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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Revived thoughts is a production of Revived Studios.
00:18 --> 00:21 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Troy Angel, and you were listening to revive thoughts.
00:21 --> 00:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Deep dive, nice Timpler D part two.
00:25 --> 00:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Nights Timpler part two, Troy.
00:28 --> 00:30 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, dear listener, they might be going back to back.
00:30 --> 00:36 [SPEAKER_00]: So they might have just listened to Nights Timpler part one, although very probably been a hot second for them.
00:36 --> 00:37 [SPEAKER_00]: as it's kind of been for us.
00:37 --> 00:42 [SPEAKER_00]: We kind of put down the script, we're picking it back up and we got a lot of set up.
00:42 --> 00:55 [SPEAKER_00]: You told me all about how the Knights Templar came to be there, emerged to popularity, kind of dissuaded, dispelled a few myths about, yeah, I don't know.
00:55 --> 01:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Just to clarify, our Knights Templar are not free Masons, but the free Masons kind of steal some stuff from the Knights Templar.
01:03 --> 01:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think I just said you're going to get into this episode.
01:05 --> 01:09 [SPEAKER_01]: We will talk about, there's not, I mean, there's not actually an absolute ton to say about it.
01:10 --> 01:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And the way I say it to you off air is that it basically, the Knights Templar had no idea what to free Masons with.
01:14 --> 01:16 [SPEAKER_01]: There's no evidence that they overlap in total.
01:16 --> 01:34 [SPEAKER_01]: But then Freemasons definitely knew what the Knights Templar were, and so they put on their costume, they put them in their play, but the Knights Templar being used, you know, against, not against their will, but yeah, very much against their will, I don't think they would have been okay with what the Freemasons were all about at all.
01:34 --> 01:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And so that's the association, it's not intentional from the Knights Templar side of things, but it is unintentional.
01:42 --> 01:44 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is intentional from the Freemasons.
01:44 --> 01:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me ask a few questions just to kind of refresh the lay of the land here.
01:49 --> 01:52 [SPEAKER_00]: What era are we primarily operating in?
01:52 --> 01:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no problem.
01:53 --> 02:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Think your classic medieval Europe imagine nights imagine the peasants imagine kings and queens making all the decisions were before the reformation.
02:02 --> 02:04 [SPEAKER_01]: We're in fact just a little bit before Jonah Bark.
02:04 --> 02:07 [SPEAKER_01]: This kind of overlaps a little bit with her story, just a hair.
02:08 --> 02:10 [SPEAKER_01]: But this is the era we're talking about.
02:10 --> 02:14 [SPEAKER_01]: This is your armies, your high-catholic,
02:13 --> 02:34 [SPEAKER_01]: uh... you know popes are making decisions and everybody in quote unquote christendom is following uh... this is here and it's an era that we're very unfamiliar with it's an era that we are very and we're very unfamiliar with this era most of us are unfamiliar with anything of popes ain't mattering to us pretty much at all uh... most of us are very much unfamiliar with living under a king and queen
02:34 --> 02:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Certainly, nobody is familiar with it in the medieval sense, we're not, we're very, we know about wars in the Middle East, but the idea of conquering them for Christianity is far removed from anything we see to the, I mean, they're just a different world.
02:47 --> 02:58 [SPEAKER_01]: And then at on top of that, those differences, the Knights Templar, which are so far removed, even from their own world, that to us, they almost, I was talking to a friend of mine, they almost are like aliens.
02:57 --> 03:00 [SPEAKER_01]: like they almost seem like they come from another planet.
03:00 --> 03:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They're so, they're just so out there.
03:02 --> 03:04 [SPEAKER_01]: They are the, they're the elves and Lord of the Rings.
03:04 --> 03:09 [SPEAKER_01]: All the humans and stuff are doing one thing and then you look over and the elves are like wandering off in a caravan.
03:09 --> 03:10 [SPEAKER_01]: You're like, what are you guys doing?
03:10 --> 03:14 [SPEAKER_01]: They're just completely beating to a different drum than everyone else.
03:15 --> 03:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and you mentioned, so there were Knights Templars that held in the Crusades, and that it was, do I, am I remembering this correctly in that the cross on the Knights armor, like that, that robe, that addressing was them, that popular as that?
03:33 --> 03:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so the Pope demanded it.
