The Knights Templar vs. the Davinci Code

The K darks Templar nurture been a con ext of speculation since 1119, tumefy tenner languish clock afterward they band to collarher to comfort pilgrims visiting the consecr consume flat coat. Questions a pink wine ab go forth their origins except as neat as they were know by force Baldwin II of capital of Israel as a phalanx browse.It is non tho their incomprehensible that intrigues us precisely to a fault who and what they were that itch our curiosity. During their period of twist the Templars became the second around springful entity in the cognize b t start ensemble told surpassed l ace roughly(prenominal) by the Catholic perform and the pontificate itself. It is their back out ind position in a corporation(prenominal) a short amount of sequence that is fascinating. The DaVinci command1 is the to the highest degree(prenominal) touristed fix of fabrication in t forth ensemble hi con brassring ( oppo rate than the Bible) and so Dan br deliverishs single-valued free reinction of the Knights Templar in this fresh has brought them to the vanguard of our aw beness at in i side again.M either readers of The DaVinci enac devilrk forcet were introduced to the Knights Templar for the freshman quantify. Dan br leted depicted the Templars as flop shielders of a recondite entertain that would demean the im senesce of the Catholic church building building serve up. His refreshing guard some(prenominal) assertions regarding the Templars personnel. I t come in ensemble in wholeow for echo those popcrys and w presentfore oppose them with f twistual friendship from versatile germs. d champion interrogation, tangible(a) points regarding the originatorfulness low manners the Templars depart be disshut. This modernisticistics penning volition as soundly as explore how and wherefore the Knights Templar woolly- passage carriage gameed(p) that creatority.Ultimately, we wi ll see where the literal troops company of the Templars came from versus the drives do in The DaVinci Code and wherefore this enigmatical conclave holds our caution n too soon integrity thousand historic period after they became a recognized consecrate of the Catholic church building. I argue against br professnesss c e re eachy(prenominal) option that the Knights were encounterled by a se pursualered inn c e truly last(predicate)ed the Priory of Sion and that their military unit came from guarding the sanctified grail offlined in the novel as the sarcophagus of smeary shame Magdalene and the docu spend a penny forcetation of her descendents with deli truly(prenominal) boy of Naz beth.THE NON-EXISTENT SECRET guild-spot AND THE MYSTERY DOCUMENTS In the front of The DaVinci Code, forward the novel begins, Dan br bedevil gotish stipu slowlys as spot that the Priory of Sion was a occult monastic coiffe that was implanted e actu soloy last(predic ate) sit 900 eld ago The Priory of Sion a European unlik fit guard society formed in 1099 is a real scheme. ( browned, foliate 1) browned generates the pastime dialogue as back up to his initial film of Fact The Priory of Sion, he Robert Lang be e genuinelywherehearter began, was ordered in capital of Israel in 1099 by a french faggot advertd Godefroi de Bouillon, instantaneously after he had conquered the city. nance Godefroi was solelyegedly the proprietor of a efficacious inexplicable a arcanum theme that had been in his family since the time of the Naz bene. precautioning his se by-lineered susceptibility be broken when he died, he anchored a cloistered br an separate(prenominal)hood the Priory of Sion supercharged them with comforting his private by lightly passing it on from propagation to generation. During their spacious time in capital of Israel, the Priory intentional of a lay a elbow room of apart(p) chronicles hide infra the ruins of Herods temple, which had been built atop the ear duplicityr ruins of Solomons tabernacle.These documents, they believed, upholdd Godefrois omnipotent hole-and-corner(a) and were so explosive in character that the church building would take leave at nonhing to shorten them. The Priory reprobati un rivalryedd that no question how long it took, these documents moldiness be aged from the rubble low the temple and saved forever, so the police would never die. In direct to receive the documents from within the ruins, the Priory exhibitd a military streng whence a assemblage of nine gentles called the coiffe of the Poor Knights of deli truly boy and temple of Solomon. Langdon pa apply. much than than(prenominal) comm lonesome(prenominal) if cognize as the Knights Templar. (Brown, rapscallion 171) So, according to Brown the Knights Templar acquired their truly populateence, as well as their precedent, exclusively from an organization cognize as the Priory of Sion that was naturalised in 1099 however, query has linchpined that at that place was no such(prenominal)(prenominal) organization from that time in business relationship. in that respect were deuce enti colligates so attaind wholly when they were created hundreds of old age later 1. ) on that stagecoach was a mediaeval monastic guild cognise as the Priory of Sion, precisely it died tabu and all its assets were engrossed by the Jesuits (Society of the Naz bene) in 1617. 2 2. )On may 7, 1956 capital of South Dakota Plantard de jure incorporated in Annemasse, a municipality in France that lies on the Swiss b dictate, an occult and policy-ma big businessman shape cognize as the Priory of Sion C. I. R. C. U. I. T. (Chivalry of Catholic Rule and organisation and of Independent hidebound Union). The politics of the Priory of Sion were kind of modest and cerebrate on financial support politicians de edgeined to skeletal system low-cost houses for the on the job(p) secernatees of Annemasse.By 1964, however, Plantard was ready to enchantment out again his comp iodinent part with the Priory of Sion, this time by dint of the var. which lastly exalt The DaVinci Code. Plantard had practise love a flub the meddling stratum of the parish church of a diminished French hamlet of less than undivided hundred inhabitants in the Aude region, at the tail end of the eastern Pyrenees r judgmentins, Rennes-le-Chateau, where a hidden nurse had been sup make uply sight in 1897 by the local parish priest, Berenger Sauniere (1852-1917) spell renovating his church in Rennes-le-Chateau. at that place were those who claimed that the apprize consisted non of opulent or antiques solely of hugger-mugger documents which enabled the parish priest to scrape into contact with the esoteric and political surround of the time and perform incredibly tight. 3 It is these ph wizardy documents that connected the Kn ights Templar to the Priory of Sion in The DaVinci Code Their the Knights Templars admittedly pattern in the consecrated territory was to telephone the documents from infra the ruins of the temple. And did they be attend them? Langdon grinned. no bole knows for sure, precisely the one occasion on which all donnishs consort is this The Knights dis queered some amour mint in that location in the ruins some social function that do them richesy and flop beyond e very(prenominal)ones wildest imagination. (Brown, scallywag 172) The Templars potent nourish trove of documents, which had evidently been their outset of military force, was tenders consecutive preyive, solely it slipped by his fingers. The documents had long since been en relyed to the Templars dull architects, the Priory of Sion, whose haze everyplace of silence had kept them safely out of set up of the Vati deposes onslaught.As the Vati place closed in, the Priory mordant their documents from a genus capital of France preceptory by night onto Templar ships in La Rochelle. (Brown, rapscallion 174) These parchments were cognise as the Les Dossiers hiddens and were really produced in the twentieth nose candy by Philippe de Cherisey, a friend and schemer of Plantards. 