This has nothing or very little to do with the Knights Templar who were originally honest monks called the "Poor Soldiers of Christ" who became the Order of Solomon's Temple. Later the Knights Templar. The monks opened up the Order to lay people who held wealth and property. Upon entering they gave up their lands and possessions. In turn, the Knights used the money for campaigns into the Holy Land. They developed the 1st banking system (the forerunner of the Swiss Bank). A pilgrim to the Holy Land would put their money into a Templar bank at home, with no fear of being robbed (which is one of the reasons the Templars went on crusade) having no money, would bring a note from the Templars at home then, withdraw it in the Holy Land. There are thousands of documents by the Templars containing vows, real estate purchases, business acquisitions all for the sake of the crusades. The Templars' unfortunate end came from not paganism, or some alternate form or Christianity but the overspending of the King of France. He could no longer pay them, deeply in debt to many, he was informed of the Templars' true wealth, went to the Pope, who 1st refused dissolving the Order but with pressure, relented. ALL the charges were made out of whole cloth (complete fabrication). The Merovingian Dynasty were simply human, not Divine, not descended from Jesus at all. We have the entire family tree as well as a complete DNA sequence taken from a Merovingian Queen's big toe. This is nothing but DaVinci Code Mark III (since there was a (Mark II), and a bit of Zeitgeist thrown in for effect. Sorry, I have studied and researched a lot of history in my time! It is a fun show however! We like fantasy and fairytales!

@NotSure109

8 ай бұрын

You didn't disagree with the video lol. But you did admit to not understanding it!

@Thor-Orion

3 ай бұрын

The Merovingians might have been “just human.” But all the Germanic Kings of the Post-Migration period were pretty badass. Alaric, Clovis, Theodoric, Totila, etc. all handy with a sword.

@sammyrnaj

Ай бұрын

But for us, the serious history enthusiasts, we seek Truth. Your contribution is based on fact. It corresponds with my research. What have fake claims or concocted stories of MM & Jesus got to do with a noble cause? 😮

@ZackHughes

Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@WickedFelina

Ай бұрын

@@ZackHughes You are welcome!

This went from zero to sixty in really short time :D >first half: legit history >second half: wildest non-stop occultist speculation known to man

@lordmonty9421

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was searching for a good documentary to put on before bed last night and watched the opening moments of this. "Okay, looks legit," I thought, dimming the brightness and retreating under the duvet. As you say, it went from a sober history of the Knight's Templar to straight-up Ancient Aliens shit at the end, dissecting the etymology of words for no discernible reason. I've written many a rambling essay in my day, but at least I know how to stay on topic and keep it interesting. The lowest mark I got was a B in university, even when I pulled an all-nighter (which was most of the time) and just pounded it out the night before it was due. But this guy? D-. He sucks. I'm cool.

@michaelstaeheli1598

Жыл бұрын

This “documentary” is a joke. It’s pure balderdash

@markzabilla8281

Жыл бұрын

Dan Brown called. He says he wants his anti-Christian hogwash back. Dan, a word rooted in the term “dance,” and we know that the musician Prince danced on stage, and had a birthmark. Ancient Egyptians also danced, and some had birthmarks, so therefore, Dan Brown is the Egyptian god Osiris. Because, you know, hogwash history.

@randynesbit4497

11 ай бұрын

Lmao dude I had to check to make sure I was still on the video about the templars. By the time he starts talking about the merovingians and snake people/ wandering Jew this documentary lost all credibility lol

@kafon6368

11 ай бұрын

Well to be fair ... The Templars name is now surrounded by conspiracies and the occult.

All this serpent stuff strikes me as hisssterical and hissstrionic.

@OdeInWessex

6 күн бұрын

🤦‍♀

This was interesting...but i have no idea what he's going on about....I thought this was supposed to be about the history of the templars

@boblogIIIfan

8 ай бұрын

Around 13m its like it skips the whole story

@jasoncarey157

8 ай бұрын

dumb. it is

@khazmology

8 ай бұрын

This dude just begins a connecting ramble

@c.stoddard313

7 ай бұрын

​@boblogIIIfan You mean when things get interesting and go into the subjects that you will not find in every other Templar documentary? This has it's own place amongst them.