03:35 --> 03:37 [SPEAKER_01]: I think around the year 10 not 10 minutes.
03:37 --> 03:38 [SPEAKER_01]: I love him 50 or so.
03:39 --> 03:40 [SPEAKER_01]: He basically was like, that's the costume.
03:41 --> 03:42 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the look we're looking for.
03:43 --> 03:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And the big red cross.
03:44 --> 03:50 [SPEAKER_01]: When you picture Crusader, if you put Crusader in the Google images or you whatever, you ask a chat, you'd need to make you one.
03:50 --> 03:57 [SPEAKER_01]: That's the picture you're going to see is almost certainly actually a nice Templar who is crusading at the same time.
03:57 --> 04:05 [SPEAKER_01]: And furthermore, not only you're going to see that classic Knight Stimplar Crusader picture, but they are so intertwined.
04:05 --> 04:07 [SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't mention this too.
04:07 --> 04:10 [SPEAKER_01]: They became popular and powerful, so incredibly fast.
04:11 --> 04:26 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, from the Crusades happened in 1096 to 1099, the very first one, they are founded around 1117 and by the 1140s, they are this unstoppable military force of about
04:26 --> 04:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And within 60 or so years of their founding is going to be almost in some ways their best moment like the more about the cover here and a little bit like the the the the biggest greatest moment they have and all of their battles and to be honest it is pretty legendary.
04:40 --> 04:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you almost described them as like a medieval mercenary special ops force.
04:47 --> 04:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that we feel like an apt description still.
04:51 --> 04:53 [SPEAKER_01]: It would be really good way to describe it.
04:53 --> 04:54 [SPEAKER_01]: The only problem is the mercenary.
04:55 --> 04:56 [SPEAKER_01]: So technically.
04:56 --> 05:15 [SPEAKER_01]: they answer to the pope and the pope's given them orders to protect Jerusalem and to help pilgrims and so that's their job but they do work in the sense of like they kind of work with whatever group comes by that's on the crusades because usually the crusades is kind of a part of what they're doing and
05:15 --> 05:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And also the number one criticism we kind of ended it in the last episode if you need to refresher is that the criticism of the people critiquing them is that they're at their obsessive money.
05:25 --> 05:34 [SPEAKER_01]: They're greedy, you know, the final there was a battle we mentioned that they said it was kind of put on them that was lost, not lost, the battle in that being won, but it was it was set back a bit.
05:34 --> 05:51 [SPEAKER_01]: by the greediness of the night's Templar and even though the guy writing it wasn't even there, that's like kind of their their the the hole in their armor, whatever you call it, that's their that's their weakness, their kryptonite of this really unstoppable force is agreed.
05:51 --> 05:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what are we going to talk about today?
05:52 --> 05:54 [SPEAKER_00]: What are we going to do?
05:54 --> 05:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's go ahead and jump into this thing.
05:56 --> 05:57 [SPEAKER_01]: We're just overview you.
05:57 --> 06:00 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go over the super great moment things go well.
06:00 --> 06:07 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to go over their number one foe in the Muslim side for a really long time, a guy named Saladin or Saladin.
06:07 --> 06:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I probably Saladin, but it looks like Saladin and I don't know.
06:10 --> 06:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Saladin.
06:12 --> 06:15 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about, I mean, we're going to talk about how just we're basically going to go over the fall.
06:16 --> 06:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Like here's how that we rose to power and here's how sadly they're going to fall.
06:21 --> 06:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And they said they had one trip tonight, but they actually have to.
06:24 --> 06:29 [SPEAKER_01]: The first trip tonight that's accused of by their enemies is their greed.
06:29 --> 06:32 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not, I am not convinced that that's actually a trip tonight.
06:32 --> 06:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm convinced that's kind of a slander that their enemies throw at the moment.
06:36 --> 06:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying they're perfect with money, every human sins,
06:40 --> 06:45 [SPEAKER_01]: But by the same time, it's not, in my opinion, what is actually true to them.
06:45 --> 06:47 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems to be what their enemies are saying.
06:47 --> 06:50 [SPEAKER_01]: But what is true to them is they are reckless.
06:50 --> 07:05 [SPEAKER_01]: they're willing to throw themselves head-long into battles without any kind of, are you in need, Joel, if we're standing and we see enemies charging at us and we're surrounded by 10 men, we're gonna run, you know, we're not stupid, right?