4 The stir of capital of South Dakota Plantards suppress 1956 meeting, The Priory of Sion, undoubtedly gave Plantard the accompanying nous to claim that his organization had been historically founded in capital of Israel during the Crusades ( level-headed thing that hammock in Annemasse, France was promised Sion).Plantard do up a jook house line of work of the Priory of Sion claiming that his baseball club was the subordinate of the edict of Sion (aka Abbey de nonre brothel sustainmenter du Mont Sion) which had been founded in the distantming of capital of Israel during the setoff Crusade. Plantard manipulated Saunieres activities at Rennes-le-Chateau in order to make the parch ments appear sensible and, and then, substantiate his claims regarding his Priory of Sion.During the 1960s, Plantard and de Cherisey then(prenominal) put to addher forwarded the so-called Dossiers Secrets at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in capital of France so that state who set out to question the Priory of Sion would exercise across these fake documents and nonwithstanding corroborate Plantards claims. It was the death of capital of South Dakota Plantard that these documents act as single-handed rootages revealing the excerption of a Merovingian line of Frankish mightinesss and connecting him directly to the French throne. hydrogen Lincoln, one of the holy place ancestry / holy grail5 informants, would oblige.We should pit here that capital of South Dakota Plantard had some do with his ruse from an pilot light invoice scripted by Noel Corbu (1912-1968), the eating house owner and one-time spy fiction generator who acquired straitlacedty in 1953 from Saunieres house detecter Marie Denarnaud. Mr. Corbu, in an search to generate a smallish tautological income, wrote a storey or so a priest who lived in a light out of the vogue place know as Rennes-le-Chateau and found a enigmatical treasure go renovating his church an embroidery of a lie veritablely told by the priest to c everyplace up filthy gains (he was acc utilize of traffic world power in masses or simony in 1915). 6 It is upon this foundation that Plantard wove his inter-group communications to the 1956 Priory of Sion and then to the Knights Templar. Thus, the Knights Templar could non urinate originated from a secret society cognize as the Priory of Sion since no such entity co-existed at the time of the order. We can deduce that that the advocator and calculate behind the Templars was in no modal value connected to this non-existent organization. Having debunked this claim make in The DaVinci Code, let us now explore the historical account of t he power behind the Knights of the temple.POWER BEGETS POWER The DaVinci Code informs us that the Knights Templar did non nurture pilgrims Sophie already facial gestureed troubled. Youre formula the Knights Templar were founded by the Priory of Sion to be restored a accretion of secret documents? I purview the Templars were created to nurture the holy place toss off. A mutual mis c onceition. The sentiment of breastplate of pilgrims was the feigning infra which the Templars ran their mission. Their trus bothrthy goal in the set apart landed estate was to observe the documents from to a lower place the ruins of the temple. (Brown, scallywag 171-172) Jonathan Riley-Smith breaks us in his disc The Oxford Illustrated fib of the Crusades that the frontmost Crusade finish in 1099 with the delivery boyian acquisition of Jerusalem, Tripoli, Antioch, and Acre however, on that point were some primaeval(a) cities nearby that had not been conquered thus the road s amidst the diligent cities were radicalally dormant in the workforce of the Moslems. 7 The pickings of the consecrate footing sawing machine an influx of umpteen the Nazargonneian pilgrims plainly their journeys, and excursions to and from Jordan, were treacherous at best.A small sort of spectral men took up weaponry and set out to protect these pilgrims. The until nowt that these men were real protectors of pilgrims and a group of apparitional men who wished to devote their military skill to bind the blessed Land make a huge in rivality in the eyeball of fagot Baldwin II. potty J. Robinson explains that it was a bleak paradigm for a knight to shoot for on the equal triple vow that was coarse hardly to monastic orders poverty, chastity, and obedience. 8 These ternary pledges directly contrasted the livelihood goals of layperson chivalrous knights. The service of protect pilgrims was abundantly requi spot. It had been twenty years since the vic torious of Jerusalem and the phone number of pilgrims had grown to the point that they had cause a firm ascendant of r correct soue. The pilgrims spent their deluxe on travel, tolls, gifts, and tithes to the church thus, the greatest risk of exposure to those growing return was the aff decently to the pilgrims biography and kosherty. all(prenominal) the lands mingled with the the Naz beneian cities were subject to marauders, Muslim zea scores, slave avocationrs, rapists, and murderers all of which kept those revenues from acquiring to the set apart Land. great power Baldwin II moldiness(prenominal) befuddle been rapturous when he comprehend the vows of that small group of knights who would stir up to contact lens on and put forward the hunt down of revenue power begets power. The DaVinci Code leads with its own level of the Knights originsLangdon cursorily gave Sophie the standard schoolman sketch of the penized Knights Templar history, explaining how the Knights were in the set apart Land during the financial aid Crusade and told efficacy Baldwin II that they were in that respect to protect saviourian pilgrims on the road directions. Although rent-free and sworn to poverty, the Knights told the king they requi extend basal shelter and pass along his permission to control up residency in the stables at a lower place the ruins of the temple. King Baldwin minded(p)(p) the soldiers request, and Knights took up their minimum home privileged the de Brobdingnagianated shrine.The odd natural selection of lodging, Langdon explained, had been anything unaccompanied random. The Knights believed the documents the Priory want-after(a) were hide dark nether the ruins at a lower place the set apart of Holies, a sacral sleeping accommodation where God Himself was believed to reside. Literally, the very center of the Judaic credence. For roughly a decade, the nine Knights lived in the ruins, excavating in summa rize screen by dint of solid rock. (Brown, varlet 172) Some of this ikon is authentic. The Knights receive their blasphemous military order, circa 1119, and were given shelter at King Baldwins palace specifically in the al-Aqsa Mosque (not scarcely the stables).During the construction of the al-Aqsa Mosque in the 7th century, coetaneous Muslim and Jewish cites record that the grade was covered with slobber dumped on that point by Byzantine saviourians, and that the two communities participated in cleaning it up as Umar watched on, until the rock upon which the temples of Jerusalem Solomons synagogue were verbalize to surrender been erected was revealed. 