@BCSpecht89

2 ай бұрын

I agree. I bailed on this.

The driving anxiety in the musical score and the relentless commentary with innumerable loosely integrated facts leaves even the most avid listener lost in the verbiage.

@rmbc1971

Жыл бұрын

The amount of adverts is a joke

@vdussaut9182

Жыл бұрын

@@rmbc1971 that’s why I only listen to stuff like this in MiniPlayer mode

@therainbowgulag.

Жыл бұрын

Spot on

@jessiewhitman8688

Жыл бұрын

​@@rmbc1971 I dont have ads. But I don't see an issue with the doc. I just think the music could have been quieter.

@YoWhoDat

11 ай бұрын

hell ya diis is da $hit, I be avid listening 2 dis

Definitely one of my favourite parts of history to learn about. Always up for a documentary on the Knights Templar.

What a fascinating documentary! There is much more to this subject than I ever imagined.

@swiftcee266

2 ай бұрын

There is a pathway which is the foundation for all the great faiths, which pervades each one of them, rises above them, and transcends them all and that is the pathway of Love. The pathway of love, compassion and service. Love and compassion are wonderful sentiments, well that's all they bloody well are, unless you use them as the motor for action, and the action is always in helping other people less fortunate than yourself. Martin Luther King summed it up sixty years ago when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and he said ‘we have learnt to fly in the air like birds, we have yet to learn to walk on the earth like brothers’ and the objective of every single spiritual pathway in history is precisely that, to stress the brotherhood of man, the unity of the human family, and for me I don't care if people are black, brown, white, yellow, some glorious mixture in between. Male or female, young or old, straight or gay, we're all part of the same family and we have a sacred duty to care for each other. All the spiritual pathways teach this, those from the East, and those from the West. _It was summed up by a modern Sufi teacher, a wonderful man called Sheikh Ragip Frager, who wrote a beautiful book about thirty years ago called ‘Love is the Wine’, which I can recommend to anybody and in it he wrote ‘Spirituality is a river that descended to earth through Adam, may God grant him peace, it was refreshed by the great prophets like Abraham and Moses and Elijah and John the Baptist and Jesus, may God grant them peace, by the great Prophet Muhammad may his name be blessed and may God grant him peace. It is a river that knows no boundaries in space or culture or time yet sadly, but understandably every race, every creed, every culture claims it for its own. My children it is always the same river’_ So it matters very little what spiritual path you follow, because you will follow one way you'll feel comfortable. Where the terminology is familiar and the concepts are familiar, but you will be asked to develop and show means to develop exactly the same qualities of life, humility and service and love and ultimately the objective is always the same, _that is the _*_true_*_ search for the Holy Grail_

Cool documentary on schizophrenia, really gives a 7 dimensional, abstruse mino-king-child sun radiant perspective.

Watched hundreds of historic videos this one is my favourite in regards to how well it was put together.

hahaha this is the documentary version of that always sunny meme. Came to watch an actual documentary on the Templars based in some approximation of historical fact. Still it was a very fun story with some interesting notes about European (and beyond) religious history. Still a fuckload of citation needed here.

46 minutes into this and besides the very beginning I have not heard one thing about the Templars. Plus the constant stringing of ideas reminds me of Zeitgeist

@A_Eichler

10 ай бұрын

Only got 21 mins in. It turned into occultist drivel. Chronicle, you dropped the ball on this steaming pile...

@NotSure109

8 ай бұрын

It ties it back together in the end, but it really didn't need all the detail to do it. Basically the Templars discovered Christianity was derived from pre-Jewish myths and beliefs, and this was the thing they were protecting/keeping hidden, and what eventually pissed off the Catholic church and turned it against them.

@rm3950

4 ай бұрын

@@NotSure109 What are trying to say with that horrid writing of yours? Seriously, do you have any idea as to what you're trying to get at?