07:05 --> 07:18 [SPEAKER_01]: These guys, the nice Templar, much like a samurai or a much like a, you know, some story you've read in like other, they don't run, they will charge headfirst into battles that are absolutely,
07:18 --> 07:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously unwindable and these guys are seasoned fighters.
07:22 --> 07:23 [SPEAKER_01]: They know what they're doing.
07:23 --> 07:25 [SPEAKER_01]: They just don't care
07:27 --> 07:29 [SPEAKER_01]: And that leads us to the year 1177.
07:29 --> 07:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Truly one of the high water best moments, you could argue this is the nice Timpler at their best is right here.
07:38 --> 07:39 [SPEAKER_01]: I would just call them Battle of Montesard.
07:40 --> 07:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Mont, Montgazar, Montgazar.
07:42 --> 07:43 [SPEAKER_01]: You sound like Joel over there.
07:43 --> 07:45 [SPEAKER_01]: You're pulling the Joel, Montgazar.
07:45 --> 07:46 [SPEAKER_01]: That old battle.
07:46 --> 07:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone knows a little about it.
07:48 --> 07:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, it was hard.
07:48 --> 07:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, so the movie is actually made out of this one.
07:51 --> 07:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever seen Kingdom of Heaven, Joel?
07:54 --> 07:54 [SPEAKER_00]: I have.
07:55 --> 07:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, we're talking about the kingdom of heaven battle.
07:57 --> 07:57 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the kingdom of heaven.
07:58 --> 07:59 [SPEAKER_01]: The kingdom of heaven.
07:59 --> 08:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm holding Jerusalem, huh?
08:00 --> 08:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Hold in Jerusalem.
08:01 --> 08:03 [SPEAKER_01]: And I have also never seen it.
08:03 --> 08:04 [SPEAKER_01]: No, I have not watched this movie.
08:04 --> 08:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Is it good?
08:05 --> 08:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you like it?
08:06 --> 08:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, man, a kingdom of heaven is a tough one to recommend.
08:11 --> 08:13 [SPEAKER_00]: It's pretty dumb in some spots.
08:13 --> 08:23 [SPEAKER_00]: It does have some very impressive sequences and definitely, if you want to get a good feel of what a crusade siege must have been like.
08:23 --> 08:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it does, it does check all those boxes pretty good.
08:26 --> 08:31 [SPEAKER_00]: But, um, from a movie critique standpoint, if I'll show it in a lot of places too.
08:32 --> 08:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
08:32 --> 08:38 [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's, if you're interested in crusade history, I think it's fascinating there.
08:38 --> 08:42 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't much care for Olander Bloom's character, but, you know, is what you have.
08:42 --> 08:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, that was kind of, I even know that the movie was kind of made during New Orlando Bloom season.
08:46 --> 08:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, right?
08:46 --> 08:50 [SPEAKER_01]: That was Pirates of the Caribbean and that, and let's see how they're on my blanket.
08:51 --> 08:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Legolas, right?
08:51 --> 08:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Like this, and that's actually something I was singing at when I was looking, I can never have been just kind of reading through those synopsis real quick to get 90 out of the movie.
08:58 --> 09:05 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, you know, 20 years ago, it was pretty common to have a big blockbuster where like giant medieval armies fought.
09:05 --> 09:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Like that was actually, I feel like a...
09:06 --> 09:25 [SPEAKER_00]: very noticeable notable thing and I can't think of the last time a movie like that came out can you I mean I'm missing it and this was also still in the era where you you shot it practically like and it sells like it works well you couldn't I feel like pulled it off a CGI where you have
09:25 --> 09:31 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, hundreds of people in genuine armor glistening in the sun clanking through the desert.
09:31 --> 09:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's that's something that you got to film practically in person.
09:35 --> 09:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And again, those sequences hit pretty good when they're out in the desert.
09:39 --> 09:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, well, hey.
09:40 --> 09:46 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you have seen to me, I've heard a lot of, I've heard, man, I've heard all kinds of mixed reviews, I don't want to give it any kind of officials.
09:46 --> 09:53 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, overall, there's, there's a love story in it that I think is pretty dumb and kind of ruins it for me.
09:53 --> 09:57 [SPEAKER_00]: I will say that, that love story in Pearl Harbor, another historical kind of story.