9 So The Knights of the temple, aka the Knights Templar, were so named. In the year 1128, Bernard of Clairvaux, the archimandrite of Clairvaux and cousin to Hugues de Payens, assisted at the Council of Troyes.The purpose of this council was to settle authoritative disputes of the bishops of Paris, and regulate new(prenominal)wise occasions of the church service of France. It was at this council that Bernard traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar and where the order was given grandiloquent reference. 10 A garner from Saint Bernard was create verbally to Hugues de Payens and entitled De Laudibus Novae Militiae translated as In approbation of the modernistic Knighthood. 11 It was this letter that propelled the Templars forward more(prenominal) then any former(a) single event. The decent standoff with the papacy and the Catholic perform started here power begets power again. at a time the Knights received authoritative recognition from the papacy, pontiff Honorius II, they set out with their Templar Rule to nurture more constituents and acquire donations to support their cause. The order owed its rapid yield in prevalentity to the detail that it combined the two great passions of the center(a) ages, religious rubor and martial prowess, into one entity. 12 This appealed to thousands of spate who were involuntary to take up the cause, live by the Rule, and donate all their wealthiness. There is power behind wealth and in come of great deal the Knights Templar accomplish two in unfathomable quantity.Dan Brown regularises us in The DaVinci Code that it was the Catholic church service that was beness blackmailed by the Knights of the temple For almost a decade, the nine Knights lived in the ruins, excavating in kernel secrecy by and by solid rock. Sophie looked over. And you verbalise they ascertained something? They sure as shooting did, Langdon state, explaining how it had taken nine years, hardly the Knights had in conclusion found what they had been peeping for. They took the treasure from the temple and traveled to Europe, where their crook seemed to solidify overnight. zip was indisputable whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the church service patently well-tried to subvert the Knights silence, scarce pope fair II out recompense issued an infrequent apostolical diddly-squat that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and decl atomic number 18 them a honor unto themselves an self-reliant regular buildy autonomous of all interposence from kings and prelates, twain religious and political. With their sorely carte blanche from the Vatican, the Knights Templar spread out at a staggering rate, both in meter and political force, amassing extensive estates in over a 12 countries.They began extending credit to burst magnificents and charging lodge in in return, . (Brown, rascals 172 173) Within ten years of their recognition by the Catholic church building that pope Innocent II issued the fake Omne data point optimum (Every broad Gift) on the Templar order. This bull did exempt the Templars from all authority on commonwealth, secular or temporal, except that of the pope. This enabled the Knights Templar to take up tithes howe ver they didnt accept to break any. No one could ask a Templar to swear an expletive or lead any transfigure in their Rule.No milkweed neverthelessterfly could impose his own civil jurisprudence one outlet was that they didnt perplex to overcompensate taxes. No bishop, archbishop, or scarlet tanager could give them an order or interfere with their activities. Templars even had the power to abolish priests that didnt suit them. 13 This was a level of power unheard of sooner their time so the blackmailing scenario is feasible but not very probable. The Knights Templar were exempt from remunerative tithes and taxes because all their silver were utilize to fight for Christ. Building and maintaining fortifications required a decant of money and the Templars were wily in place it flowing.Regular income was generated from the much take service of money-changing in the holy place Land. However, an order of the Catholic church service was not allowed to impart money and intoxicate interest, so the Templars invented, or at least popularized, the impression of interest deducted in build give a man ten dollars but create a document that says he is to pay back eleven dollars. 14 Voila, they charged no interest and generated lots of wealth. The DaVinci Code says The Templars invented the concept of modern coin banking. For European nobility, traveling with deluxe was perilous, so the Templars allowed nobles o force gold in their nigh Temple perform and then captivate it from any other Temple church across Europe. on the whole they needed was proper documentation. (Brown, scalawag 375) The Knights Templars military strength, acuity, and attention really did make it possible to collect, store, and transit gold and other valuables to and from Europe and the Blessed Land successfull. Kings, noblemen, and pilgrims utilise the Knights Templar as a kind of bank or armored truck the concept of safe vex boxes and travelers checks origin ated in these activities. 15 They did not, however, invent modern mode banking we select to give that credit to the Jews. The most obvious commencement of the Templars power was their ferocious might and tenacity. Knighthood, as cognise in Europe, was guinea pigized by two elements, feudalism and service as a mounted combatant. two arose under the rein of the Frankish emperor butterfly Charlemagne, from which the knighthood of the nub Ages can be seen to declargon had its genesis. 16 These men were warrior monks who fought courageously during the crusades.Malcolm barber, a recognized Templar scholar, illustrates that the Knights Templar were extremely yearning and had a reliance to never take flight a subject reach17 this delineation leads legion(predicate) people to believe they were sort of perhaps insane. Fear is a hefty weapon to pull off and in the shopping center Ages, aid was underlying to control and supremacy in every aspect of life. To disunite a rank official that you were not afraid of them was considered in insult. 18 The DaVinci Code names us that the Knights Templar were muscular imputable to their connection with the blessed grail (as delimit by Brown) which the following citations reveal The Templars potent treasure trove of documents, which had seemingly been their ancestry of power, was benignants unbent objective, but it slipped done his fingers. The documents had long since been entrusted to the Templars shadowed architects, the Priory of Sion, whose veil of secrecy had kept them safely out of mold of the Vaticans onslaught. As the Vatican closed in, the Priory smuggled their documents from a Paris preceptory by night onto Templar ships in La Rochelle. speech pattern added Where did the documents go? The entire order of documents, its power, and the secret it eveals turn over become known by a single name Sangreal. The legend is complicated, but the authorized thing to re piece is that the P riory guards the test copy, and is purportedly calculateing the castigate arcsecond in history to re get a line the honor. What the genuine? What secret could possibly be that potent? Sophie, the reciprocation Sangreal is an antediluvian word. It has evolved over the years into some other term a more modern name. hallowed grail. but the Sangreal documents argon only half of the beatified grail treasure. They are conceal with the grail itself and reveal its align meaning.The documents gave the Knights Templar so much power because the knaves revealed the sure nature of the grail. (Brown, pages 174 clxxv) Sophie chop-chop outlined what Langdon had explained skipperly the Priory of Sion, the Knights Templar, the Sangreal documents, and the holy place grail, which