@NotSure109

4 ай бұрын

@@rm3950 You're telling on yourself.

Ramblings of a mad man.

Excellent! A big, "Thank you!", to all concerned.

Well, this turned demonic!😃

for anyone who wants to know more about the knights Templar, read 'legends of the knights Templar' by A.A. Grishin.

Thank you

Hardly a documentary...some facts surrounded by a web of speculation...and downright insanity

this documentary was a wild ride for the whole hour...I've never watched even a KZread Poop with a more disparate story and confusing timeline, but just as entertaining! Loved it!

@jasoncarey157

8 ай бұрын

wrong

Had very little to do with the Knights Templars. Was very very disappointed in it. Definitely it not worth watching again or even for the 1st time watching.

That was interesting. But I have to watch again. Bit confused in some bits. Saved it for a different day. Interesting. 👍👾

"Time Team" is a specific long running series in the UK. This is not affiliated with them. It is clickbaity. It is like putting a sign outside your home reading "McDonald's" inside there are 4 pinball machines and 2 chimps screeching wildly, while thrashing out blindly for fear of the bells. I guarantee, there is no burger or, side of fries for you today.

9:00 old man twerking in the background got me acting up

The cross shown in the beginning is a malteser cross and it was not the signia of the Templars but of the order of Saint John

Amazing

Great history

Seems more a job for Doctor Freud than Doctor Jung this one.

Dragon in the Chalice? NO! The Flagon with the Dragon has the pellet with the poison, the Chalice from the Palace has the brew that is True!

I mean, it's not the best put together video ever, but I did have a bit of a giggle at " huge tracts of land" 😅👍

@dougbryant5417

7 ай бұрын

A Monty Python fan.

@Thor-Orion

3 ай бұрын

The only reason to marry a woman. Huuuuuuuge… tracts of land.

thank u

I’m having trouble with the notification settings.. can’t get it to accept “all” option

So many of these claims about early Frankish leaders does not comport with recorded history. Of course I understand that this is a grail story, and is bound to be filled with fanciful tales and allusions to deep secrets. I got a laugh when the narrator said (to paraphrase) that Dagobert had secrets that people still don't know. Right, dude. It's called a secret for a reason. But I didn't expect such inaccuracies with historical fact. I guess if you're committed to telling a conspiracy legend you just have to accept whatever you're told by the creators of that tale.

@kenijonesESQ

9 ай бұрын

well said cheers

As an individual that loves history. This is very good to know about. Kuros for the author.

59:19 That's the Manner Of Melchizedek.

so in short your saying that the Templars met some other blokes who had been taking magic mushrooms and told the Templars that some bloke called jesus who supposedley went around telling people he was the son of god was actually a snake ?...i did find it interesting but i wonder if you could make it a bit more simple and explain the connection between the Templars and what it is your saying that i dont understand ?

Enjoyed this

Chronicle, if you give me more absurdities, such as this, I'm leaving you forever!

Bleeding nora !! 😊

You piqued my interest with the potential for a documentary on the templars what I got was less than ten minutes of history and almost a whole 50 minutes of conspiracy theory driven, pseudo-historical, History channel worthy garbage

_… so, why does it say “Time Team” in the title?_

I would like to know how the f*** you got a tree from a monkey

Real interesting history Too much Dan Brown silliness

@Thor-Orion

3 ай бұрын

Just look up Real Crusades History, they do a lot of TRUE history on the Templars and the rest of the Crusades era and Middle Ages.

Medieval history.....mmmm...perhaps you should have made a doco on longbows...drawing them...certainly what is done here.

What... what did i just watch? This made my head hurt. 😅

This is NOT Time Team.....

You come off so confused

The "Templar" cross you displayed in the intro is in fact a "Maltese" cross derived from the Knights of St. John (Knights Hospitallers), the other main warrior monks.

Yeah, no.

20:38 Your researches are not complete. I'm of that line and I have marks on my body to prove it. Perhaps most notably, I have a 76 on my left hand. If youre not familiar with that seal, your research is lacking.

