KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Knights Templar in Scotland
1128 - Hugh de Payen, a relative by marriage to the St Clairs of Roslin, travels to Scotland where he stays with his relatives.
Hugo de Paganis, better known by the French translation Hugues de Payens or Payns (c. 1070 – 24 May 1136), was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. In association with Bernard of Clairvaux, he created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order.
The Templars are granted land – which becomes their headquarters in Scotland at Ballontrodoch – now Temple.
1203 - The sack of Constantinople.
Important relics looted and fell into Templar hands.
The Orkney Crusade saw Scottish Templar families, including the Sinclairs, join the crusade.
Philip III the Bold & the Crusades – Library of Rickandria
1307 - 11 October, two days before the arrest of many Templar Knights, it is recorded in French Masonic history that the Templar ships leave at midnight from La Rochelle, probably heading to Scotland.
1311 - Bishop Lamberton of St. Andrews gives the Templars his protection.
William de Lamberton, sometimes modernized as William Lamberton, (died 20 May 1328) was Bishop of St Andrews from 1297 (consecrated 1298) until his death. Lamberton is renowned for his influential role during the Scottish Wars of Independence. He campaigned for the national cause under William Wallace and later Robert the Bruce. As Bishop of St Andrews, the most powerful seat in Scotland, Bishop Lamberton along with Bishop Robert Wishart of Glasgow conducted the coronation of Robert the Bruce as King Robert I. Lamberton would go on to have a vital role in the formulation of the Declaration of the Clergy 1310 and the Declaration of Arbroath which would lead to Scottish Independence. During his tenure Lamberton was excommunicated by Rome for his role in the Wars of Independence along with Robert I and the Clergy of Scotland. However, he was reconciled with the Papacy before his death.
1314 - Possibility that Knight Templars fought at Bannockburn.
1790 - Alexander Deuchar revives the order in Scotland in an attempt to re-start a new chivalry.
LINKS:
Knights of the Temple – Library of Rickandria
The Amazing Knights Templar – Library of Rickandria
A History of the Knights Templar & their Involvement with the Priory of Sion – Library of Rickandria
Mysteries of the Templars – Library of Rickandria
Knights Templar’s Saga – Library of Rickandria