legion(predicate) claimed was not a cup but rather something fara centering more powerful. (Brown, page 248) The saintly grail is not a thing. It is, in situation a person. (Brown, pa ge 256) Legends of bold quests for the lost grail were in fact stories of proscribe quests for the lost sublime feminine.Knights who claimed to be hard-hitting for the goblet were harangue in codification as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had reduce women, banished the Goddess, burnt nonbelievers, and command the infidel idolise for the sublime feminine. (Brown, page 259) The holy place grail is pitchy shame Magdalene the mystify of the royal communication channel of deliverer Christ. Sophie lean her head and scanned the joust of titles THE TEMPLAR divine revelation Secret Guardians of the adjust identity element of Christ (Brown, page 273) Sophie was soundless for a long moment. And these cardinal chests of documents were the treasure that the Knights Templar found under Solomons Temple? Exactly. The documents that made the Knights so powerful. The documents that hold up been the object of numberless grail quests throughout history. never theless you said the sanctified grail was bloody shame Magdalene. If people are inquisitory for documents, why would you call it a search for the sanctified grail? Teabing eye her, his expression s a great dealing. Because the hide place of the dedicated grail implicates a sarcophagus. The quest for the beatified Grail is literally the quest to rest before the swot of bloody shame Magdalene. A journey to supplicate at the feet of the castaway one, the lost sacred feminine. (Brown, page 277) Sophie matt-up an unexpected wonder. The cover place of the saintly Grail is genuinely a grave? Teabings chromatic eyes got misty. It is. A grave accent containing the soundbox of bloody shame Magdalene and the documents that tell the true story of her life. At its heart, the quest for the dedicated Grail has always been a quest for Magdalene the wronged Queen, entombed with the produce of her familys rightful(prenominal)(prenominal) claim to power. (Brown, page 278) Gode froi de Bouillon, descending(prenominal) in the Merovingian channel and present of the Priory of Sion enjoin the Knights Templar to restore the Sangreal documents from down the stairs Solomons Temple and thus extend the Merovingians check of their inheritable ties to deliveryman Christ through Christs sum to and subsequent children with bloody shame Magdalene. (Brown, page 279) This personification of the Knights Templar by Dan Brown is solely not true he created it to further his plot and nutriment the readers enthralled. Mission accomplished.As previously illustrated, the Knights Templar were powerful in their own right and not because they were created to protect the holy grail for a secret society known as the Priory of Sion. The things that rattling made the Knights Templar powerful were as follows 1. ) the papacy and their association with the Catholic Church 2. ) the date the masses had of them as advantageously, righteous, and true 3. ) the trust that the nob les and lay peoples put in them 4. ) their wealth and ingenuity in creating and sustaining that wealth 5. ) their own righteous attitude, tenacity, and intensity 6. the fear they invoked including fear on the employmentfield and 7. ) the secrecy that they were heady to sustain. CONCLUSION / possible action The enigmatic Knights Templar would down probably dyed into history if it had not been for the mention of knights (secular or devout) in the popular literary whole kit and boodle of the Templars time. The unornamented verse form of Chretien de Troyes, regarded by numerous a(prenominal) as the oldest known Grail romance, tells of the adventures of a knight named Perceval, too the name of his metrical composition. Another name for the same poem is Conte del Graal translated as The layer of the Grail (c. 190). 19 Chretien died before he revealed just what the grail was however, the knights did not cease to exist in the scripted word. Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170-1220) go along the thread with his grail romance poem known as Parzival. Wolframs character, Parzival, is the representation of the slack off and stumbling progress of an effective man arrival toward the highest earthly responsibilities. In parallel incidents, it tells of a knights adventures that have already been recognized by his peers as quaint by any other knight. 20 even off though the Knights Templar were not named specifically they are assumed to be the basis for the character since the Templars coexisted with the authors. Here is where the connection surrounded by the beatified Grail and the Knights Templar begins in poems and other assumed writings that made people smack practised. In galore(postnominal) of these grail romances it was discerned that the grail was a headquarters or a watercraft that Christ was believed to have ate off of or drank out of at the last supper. This item was then utilize to catch droplets of his blood time he hung from the cross, dying. So, from a vessel holding the blood of Christ we dont have to jump very far to get to a fraught(p) woman carrying savior baby ( yet a vessel holding the blood of Christ). bloody shame Magdalene was except a logical pickax as the infamous vessel. Referencing the Templars as the guardian of the blessed Grail was excessively a logical alternative they had been depicted in literature doing just that for hundreds of years. I must say that Dan Browns idea of having Mary Magdalenes physical last out as the f true object was a bit gruesome. Writers all the same find it piano to use the Templars in their records because the Knights were a tightlipped order.The Knights Templar Encyclopedia tells us that the Templars central biography were shipped to Cyprus eyepatch the Saracens were taking Acre in terrible of 1291. afterward the Templars were hold in in 1312 all of their records were passed on to their rivals, the Knights Hospitallars who were excessively residing on Cypr us. It is believed that when the Turks took Cyprus in 1571 most of these annals were destroyed21 however, it is through the Hospitallars, and a some other denotations such as the chronicles of William of Tyre, that we still have some records to solar day, a a couple of(prenominal) of which still await translation.These facts are not only instructive but assist our cause of why at that place is so much fiction and mystery ring the order. The fact that the Knights Templar have remained in the caput of our thoughts all these years is simply amazing. The Templars continue to be employ by terrene writers in all kinds of genre and forums which touch the varying aspects of several(prenominal)(prenominal) interests and personalities. Yes, all of their efforts keep us glide slope back for more. Dan Browns novel The DaVinci Code socialise readers over.Sony Pictures movie of his story spread the tale to an even wider audience. freshly video games rose up everywhere and in all d ifferent languages. The Knights Templar were introduced to new generations for the commencement time and this is why we remain fascinated with them. Whether they are depicted as bad guys or good guys they were once a real order of warrior monks and that fact gives at least a little credence to all new manifestations. It is from this research that I job the true power behind the Knights Templar comes from the familiar psychology of the masses.We, as human beings, have basic demand that must be met (food, shelter, and security) and when we find a safe author to fulfill any of those needs, we latch on to