09:57 --> 09:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, it would be.
09:58 --> 09:59 [SPEAKER_01]: killed that movie for me.
09:59 --> 10:01 [SPEAKER_01]: It was so hard to watch.
10:02 --> 10:03 [SPEAKER_01]: But I also know people really like that.
10:03 --> 10:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, we're way out.
10:05 --> 10:06 [SPEAKER_01]: The leader of the Muslim side though.
10:06 --> 10:09 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the area where we're talking about is Salat.
10:09 --> 10:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, why am I so wrongly with this name today?
10:10 --> 10:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Saladin.
10:11 --> 10:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And for the first time in 200 years,
10:14 --> 10:16 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Muslims are united.
10:16 --> 10:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Now up until this point, the Muslims have been all split up fighting each other.
10:20 --> 10:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's made it easy for the crusaders to kind of come in and start cleaning up.
10:24 --> 10:25 [SPEAKER_01]: But they're united.
10:25 --> 10:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Now they're not united because they all came together and said, let's kill the Christians.
10:28 --> 10:29 [SPEAKER_01]: That was not on their radar.
10:29 --> 10:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't see the world that way.
10:31 --> 10:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And they wouldn't see the world that way for a long time.
10:33 --> 10:34 [SPEAKER_01]: But.
10:34 --> 10:42 [SPEAKER_01]: marriages, intermingling, all that kind of stuff they were united, but the new guy who was uniting them, Saladin, was kind of in a very dicey situation.
10:42 --> 10:50 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a SUNY trying to run Shiite lands, and in the Muslim world, that's a very dangerous situation, bringing all these people under one kingdom.
10:51 --> 10:53 [SPEAKER_01]: So his idea, just pretty smart.
10:53 --> 11:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, why don't I make an enemy that I can unite us all around and the enemy he united them all around was the obvious Christian kingdom in the world right fall the Muslims are kind of not sure if they like you will point them towards somebody who's not Muslim and that was the Christian Crusader states that has shown up you know 60 years ago and it kind of been a thorn in their side anyway and so he made them that his target.
11:16 --> 11:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is where you really start to see the beginnings of Muslims against Christians in a united kind of front.
11:25 --> 11:28 [SPEAKER_01]: The Christians that be claiming these lands for Christ since 1095.
11:28 --> 11:36 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, if you were living in Spain or Portugal this time, you would definitely push back and say, excuse me, the Muslims have been over here for hundreds of years.
11:36 --> 11:42 [SPEAKER_01]: But in the Middle East, they really just treated the Crusader states like rival kingdoms, mercenary states,
11:42 --> 11:44 [SPEAKER_01]: But this is when they start to use the phrase G-Hot.
11:44 --> 11:47 [SPEAKER_01]: They start to use the phrase Holy War.
11:47 --> 11:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And solidine is going to kind of kick into this kind of idea that this is a religious war between these people.
11:52 --> 12:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, the King of Jerusalem had recently attempted his fifth number five attempt to conquer and liberate Egypt and had died doing so.
12:01 --> 12:02 [SPEAKER_01]: And who has it?
12:02 --> 12:06 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, come on, who hasn't done at least five attempts to reclaim Egypt?
12:06 --> 12:09 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even sure why he's trying to claim Egypt.
12:09 --> 12:12 [SPEAKER_01]: He's got Jerusalem in the Middle East, but he was going after Egypt on top of that.
12:13 --> 12:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And the new King of Jerusalem, Baldwin IV, is a 16 year old man.
12:17 --> 12:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He has no, the 6 year old man is a 6 year old guy, boy.
12:21 --> 12:45 [SPEAKER_01]: uh... he's got no fighting experience and he has leprosy so he's not exactly in a position of string to deal with this new united muslim empire on top of that he uh... he's reached out to the west for help and a count from flanders which is over by Belgium like over next to where the Netherlands and Belgium he said you know they always to be kind of united over there in this guy comes over
12:45 --> 12:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's a long way, so you're thinking, oh good, he's got some help.
12:50 --> 12:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody from the West showed up.
12:51 --> 12:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, no, this guy travels all the way across the world to meet with this bald one of the fourth and when he gets there, he says, hey, I'm here.
12:59 --> 13:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Whatever lands I conquer, I'm adding them to my territory.
