Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

Author:Thomas Keightley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser Conari
Published: 2016-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Seal of the Templars.

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* The other writers of that century agree in the account given above. Brompton's authority has been preferred by some modern writers, who probably wished to pay their court to the order of Malta.

* Wilken L. 28, gives 1135 as the year in which this piece was written.

* See p. 187. Sir W. Scott describe his Templar in Ivanhoe, as wearing a white mantle with a black Cross of eight points. The original Cross of the Hospitallers, we may observe, had not eight points. That of the order of Malta was of this form.

† Bauseant, or Bausant, was, in old French, a piebald horse, or a horse marked white and black. Ducange, Roquefort. The word is still preserved with its original meaning in the Scotch dialect, in the form Bawsent:

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