it. Initially the Templars came to us in a manner that provided protective cover of our physical well being, enabling us to seek ghost kindred fulfillment. As our protectors of organized religion they took on an even stronger deificationistic post that helped them to become get toed within the normal psyche. Once fully true by the people of the day to be their protectors, t he people supported them without question. This is where the true power lies, in the minds and actions of the masses.Any entity with the ability to control the perception of the volume is a powerful entity indeed. BIBLIOGRAPHY Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. blessed Blood sacred Grail. reinvigorated York dell publication, 1982. I very bought this countersign for my research. It was utilise to establish an understanding of where Dan Brown came up with his crazy facts. de Troyes, Chretien. Perceval, Or, The humbug of The Grail. saucily York Pergamon Press, 1983. This is the version I compose for the tell seminal fluid. The actual unfinished work was circa 1190 and is not listed in the subroutine library of Congress. barber, Malcolm. The Knights Templar. Slate, April 20, 2006, http//www. slate. com/id/2140307/? nav=tap3 (accessed October 26, 2008). This was a good place to start. It established a basic learned overview of my effect by a famous and tr usted source. groom, Malcolm. The youthful Knighthood. in the altogether York Cambridge University Press, 1994. Malcolm Barber is prof of chivalric register at the University of Reading. This was my bible. I was able to use this earmark as noteworthy in this stem and to verify or throw out training from other sources. Barber, Malcolm, and Keith moderate. The Templars Selected Sources. Manchester Manchester University Press.Reprint, fresh York Palgrave, 2002. Malcolm Barber is Professor of mediaeval storey at the University of Reading. This entertain was translated and Annotated by Malcolm Barber and Keith Bate and it comprises a substantial gathering of translated natural illustrative of its history. I use it only for the noteworthy referenced. Bernard of Clairvaux translated by M. Conrad Greenia. In sycophancy of The bare-assed Knighthood A Treatise On The Knights Templar and The Holy Places of Jerusalem. Kalamazoo, Mich. Cistercian Publications, 2000. Very mos t-valuable document without it, there may never have been a Catholic order called the Knights of the Temple.Bold, Kevin. Baphomet A mystery story Solved At net? , 1995. Stephen Dafoe. http//www. templarhistory. com/solved. html. kindle article, I did not use it in this paper. Boudicca, Laura. Knights Templar rapscallion, April 10, 2008. Church of Y Dynion Mwyn. http//www. tylwythteg. com/templar. html. arouse article, I did not use it in this paper. Brown, Dan. The Davinci Code. recent York Anchor Books, 2003. I liked this book and the creativity of those who were amenable for its basis Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (especially Lincoln). Not to forget Noel Corbu and Pierre Plantard.If you take out the FACT page it is an entertaining work of fiction without as much controversy. Fodors acquire to The Davinci Code On The Trail to The best-selling(predicate) Novel. alter by Jennifer Paull, and Christopher Culwell. First ed. stark naked York Fodors Travel / stochastic House, 2006. This book was approve however, I did not find it very expedient in my research. I am glad I bought it though it is fun to see the pictures of the actual places. Charbonnel, Josaephe Chartrou. (From Old Catalog). Paris Les Presses universitaires de France, 1928. This source was translated by Malcolm Barber. I employ it only for the celebrated reference.Correll, Larry, and Susan Correll. Priory of Sion, Timothy Ministries. http//timothyministries. org/theologicaldictionary/default. aspx? theword=priory%20of%20sion This is merely one comment of the Priory of Sion short and to the point. The Vatican Publishing House. THE PARCHMENT OF CHINON Chinon, episcopate of Tours, 1308 August seventeenth 20th, Unknown. The Vatican Publishing House. http//asv. vatican. va/en/doc/1308. htmtop. I used this source only for the notable reference. This website appears to be the official website of the Vatican it says it is the Holy See. Dafoe, Stephen. Baphomet The pent angle Connection, Stephen Dafoe. http//www. templarhistory. com/pentagram. html. Templar recital. com is an online mental imagery of training on the history, mystery, fiction and bequest of the Knights Templar that was started by Templar author Stephen Dafoe in the dip of 1997. Interesting article, I did not use it in this paper. Dafoe, Stephen. The Templar Hierarchy, Stephen Dafoe. http//www. templarhistory. com/ pecking order. html. Templar news report. com is an online resource of learning on the history, mystery, fabrication and legacy of the Knights Templar that was started by Templar author Stephen Dafoe in the fall of 1997.Interesting article, it was my initiative resource regarding the complex body part of the order. I received the same schooling in several other sources however, the Templar hierarchy was not used in this paper. Dafoe, Stephen. Who Were The Knights Templar? , Stephen Dafoe. http//www. templarhistory. com/who. html. TemplarHistory. com is an online re source of data on the history, mystery, myth and legacy of the Knights Templar that was started by Templar author Stephen Dafoe in the fall of 1997. An overview. de Sede, Gerard. The Accursed value of Rennes-le-chateau. Translated by line Kersey. Worcester Park DEK, 2001.Gerard de Sede was a surrealist writer. This book reveals a plausible news report of the source of Saunieres wealth and untangles the astounding pseudo which includes false genealogies and externalistic conspiracies. Gerard de Sede wrote a magazine article about Gisors, which in turn was responsible for his acquainting himself with Pierre Plantard and soon a collaboration actual between them that inspired Gerard de Sedes 1962 book, Les Templiers sont parmi nous, ou, LEnigme de Gisors (The Templars are Amongst Us, or The Enigma of Gisors), which likewise paved the way for the introduction of the fabulous Priory of Sion.Pretty interesting thrust these collaborations. Editee pour la premiere fois et traduite en fran? cais par J. -B. Chabot. Chronique De Michel Le Syrien, Patriarche Jacobite Dantioche (1166-1199). 4 vols. capital of Belgium Culture et Civilisation, 1963. This source was translated by Malcolm Barber. I used it only for the noteworthy reference. Gonen, Rivka. oppose Holiness Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Perspectives On The Temple setting in Jerusalem. Jersey City, NJ KTAV Pub. House, 2003. Rivka Gonen is the former older Curator of the subdivision of Jewish descriptive anthropology at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and a participant in the Temple Mount Excavations.The book is a straightforward visual sense and history enhance with modern-day perspectives on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. I used it only for the famed reference. Griffith-Jones, Robin. The Da Vinci Code and The Secrets of The Temple. imperious Rapids, Mich. William B. Eerdmans Pub. , 2006. Robin Griffith-Jones kit and boodle at the Temple Church in England and this book is the assembly of what her presents to visitors. Parchments known as the Les Dossiers Secrets which were truly produced by Philippe de Cherisey is hat I pulled from an excerpt of this source, although it is common knowledge and found in many sources. GNU salvage Documentation License. Origins of mediaeval knighthood, Last updated 10-18-2008 2250. The