13:02 --> 13:07 [SPEAKER_01]: and the kingdom of Jerusalem and the Byzantines go, no, we fight these lands.
13:07 --> 13:08 [SPEAKER_01]: We hold these lands.
13:08 --> 13:09 [SPEAKER_01]: You help us out.
13:09 --> 13:10 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not in here.
13:10 --> 13:11 [SPEAKER_01]: We're not setting up.
13:11 --> 13:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Yet another kingdom over in the Crusader states, either work for us or you don't.
13:15 --> 13:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And the guy said no.
13:16 --> 13:16 [SPEAKER_01]: So he took some nobles.
13:17 --> 13:19 [SPEAKER_01]: He hired a bunch of armies out of Jerusalem.
13:19 --> 13:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He started marching north and decided, I'm just going to go get an award with the Turkish people.
13:23 --> 13:26 [SPEAKER_01]: And so not only did this guy who came to help them, not help them.
13:26 --> 13:32 [SPEAKER_01]: He also made them weaker by taking a big force out of Jerusalem.
13:32 --> 13:34 [SPEAKER_01]: help and are weaker than when they started.
13:34 --> 13:38 [SPEAKER_01]: If they had not asked for any help, they would have actually been in a stronger position.
13:39 --> 13:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Saladin is bringing in army.
13:41 --> 13:42 [SPEAKER_01]: He's on the way.
13:43 --> 13:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And between Jerusalem and Egypt is one of the night's Templars largest forces holding out a fort.
13:49 --> 13:51 [SPEAKER_01]: And for them a large force is 300.
13:52 --> 13:53 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a pretty big fort.
13:54 --> 13:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And they expect to have a big fight here.
13:55 --> 13:56 [SPEAKER_01]: They're waiting.
13:56 --> 13:57 [SPEAKER_01]: They see Saladin's coming.
13:57 --> 13:59 [SPEAKER_01]: They're like, okay, it's going to be fight time.
13:59 --> 14:22 [SPEAKER_01]: these 300 nights in them are prepared, they've brought even the grandmaster in like hey this is going we're going to make a pretty big stand here get ready to you know die basically but we'll hold them off of Jerusalem this will be good but Saladin doesn't bite he sees that for he realizes it'll slow down he realizes it's not going to be a fun fight for him so we just could kind of eat buy passes it which is so
14:22 --> 14:26 [SPEAKER_01]: kind of weird like the thing that a big king in army can just kind of go like no thanks.
14:27 --> 14:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna just kind of walk around that for and go find somewhere else.
14:30 --> 14:31 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's what he does.
14:31 --> 14:34 [SPEAKER_01]: He leaves the Knights Timblar completely alone.
14:34 --> 14:35 [SPEAKER_01]: He's interested in Jerusalem.
14:35 --> 14:37 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't want to deal with those guys right now.
14:38 --> 14:43 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he just bypasses him, which also does tell you just how powerful the Knights Timblar that a very large or army of.
14:44 --> 14:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I believe it's like tens of thousands of soldiers don't want to deal with 300 guys.
14:48 --> 14:51 [SPEAKER_01]: They're like, we'd rather do anything but deal with those guys right now.
14:51 --> 14:53 [SPEAKER_01]: on top of this.
14:53 --> 15:07 [SPEAKER_01]: As the poor king of Jerusalem, add more insult to injury like as the final days of this siege is about to happen, his best advisor is the oldest military helper that's the overland dies of illness.
15:07 --> 15:09 [SPEAKER_01]: And so the king is literally left with nothing.
15:10 --> 15:13 [SPEAKER_01]: He takes his 300 best nights, maybe his only nights.
15:13 --> 15:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And he tries to write out to a town called Ascalon, the one from the end of the last episode, actually.
15:20 --> 15:22 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I'll have a, I'll make my stand here.
15:22 --> 15:23 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to fight in Jerusalem.
15:23 --> 15:24 [SPEAKER_01]: It's too dangerous.
15:24 --> 15:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Too many people will die there.
15:26 --> 15:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Hold, build up a defense behind us, but we'll try and hold them off at Ascalon for a while.
15:30 --> 15:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Saladin doesn't bite the bait there either.
15:33 --> 15:34 [SPEAKER_01]: He's very smart.
15:34 --> 15:39 [SPEAKER_01]: He puts a little army around, ask him on, and then he goes ahead and moves on to Jerusalem.
