XXIII. CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE: THE MILITARY ORDERS
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Hugh de Payens & Brother Gerard

King Baldwin II

Al Aqsa mosque

“Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon”

Council of Troyes

Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux

Cistercian Rule

Pope Honorius II

Pope Innocent II “consecrated their hands to God in the blood of the unbeliever.”

Evard des Barres

King Alphonso I of Aragon

King Louis VII of France

Ville Neuve du Temple

“sergeants”

frères casaliers

frères de métiers

Hospital of St. John

St. Mary of the Latins … Amalfi

Godfrey de Bouillon

Apulia, Greece, Constantinople, Anatolia, Jerusalem

Amalfi by see to Jaffa

Marseilles

Pope Pascal II:  Hospitallers of Saint John

Raymond du Puy

Battle of Ascalon

Bethgibilin

Church of the Holy Sepluchar

Acre, St. Gilles, Aragon

Edessa

Saladin

Uncle Gaudry

Cardinal Harmeric:  It is not fitting that noisy and troublesome frogs should come out of their marshes and trouble the Holy See and the Cardinals.

Now, illustrious Harmeric, if you so wished, who would have been more capable from freeing me from the necessity of assisting at the council than yourself?  Forbid those noisy troublesome frogs to come out of their holes, to leave the marshes … Then your friend will no longer be exposed to the accusations of pride and presumption.”

Abbot Suger of St. Denis

Count Theobald of Champagne

Eleanor of Aquitaine