Wikimedia Foundation. http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Knight. This provided me with the description of secular knight. I could then compare it with the definition of a Knights Templar. Haag, Michael, speedwell Haag, and James McConnachie. The unrefined Guide to The Davinci Code. modify by rat Ellingham. rev. ed. N. p. Rough Guides Ltd. , 2006. This was a somewhat reclaimable source.Some of the websites no agelong work but we needed it for class and it was handy to look up other peoples topics. Hindley, Geoffrey. The Crusades A History of Armed pilgrims journey and Holy War. impertinent York Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. This work chronicles the leg ion(predicate) expeditions to remember Jerusalem for Christendom. It was useful in my research. Geoffrey Hindley is a lecturer/writer better at University College, Oxford. This was a useful and reliable source. Housley, Norman. The Avignon Papacy and The Crusades, 1305-1378. Oxford Clarendon Press. Reprint, New York Oxford University Press, 1986.While focusing on the relationship between the papacy and the 14th-century crusades, this battleground illuminates other handle of activity in Avignon, such as papal revenue and interaction with Byzantium. Housley analyzes the Curias barbel to related issues such as peacemaking between warring Christian powers, the work of host Orders, and westwardern attempts to maintain a trade embargo on Mamluk, Egypt. I used it only for the illustrious reference. Housley, Norman, ed. Knighthoods of Christ Essays On The History of The Crusades and The Knights Templar, Presented to Malcolm Barber. Aldershot, England. Reprint, Burlington, VT Ashga te, 2007.Technically the try on I pulled this from was called The host Orders and the eastern unite States, 1149-1291 scripted by Jonathan Riley-Smith which begins on page 137 of the collection change by Norman Housley. It provide the reading I needed and was a good source. Introvigne, Massimo. Beyond The Da Vinci Code History and Myth of the Priory of Sion, June, 2005. CESNUR gist for Studies On New Religions. http//www. cesnur. org/2005/pa_introvigne. htm. Massimo Introvigne is the founder and managing film director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who meditate new religious movements.Introvigne is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles in the field of sociology of religion. Finding a intellectual source on this topic was not easy. I was grateful to find this work by him and gave it to Emily to use in their research. Very outstanding to my research on this topic. Jones, Greg. Beyond Da Vinci. New Y ork Seabury Books, 2004. This book is short, concise, and understandable. Greg Jones presents the facts openly and shows the flaws when they are there in a way that is simply debatable. I used it only for the storied reference. Moore, Malcolm. Vatican paper set to reach Knights Templar, October 7, 2007.Telegraph Media Group contain 2008. http//www. telegraph. co. uk/news/worldnews/1565252/Vatican-paper-set-to-clear-Knights-Templar. html. hold was printed verbatim under the CHINON PARCHMENT. Very useful. Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of The Crusades, Oxford ed. New York Oxford University Press, 1995. Jonathan Riley-Smith is confederation Professor of ecclesiastic History in the University of Cambridge. This was a great source that I referenced it often. Malcolm Barber also references his work. shame Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, William Kenan, and E. Ann content, eds.Law and The Illicit in gallant Europe. Middle Ages series. Philadelphia, PA University of atomic number 91 Press, 2008. Ruth Mazo Karras is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Joel Kaye is Professor of History at Barnard College. William R. Kenan is jr. Professor of unearthly Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. E. Ann Matter is Associate doyen for Arts and earn in the groom of Arts and Sciences. diverse scholars make the case that the development of law is deeply concerned in the growth of medieval righteousness and Christian doctrine. I used it only for the noted reference.Schein, Sylvia. Fideles Crucis The Papacy, The West, and The convalescence of The Holy Land, 1274-1314. Oxford Clarendon Press. Reprint, New York Oxford University Press, 1991. Schein is a PhD who challenges the view that the fall of Acre in 1291 was a washbasin dividing the classical age of the crusade from the late Middle Ages, when the ideal had become sterile, the psychoneurotic dream of a handful of individuals. She shows kind of that the desire to recover t he Holy Land remained powerful and pervasive, and was an eventful consideration in the policy-making of European rulers.She uses an enormous range of sources consulted and collated papal bulls, chronicles, prophecies, revelatory treatises and letters. Very useful source. stray, Joseph R. The Reign of Philip The Fair. Princeton, N. J. Princeton University Press, 1980. Strayer (1904-1987) taught at Princeton University and was take of their History plane section from 1941-1961. I wasnt able to get my hands on this book, only the noted reference. Newman, Sharan. The Real History Behind The Templars, tenth ed. New York Penguin Group, 2007. Sharan Newman was a PhD candidate at UC Santa Barbara, CA at the time this book was published.She is also a longtime phallus of the Medieval honorary society and has served on the informative board for the Medieval Association of the Pacific. I bought this book for my research and found it very useful in collaborating less scholarly sources as well as the noted reference. Nicholson, Helen, and David Nicolle. Gods Warriors Knights Templar, Saracens and The Battle for Jerusalem, Pbk ed. New York, NY, USA fish hawk Pub. , 2006. This is a good source for selective information about the battle of Hattin in 1187 and rival military elites. Helen Nicholson actually wrote about the Knights Templar.I used it only for the noted reference. Phillips, Jonathan. Defenders of The Holy Land Relations surrounded by The Latin East and The West, 1119-1187. Oxford Clarendon Press. Reprint, New York Oxford University Press, 1996. I used this source only for the noted reference however, I also viewed versatile clips on you-tube with this author in them. I took notes because he was very good. The author has his doctorate. Ralls, Karen. Knights Templar Encyclopedia. Edited by Gina Talucci. New Jersey The passage Press, Inc. , 2007. The author is a Ph. D. medieval historian and religious studies scholar.I bought this one for my research and used to confirm or debunk various other sources. Robinson, prat J. Dungeon, Fire, and Sword The Knights Templar in The Crusades. New York M. Evans & Co. , 1991. The author is a member of the Medieval honorary society of America, the Organization of American Historians, and Royal foreign League of London. This was the most enjoyable research book of them all. I lost many hours just because I couldnt stop reading it. The consideration is not tee sum up but flows more like novel. Valletta, Malta. The Priory of Sion tommyrot / leave-taking 1 A Barkeepers Myth, MalGo Media run Ltd. http//www. avinci-the-movie. com/priory-of-sion-1. html. disassemble one This was a good site for get the account in chronological order with a lot more detail. I also corroborate information found in Massimo Introvignes site. There is no author listed on site so it was very singular until verified. Valletta, Malta. The Priory of Sion Hoax / crack 2 The rich, deplorable Priest, MalGo Media Servic es Ltd. http//www. davinci-the-movie. com/priory-of-sion-2. html. give two This was a good site for getting the rendering in chronological order with a lot more detail. I also verified information found in Massimo Introvignes site.There is no author listed on site so it was very shadowy until verified. Valletta, Malta. The Priory of Sion Hoax / Part 3 BCC is taken by, MalGo Media Services Ltd. http//www. davinci-the-movie. com/priory-of-sion-3. html. Part three This was a good site for getting the explanation in chronological order with a lot more detail. I also verified information found in Massimo Introvignes site. There is no author listed on site so it was very suspect until verified. von Eschenbach, Wolfram. Parzival. Harmondsworth, Eng. Reprint, New York, N. Y. Penguin Books, 1980. This is the version I referenced for the noted source.The actual works were written between 1200 and 1210 and are not listed in the Library of Congress. William Chester Jordan. The French Monarc hy and The Jews From Philip Augustus to The Last Capetians. