History Quote by Michael Baigent

“The declared objective of the Templars, Guillaume de Tyre continues, was, "as far as their strength permitted, they should keep the roads and highways…

— Michael Baigent

“between 1195 and 1220, Wolfram composed his epic romance Parzival, he conferred on the Templars a most exalted status.”

— Michael Baigent

“The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.”

— Umberto Eco

“The founders of Freemasonry—whoever they were—were certainly aware of the history of the Templars, and they were clearly inspired by Templar ideals: devotion to…

— Mark E. Kolko-Rivera

“Guides were Franciscan monks, sole custodians of the holy places after 1230, who recited the history and traditions associated with each town or monument…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“In The Ante-Nicene Fathers (8 vols.) the reader will find most of the writings of the Early Church under the Pagan Empire, to the year 325.”

— George Hodges

And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove…

— Jean de Joinville

They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture…

— Umberto Eco

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered…

— Dan Brown

“Roland, the flower of chivalry, Expired at Roncevall.” Thomas Campbell. “Hero-worship endures for ever while man endures.” Carlyle. “Roland, the gode knight.” Turpin’s History…

— Jeanie Lang

“Philosophizing in medieval Latin Europe began in the eighth century, in the royal court of Charlemagne, then moved in the later ninth century to…

— John Marenbon

The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the…

— Herbert J. Muller