15:39 --> 15:44 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not going to give the king an honorable, you know, final stand battle.
15:44 --> 15:50 [SPEAKER_01]: He's just going to go take Jerusalem while the kings in this little town off to the side, but that's where he actually makes his mistake.
15:51 --> 15:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Because he sees the people of Jerusalem.
15:53 --> 15:55 [SPEAKER_01]: They see this giant army coming and they start running.
15:55 --> 15:57 [SPEAKER_01]: They just get up and rich people.
15:57 --> 15:59 [SPEAKER_01]: and there are a lot of them.
15:59 --> 16:04 [SPEAKER_01]: They start fleeing with their goods and their merchandise and solidine and his armies start going after them.
16:04 --> 16:09 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to take down Jerusalem and not get money and not get paid for it.
16:09 --> 16:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And as the army starts kind of splitting up and splintering, the army becomes weak around the king.
16:15 --> 16:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And so the king rides out of Asglon meets up with the Knights Templars as, hey, there's not a lot of us.
16:21 --> 16:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Your 300 Knights, our 300 Knights, but together,
16:27 --> 16:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And we graph some Christians along the way, who knows, right?
16:30 --> 16:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Who knows?
16:31 --> 16:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Knights Templar are all about it.
16:33 --> 16:35 [SPEAKER_01]: They have also gathered some more men at this point.
16:36 --> 16:37 [SPEAKER_01]: There's about 500 of them.
16:37 --> 16:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And so together, this king with his knights and the Knights Templar with their knights, they charge and they come, come and down on solidine with his 20 plus cavalry, not including infantry.
16:50 --> 16:52 [SPEAKER_01]: He had 20 people on horses.
16:52 --> 16:54 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's an absolute disaster.
16:54 --> 16:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Saladin is completely unprepared.
16:56 --> 16:57 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not see this coming.
16:58 --> 17:01 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not expect a behind, you know, a charge at him.
17:01 --> 17:03 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't expect the nice Timblar, the charge at all.
17:03 --> 17:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't expect this king to charge.
17:05 --> 17:06 [SPEAKER_01]: And his men are scattered everywhere.
17:06 --> 17:09 [SPEAKER_01]: And they get absolutely crushed.
17:09 --> 17:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Saladin himself is almost killed and has to hide on like the back of a camel, barely getting out alive by himself.
17:15 --> 17:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Many of his men are completely scattered across the land and the kingdom of Jerusalem They chased them down.
17:21 --> 17:35 [SPEAKER_01]: They'd go all over the land looking and killing them because any of them that'll get away They're just gonna fight them again later So they go out and find them and then the ones who get out of the kingdom of Jerusalem lands They end up in Bedouin bandit territory the same bandit said the
17:35 --> 17:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Nice Timbler were founded to fight against our chasing down these solidine guys killing them and the ones who get away from that They're in the middle of winter stranded way out there many of them are killed many of them are sold into slavery by the Bedouin bayonets It's terrible absolutely disaster and solidine never forgets it
17:54 --> 18:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He basically swears like, he was arrogant, he was overconfident, he goes back to Egypt.
18:00 --> 18:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He kind of makes a promise to Allah, like, I'll never do that again.
18:04 --> 18:05 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
18:05 --> 18:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And he thinks Allah has spared him because he needs to make right what he did wrong here.
18:10 --> 18:24 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, his arrogance caused his downfall, but Allah is going to spare him to get another shot at conquering Jerusalem and making up for what happened here.
18:24 --> 18:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, you know, a very, very small force was able to defeat the very large force.
18:30 --> 18:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, it is not exactly a completely clean picture because the lesson learned by the Muslims was we have to be more humble and much more careful on how we deal with them.
18:40 --> 18:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Now about two years, this shows, nice Templar are more than willing to charge into a battle where it makes no sense and it does work sometimes, but here's the problem too, it doesn't always.
18:51 --> 18:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Two years later, the nice Templar are in another situation, proving their courage.
18:56 --> 19:01 [SPEAKER_01]: For them, you can't say it's about money when you're 300 of you charging into a giant army to die.
19:01 --> 19:03 [SPEAKER_01]: you can't say it's reckless, though.
19:04 --> 19:07 [SPEAKER_01]: And in another fight with the Saladin guy, they kind of are in a battle with him.