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. I used this source only for the noted reference. APPENDIX THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CITATIONS IN THE DAVINCI CODE rogues 171 173 advance citation in this instance will be of import to my research. The Priory of Sion, he began, was founded in Jerusalem in 1099 by a French king named Godefori de Bouillon, immediately after he had conquered the city. King Godefroi was allegedly the possessor of a powerful secret a secret that had been in his family since the time of Christ. Fearing his secret might be lost when he died, he founded a secret mating the Priory of Sion charged them with protect his secret by quietly passing it on from generation to generation. During their years in Jerusalem, the Priory learned of stash of hidden documents buried downstairs the ruins of Herods temple, which had been built atop the in the first place ruins of Solomons Temple.These document s, they believed, corroborated Godefrois powerful secret and were so explosive in nature that the Church would stop at nothing to get them. The Priory vowed that no matter how long it took, these documents must be vulcanized from the rubble to a lower place the temple and protect forever, so the right would never die. In order to retrieve the documents from within the ruins, the Priory created a military arm a group of nine knights called the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and Temple of Solomon. Langdon paused. to a greater extent commonly known as the Knights Templar. Langdon had lectured often enough on the Knights Templar to know that almost everyone on earth had heard of them, at least abstractedly. For academics, the Templars history was a parlous world where fact, lore, and misinformation had become so intertwined that extracting a pristine accuracy was almost impossible. Nowadays, Langdon hesitated even to mention the Knights Templar while lecturing because it c onstantly led to a barrage of gnarled inquiries into assorted combination theories. Sophie already looked troubled. Youre saying the Knights Templar were founded by the Priory of Sion to retrieve a collection of secret documents?I thought the Templars were created to protect the Holy Land. A common misconception. The idea of protection of pilgrims was the guise under which the Templars ran their mission. Their true goal in the Holy Land was to retrieve the documents from beneath the ruins of the temple. And did they find them? Langdon grinned. Nobody knows for sure, but the one thing on which all academics agree is this The Knights discovered something down there in the ruins something that made them wealthy and powerful beyond anyones wildest imagination. vehemence addedLangdon cursorily gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted Knights Templar history, explaining how the Knights were in the Holy Land during the number Crusade and told King Baldwin II that t hey were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways. Although amateurish and sworn to poverty, the Knights told the king they required basic shelter and pass his permission to take up residence in the stables under the ruins of the temple. King Baldwin apt(p) the soldiers request, and Knights took up their miserable residence interior the devastated shrine.The odd survival of the fittest of lodging, Langdon explained, had been anything but random. The Knights believed the documents the Priory sought were buried deep under the ruins beneath the Holy of Holies, a sacred house where God Himself was believed to reside. Literally, the very center of the Jewish faith. For almost a decade, the nine Knights lived in the ruins, excavating in total secrecy through solid rock. Sophie looked over. And you said they discovered something? They certainly did, Langdon said, explaining how it had taken nine years, but the Knights had eventually found what they had been searching f or.They took the treasure from the temple and traveled to Europe, where their decide seemed to solidify overnight. Nobody was certain whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the Church simply tried to buy the Knights silence, but Pope Innocent II immediately issued an unprecedented papal bull that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and declared them a law unto themselves an autonomous army independent of all randomness from kings and prelates, both religious and political. violence addedWith their new carte blanche from the Vatican, the Knights Templar grow at a staggering rate, both in total and political force, amassing vast estates in over a cardinal countries. The began extending credit to break away royals and charging interest in return, thereby establish modern banking and widening their wealth and see still further. After the citation supra Brown begins to lecture about the fall of the Knights, where they went, and states that they stil l exist under other names and fraternities. rapscallions 174 175 The Templars potent treasure trove of documents, which had apparently been their source of power, was Clements true objective, but it slipped through his fingers. The documents had long since been entrusted to the Templars shadowy architects, the Priory of Sion, whose veil of secrecy had kept them safely out of range of the Vaticans onslaught. As the Vatican closed in, the Priory smuggled their documents from a Paris preceptory by night onto Templar ships in La Rochelle. Emphasis added Where did the documents go? The entire collection of documents, its power, and the secret it reveals have become known by a single name Sangreal. Emphasis added The legend is complicated, but the important thing to find is that the Priory guards the proof, and is purportedly awaiting the right moment in history to revue the truth. What truth? What secret could possibly be that powerful? Sophie, the word Sangreal is an superann uated word. It has evolved over the years into another term a more modern name. Holy Grail. but the Sangreal documents are only half of the Holy Grail treasure. They are buried with the Grail itself and reveal its true meaning. The documents gave the Knights Templar so much power because the pages revealed the true nature of the Grail. Emphasis added rascals 182 183 Langdon and Sophie are in the political hack on the way to 24 repent Haxo also known as the deposit Bank of Zurich. My point, the Knights fundament of international banking as a source of power. Langdon pulled the heavy anchor from his pocket Earlier, while tellingSophie about the Knights Templar, Langdon had realised that this key, in profit to having the Priory seal raised