The Templars: The Secret History Revealed by Barbara Frale

Author:Barbara Frale [Frale, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cults, History, Nonfiction, Retail, World
ISBN: 9781628721072
Google: KrQtAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

, which were extended by successive pontiffs, had clothed the Temple with political and legal autonomy. High-ranking clerics in the areas where the order’s most important houses were located were jealous of the warrior-monks’ complete independence from the church hierarchy. Although the Templars were exempt from taxation, the Western branch of the order periodically paid the church one-tenth of its income as a tithe, which in the era of the crusades was fun-neled by the pope back into the military efforts in the East. A donation to the Temple amounted to a donation to the crusades.

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