The Aftermath of the Templars

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)

Organizer Name

Theresa M. Vann

Organizer Affiliation

St. John's Univ.

Presider Name

Matthew Z. Heintzelman

Presider Affiliation

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Paper Title 1

Memories of the Templars in Britain: Templar Charters in Hospitaller Records after the Dissolution of the Templars

Presenter 1 Name

Helen J. Nicholson

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Cardiff Univ.

Paper Title 2

Seeking Lost Templars in Hospitaller Archives

Presenter 2 Name

Theresa M. Vann

Paper Title 3

Templars and Hospitallers during the Mastership of Fulk of Villaret

Presenter 3 Name

Paul F. Crawford

Presenter 3 Affiliation

California Univ. of Pennsylvania

Start Date

9-5-2014 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1140

Description

: Jacques de Molay, the last Master of the Order of the Temple, was burned at the stake on March 1314. Now, 700 years later, people still ask what became of the Templars. Devotees of Dan Brown are unwilling to accept the prosaic explanation that the surviving Templar knights were, along with their properties, absorbed into the Order of the Hospital. Meanwhile, concentration upon the spectacular end of the Templar Order has diverted scholarly attention from evidence that their sometime rivals, the Order of the Hospital, anticipated a similar catastrophe. This panel will explore the scholarly evidence for the presumed absorption of the Templars into the Order of the Hospital and the Hospitallers concerns about their future.

Theresa Vann