The search for the Holy grail. Pre-dates Christianity by many years. The ancient celts had it, it was called the cauldron of plenty. The Hebrew people had it, for them it was the stone that fell from heaven. The Christian version talks about the cup that gives ever lasting life. People have gone to enormous lengths to track down one version or another of these. The most popular Christian version is the cup Jesus used at the last supper, that Joesph of Arimathea used to collect his blood after the crucifixion. First of all the cup Jesus used at the last supper was no different to the cup anyone else used at the last supper. And secondly you didn't collect blood from corpses in Jewish tradition, it was the last thing you did! The grail is a coded allegorical description of the pathway to enlightenment, it's a transformative process, it's an intellectual and spiritual change. The Templars were recognised by King Baldwin the second in somewhere around about 1118. In 1127 they came scurrying back to Europe all of them all nine, met with the King of France and then went north to Scotland to a family known as the Sinclair's of Rosslyn, another branch of the Rex Deus families and within ten years they were granted properties at such a speed that in many cases they couldn't garrison them for some time afterwards. Nearly every Rex Deus family in Europe gave them property. Within eight months of returning to Europe they had obtained through the good offices of another Rex Deus member Bernard of Clairvaux or Bernard de Fontaine to give him his real name, they had obtained papal recognition. How 9 elderly Knights were meant to protect the pilgrim routes remains a bit of a mystery as they did nothing of the sort for the first nine years. They burrowed 120ft down through solid rock below the temple Mount. What they found is still under intense speculation. From the ark of the covenant to replicas of the dead Sea scrolls, hand on heart we just don't know. It's a fascinating story and most likely will never be revealed. A couple of years after that that were granted exemption from taxes from the Church and exempted taxes from the state, they were responsible to no King, no Emperor, no Bishop, only to the Pope alone through their Grand Master. It was a degree of autonomy that has never been granted to any order before or since.

@maryellencook9528

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who thought this guy was as mad as a Hatter. His constant reference to bulls is because this video is full of it.

@swiftcee266

11 ай бұрын

@@maryellencook9528 That is your opinion dear Mary and you are entitled to it! this is based on mythology you really shouldn't take this literally.

@maryellencook9528

11 ай бұрын

@@swiftcee266 I don't take it literally.

@swiftcee266

8 ай бұрын

​@maryellencook9528 well, may I ask thy, why are you here? To what are you hoping to gain?

@maggiemae7539

6 ай бұрын

Jesus is the Holy Grail!!

Idk where you got the bit about Levites coming from the word leviathan but etymologically speaking there is no basis for that, the root word which it derives from (Levite) is Lava, which means to join or be joined, to borrow or cause to borrow (TWOT reference 1087,1088) and the word Levi according to Strong’s H3881, means joined to and is the name of Jacobs third son. The word leviathan uses the same root word Lava but that in no way means Levi is a derivative of leviathan if the root word Lava came first. That means leviathan was pulled from lava which only means to be joined. This whole concept of loosely connecting words based on similar sounding is a method of the world wide church of God because God expressly forbids the worship of pagan idols and levites weren’t formed until after the law was given so what in the good name of the Lord are you talking about? This whole documentary was lacking in historical evidence and was based on opinions and presuppositions. I seriously question the legitimacy now of this channel and it’s ability to research thoroughly

Bonkers theories

Respect

@nnightuk

8 ай бұрын

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@nnightuk

8 ай бұрын

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Half-goat half fish aka half-bull half fish is Capricorn, which is January, the actual month Jesus was born.

How is this "Time Team?"

13:22 The moment a mate dropped by with some shrooms and they decided to just keep writing the documentary 😂

@gray_mara

26 күн бұрын

Wai, wait, wait, lol. 20:50 Shows a statue of Olav Tryggvason of Norway while ranting about the Merovingians. Wrong country, dudes. He's a bit far North.

@gray_mara

26 күн бұрын

The red Cross is a universal symbol of the snake. Lol. Not as universal as you might think.

@gray_mara

26 күн бұрын

OoOoO, that etymology is sure reaching. I'd love to see this guy do his family tree. I bet he's related to the Merovingians.

