Lucasfilm Ltd July 7, 2022 How Star Wars’ Jedi were inspired by the Knights Templar Patrick Masters, University of Portsmouth Both are orders of religious warriors and both were taken down by power-hungry rulers
Conny Skogberg via Shutterstock December 23, 2019 Knights Templar: still loved by conspiracy theorists 900 years on Patrick Masters, University of Portsmouth Founded on Christmas Day 1119 and disbanded in 1307, this religious order has been misunderstood ever since.
EPA/Pete Maclaine December 5, 2017 Alt-right claims to march in step with the Knights Templar – this is fake history Patrick Masters, University of Portsmouth Thanks to the way they are portrayed in films and books, the Knights Templar have become identified with narrow-minded nationalism. This is unjust and inaccurate.