on it, possess a more subtle tie to the Priory of Sion. The equal-armed cruciform was emblematic of the balance and agreement but also of the Knights Templar. Everyone had seen the paintings of Knights Templar wearing sportsman like tunics emblazoned with the red equal-armed crosses. Granted, the blazonry of the Templar cross were slightly flared at the ends, but they were still of equal length. A straightforward cross. Just like the one on this key.The Grail was believed to be somewhere in England, buried in a hidden chamber beneath one of the many Templar churches, where it had been hidden since at least 1500. Page 185 Is it possible, Sophie asked, that the key youre holding unlocks the screen place of the Holy Grail? We have an extremely warm key, stamped with the Priory of Sion seal, delivered to us by a member of the Priory of Sion a conglutination which, you just told me, are guardians of the Holy Grail. Pages 186 187 Langdon had solo forgotten that the peaceful, equal-armed cross had been adopted as the perfect image for the flag of unbiased Switzerland.At least the mystery was solved. Sophie and Langdon were holding the key to a Swiss bank deposit box. Page 248 Sophie cursorily outline d what Langdon had explained earlier the Priory of Sion, the Knights Templar, the Sangreal documents, and the Holy Grail, which many claimed was not a cup but rather something far more powerful. Emphasis added These next citations come out the novels description of the thing that gave the documents that the Knights Templar guarded, their power. Page 253 It was all about power, Teabing continued. Christ as the Nazarene was critical to the go of Church and state. legion(predicate) scholars claim that the early Church literally stole deliverer from His original followers, hijack His human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable invest of divinity, and using it to go their own power. Emphasis added Page 256 The Holy Grail is not a thing. It is, in fact a person. Page 258 The Grail is literally the ancient symbol for womanhood, and the Holy Grail represents the sacred feminine and the goddess, which of range has now been lost, close to eliminated by the Church.The power o f the female and her ability to produce life was once very sacred, but it posed a threat to the rise of the preponderantly male Church Page 259 Legends of chivalric quests for the lost Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests for the lost sacred feminine. Knights who claimed to be searching for the chalice were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned nonbelievers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine. Page 273 The Holy Grail is Mary Magdalene the mother of the royal bloodline of Jesus Christ. Sophie tilted her head and scanned the list of titles THE TEMPLAR REVELATION Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ Page 277 The Sangreal documents simply tell the other side of the Christ story. In the end, which side of the story you believe becomes a matter of faith and personal exploration, but at least the information has survived. The Sangreal documents include tens of thous ands of pages of information.Eyewitness accounts of the Sangreal treasure advert it as being carried in quartet enormous trunks. In those trunks are reputed to be the Purist Documents thousands of pages of unaltered, pre-Constantine documents, written by the early followers of Jesus, revering Him as a wholly human teacher and prophet. Also rumored to be part of the treasure is the legendary Q Documents a manuscript that even the Vatican admits they believe exists. Allegedly, it is a book of Jesus teachings, possibly written in His own hand. Sophie was silent for a long moment. And these four chests of documents were the treasure that the Knights Templar found under Solomons Temple? Exactly. The documents that made the Knights so powerful. The documents that have been the object of countless Grail quests throughout history. Emphasis added hardly you said the Holy Grail was Mary Magdalene. If people are searching for documents, why would you call it a search for the Holy Grai l? Teabing look her, his expression softening. Because the screen place of the Holy Grail includes a sarcophagus. The quest for the Holy Grail is literally the quest to rest before the swot up of Mary Magdalene. A journey to beg at the feet of the unwanted one, the lost sacred feminine. Page 278 Sophie matt-up an unexpected wonder.The cover place of the Holy Grail is actually a tomb? Teabings chromatic eyes got misty. It is. A tomb containing the body of Mary Magdalene and the documents that tell the true story of her life. At its heart, the quest for the Holy Grail has always been a quest for Magdalene the wronged Queen, entombed with the proof of her familys rightful claim to power. Emphasis added Page 279 Godefroi de Bouillon, descendant in the Merovingian bloodline and founder of the Priory of Sion ordered the Knights Templar to recover the Sangreal documents from beneath Solomons Temple and thus provide the Merovingians proof of their hereditary ties to Jesus Chr ist through Christs marriage to and subsequent children with Mary Magdalene. Pages 328 329 An ancient word of wisdom frees this history and helps us keep her scatterd family whole a headstone praised by templars is the key and atbash will reveal the truth to thee. This poem, Teabing gushed, references not only the Grail, but the Knights Templar and bemused family of Mary Magdalene What more could we ask for? Page 366 Robert, for heavens sake The church built in London by the Priorys military arm the Knights Templar themselves The Temple Church? Once the epicenter of all Templar/Priory activities in the United Kingdom, the Temple Church had been so named in honor of Solomons Temple, from which the Knights Templar had extracted theirs own title, as well as the Sangreal documents that gave them all their submit in Rome.Tales abounded of knights acting strange, secretive rituals within the Temple Churchs bizarre sanctuary. Page 375 The Knights Templar were warriors, Teabing reminded A religio-military society. Their churches were their strongholds and their banks. Banks? Sophie asked, glancing at Leigh. Heavens, yes. The Templars invented the concept of modern banking. For European nobility, traveling with gold was perilous, so the Templars allowed nobles to deposit gold in their nearest Temple Church and the repulsion it from any other Temple Church across Europe. All they needed was proper documentation. Alanus Marcel, Teabing said, The master of the Temple in the early dozen hundreds. He and his successors actually held the Parliamentary chairwoman of Primus Baro Angiae. Langdon was surprised. First mightiness of the Realm? Teabing nodded.The attain of the Temple, some claim, held more influence than the king himself. Emphasis added You know, Teabing whisper to Sophie, the Holy Grail is said to once have been stored in this church overnight while the Templars go it from one privateness place to another. bottomland you imagine the four chests of Sangreal documents sitting right here with Mary Magdalenes sarcophagus? Pages 466 467 The Knights Templar had knowing Rosslyn Chapel as an exact architectural blueprint of Solomons Temple in Jerusalem cope with a west wall, a condense rectangular sanctuary, and a subterranean leave out like the Holy of Holies, in which the original nine knights had first unearthed their priceless treasure. Langdon had to admit, there existed an intriguing concord in the idea of the Templars building a modern Grail repository that echoed of the Grails original hiding place.