"... HUGE tracts of Land ...."

what a croc 🤦‍♀

He makes many unsupported leaps

I thought this channel presented actual history. Very disappointing.

@hwebb2387

10 ай бұрын

Explain?

I wish there was a more in depth episode about the Merovingian Kings and their "connection" to Mary Magdalene(sp).

@Thor-Orion

3 ай бұрын

That’s some Dan Brown nonsense. I’m related to the Merovingians (most Europeans alive today are, this isn’t some grand claim) and they’re just Germanics of the post-migration period. I’m mostly Gothic, but Theodoric married Clovis’ sister named Audofleda and they had a daughter together and one of her descendants married the later king Totila and the children from the marriage were spirited away north of the Alps after Totila and Teia’s deaths.

helpful...although could be more accurate or something - could have a part 2... am suppose

Turn to the Shuhborough Inscription.

18:15 What source is this coming from? The Carolingian's were the Holy Roman Emperors with Charlemagne being the first crowned by the Pope in 800. The Merovingians were long gone from ruling by then.

@Thor-Orion

3 ай бұрын

Bertrada (Charlemagne’s mother) was a Merovingian. Pepin’s father Charles Martel was a national hero which lead to great marriage prospects for his son Pepin.

24:15 Its the Moon in Taurus and Sun in Aries that makes one of the Spiritual Brotherhood. 644, The Order Of Osiris.

There is no greater archetype than the warrior monk

@KernowekTim

9 ай бұрын

True.

This is not a good doco in the sense that it really dosnt give a full account of the financial and true meaning of the knights templars and how they ran their institution,perhaps at some stage someone will tell their true story.

@swiftcee266

Жыл бұрын

What do you need to know?

Wtf did I just try to watch…

Hi Mate. You know why my City Castelo Branco (Portugal) it was the templar capital from the 3 kingdoms Portugal Leão and Castela for 99 Years? Thanks

This is very nice ❤🎉🎉,🌹🌹no sugarcoating 😂😂

Pheew, mate … what have you been smoking? And what happened to tripods? The shaky, jumpy, flickery footage is most annoying.

Nonsense 😂 here is an idea for a future documentary: pyramids, Illuminati, Buddha, sacred cows, the moon, tales of la Sallona and other female ghosts, the chupacabras, Atlantis…and Go!!

I’m not convinced

The content is excellent, but the shaky-cam footage is very offputting

@glauvie

Жыл бұрын

And the loud music makes it sound like the video is perpetually ending.

Drops Templar's in the first ten min then turns into Joe Rogan on DMT.

As a post-graduate historian, this man is full of it. He makes claims without evidence. What a pawn, and a waste of time.

Knights Templar: The Rise And Fall Of The Mysterious Warrior Monks | Knights Templar | Time Team 0737am 11.7.23 the templers and carlos castenada being the two subjects i studiously boned up on when i first joined the library in rochdale as a youing kid... very interesting. as to whether or not they have their facts right re: templers.... who knows? nowadays middle eastern strife is probably still based within these templer crusade tales... you should go watch the film: man who would be king. as for carlos castenada - again, very interesting... no idea if anyone other than evil dead tv series referenced that mescal kiddie. horse shoe in aboriginal art means: man....

nope... a lot of speculation and not real research...and the video is unwatchable due to amateur shaky-camera syndrome

Whatever this is, it ain't a documentary about the history of the Knights Templar

Until this day we never knew what happened to the knight Templar with nipple tassels and ass less champs

We can glaze over the "accusations" thrown towards the Templars and move on to the convoluted story about the holy grail or we can actually draw some direct links. The final Grandmaster of the Templars was Jaques De Molay. He was burned at the stake with other Templar leaders because they were required to denounce Jesus as part of the initiation ceremony, this is also true at the to obtain the highest degrees in Freemasonry. The Freemasons also named their youth society De Molay after that same Grandmaster. We could go on and on but even just taking a look at the Templar's position in the world at the time and only imagine what they were getting involved in. A secret society that is the only international bank who are also above the law.

