Knight Templar in garb "no longer of the cross"
Knight Templar in garb no longer of the cross, but armed with lance and sword. The Order of the Knights Templar was a military order founded in 1118 by Hugues de Payens, a knight of Champagne, and eight other knights to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land. Copied from an illustration by Jacques Charles Bar in Costumes des ordres religieux et militaires, 1778. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and Middle Ages, Vienna, 1802
Picture No
14015636
Media ID
45806804
Size
4606px x 7478px
(6.7MB)
Credit
©Florilegius/Mary Evans
Source
Jacques Charles Bar
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