What a load of bunk.

It seems like this is all being interpreted with a postmodern lens. Ancients were sophisticated enough to know that a snake can represent aspects of a monotheistic god without literally worshipping snakes or any other animals.

Childeric I is my 40th great-grandfather. Saint Dagobert II 645-679 was an uncle. He wasn't popular.

It's really strange how the narrator kept mispronouncing "retook" as "took". The Christians didn't take anything from the Muslims. Islam is 600 years younger than Christianity and before the Muslims took the holy land it came under Christian control when the Roman empire converted to Christianity from paganism. Judea was a Roman province. It was under Roman rule when Christians were still a persecuted minority that the Jewish temple was destroyed and the Jews, who had already massacres the natives of that region centuries before were exiled. How did you therefore workout that the crusades were aggressive and not reactionary? So when Muslims invade that's ok but if a Christian reacts they're taking from the Muslims? That's the same logic as manifest destiny. Funny how it works out differently for Amerindians though ay? If you're willing to lie about such easily provable history, I assume so you don't have an aeroplane flown into your face or get beheaded, then none of your documentary can be trusted. The thinness of your neck and forked tongue might prevent you telling any accurate history at all.

@gray_mara

26 күн бұрын

They have to keep repeating their lies until people believe them. The way information is filtered online these days, it won't be long before real history is forgotten. They've been pushing this narrative so long that even some scholars believe that the Crusaders were the unprovoked aggressors against a peaceful, ecumenical, tolerant nation.

Judging from how many gnostic people seem to be dissatisfied this documentary hits a sweet spot, also showing perfectly how the templars ended up on the stakes. After the introduction of the serpent worship I began to doubt the integrity because of the resemblence to pseudo science (especially when I hear about Anunnaki) but you're only pointing out that those similarities did exist and the notion that humans like to connect the dots as an explanation on how the Templars could have had a motivation to mix symbols and other heresy that probably led to their downfall. Can't deny that this is some food for thought and the shroom example on how shared symbols populate isolated places is more plausible than "beavers everywhere build the same dams" or aliens imho.

@danaberg6354

6 ай бұрын

The original Christians were Gnostics. "Saint" Paul was the spouter of lies and betrayed the movement. Jesus would likely be horrified by what the movement/faith in his name became.

An almost completely incoherent rambling of unrelated historic facts, random snippets of fairy tales, conspiracy theories, wild interpretations with no substantiation & "I heard it from a guy I knew." 🤦‍♂️

Ridiculous amount of adverts.

Here we will debunk myth….with speculation and modern day analysis from stories and maybes

The U shape in Aboriginal art represents a person not a horse

Ohhh, this guy. Phillip gardiner I think? I like him. Gives whole new meaning to the idea of playing fast and loose with history. He’s really into ophite/serpent worship which id like to know more about; but the closest he comes to providing that knowledge is an interview in which he just says “it’s in Africa and Europe and blah blah blah” without so much as a captioned picture. Still, I watch all his stuff. Mostly hoping to find this one documentary about catholic cathedrals that talks about how many are built on or feature water and the esoteric meaning behind alternating 3and4 arch archways and stuff….

The pagan origins of Christianity , many prophets one message 🌼 very informative 👍

@nenabunena

6 ай бұрын

LoL you're so guillible

Underneath the temple of the mount, there is a great sign there, but they’re not allowed to dig because of it. That is the secret to and the Muslims will not allow any archaeological digging underneath the site.

your muzique sound track is brilliant!

Why wouldn't the Red Cross have my blood

Good Men among the Imposters of Good Men. Look Around,which are You.

@chrisnelson76

Жыл бұрын

When playing poker look around the table and try to find the sucker, if u cant find them its probably you lol

So the narrators of these myths were high? 😅

I was looking to learn more about the templars and after about 15 minutes of generic infomation it goes into madness and mythology that has no relevance. What's worse is that this exact same video is on about 5 different channels.

Did I just watch this same doc on a different History Hits-affiliated channel? Mmm, duplicate content.

Started OK, then quickly turned into rubbish