19:07 --> 19:09 [SPEAKER_01]: They ask some French soldiers with them.
19:09 --> 19:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And the French soldiers are doing great.
19:10 --> 19:12 [SPEAKER_01]: They're killing the Saladin army.
19:12 --> 19:13 [SPEAKER_01]: They're really cleaning up.
19:14 --> 19:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And they want to re-group together with the Knights Templar and together make a forward charge.
19:20 --> 19:24 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, when they go to do so, the Knights Templar aren't there.
19:25 --> 19:26 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, what happened?
19:26 --> 19:28 [SPEAKER_01]: And a couple nights simpler come running back.
19:28 --> 19:30 [SPEAKER_01]: That's all this stuff to the night's Templar.
19:30 --> 19:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're bringing this large force of solidine soldiers with them.
19:33 --> 19:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And the French soldiers get almost completely killed by this attack.
19:37 --> 19:42 [SPEAKER_01]: And the whole battle ends up flipping over what was a really strong battle.
19:42 --> 19:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Suddenly, he's completely lost because this giant army of solidine is coming in.
19:46 --> 19:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And the tight nights Templar know where to be found hundreds of nobles are captured and killed.
19:50 --> 19:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Nights are dying everywhere.
19:52 --> 19:53 [SPEAKER_01]: The grandmaster.
19:53 --> 19:55 [SPEAKER_01]: who's in charge, gets killed and what happened?
19:56 --> 20:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the nice Templar saw a chance to charge, and instead of regrouping with the French, they decided to charge.
20:02 --> 20:07 [SPEAKER_01]: It was something like, again, 300 versus 7, but this time they don't win.
20:07 --> 20:16 [SPEAKER_01]: The 7 are organized and absolutely slaughter them and when they come and the survivors come running to the French and lead them right to them completely wiping them out.
20:16 --> 20:21 [SPEAKER_01]: The grandmaster who ordered the charge is taken to Saladin's jail, he is died there.
20:21 --> 20:37 [SPEAKER_01]: In the Saladin asked you want to rent some him, I'll pay him off, you know, back in those days the leader could have a certain amount of money paid and it given back and it was just kind of a thing you did with the leaders of all the areas, but then I simpler had an oath no leader could ever beat nobody could be ran some even the leader.
20:37 --> 20:46 [SPEAKER_01]: but this went to kind of show you that these guys are very brave, but they're also very reckless and they don't really work.
20:46 --> 20:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, they don't answer to you, the king, a mercenary does what you tell them because you pay them to do what you tell you.
20:52 --> 21:06 [SPEAKER_01]: But the nice Templar of taking these oats, they work for the pope and if they think they can make a charge and that charge will make a difference even if strategically you could win the battle, they might do something stupid like make a charge and cost you everything.
21:06 --> 21:22 [SPEAKER_01]: The king of Jerusalem that same man with leprosy from before, he actually got knocked off his horse in this battle, had to be rescued, very embarrassing moment for him, and Saladin got just a bunch of people killed, and he was feeling good, he was starting to get a taste of revenge, and it was only the beginning for him.
21:22 --> 21:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, the Titans said far showed to the kind of world they couldn't be trusted.
21:25 --> 21:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They had courage, but their zeal was reckless and the whispers that can't paint against them.
21:31 --> 21:37 [SPEAKER_01]: People whispered, they just wanted to make the charge so they could kill the enemy so they could get the gold for themselves.
21:38 --> 21:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Don't think that makes sense because I don't think most people are willing to charge headfirst and to obvious death for a little bit of gold.
21:45 --> 21:47 [SPEAKER_01]: but that's the rumor against them.
21:47 --> 21:53 [SPEAKER_01]: What else to a normal human, what else can explain these guys is absolute recklessness.
21:53 --> 21:57 [SPEAKER_01]: It must be that they love gold because why else are they doing these things?
21:57 --> 21:59 [SPEAKER_01]: It could just be their oath.
21:59 --> 22:03 [SPEAKER_01]: They genuinely think this is how you're supposed to fight for God, but nobody can understand them.
22:03 --> 22:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They're just out of control.
22:05 --> 22:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, the Keynote Jerusalem kind of starts to trust them a little bit less, and they start building a lot of their own defenses at this time, but they also, they can't control them all, so they do occasionally give some of these castles to the Knights Templar, and one of them they put very close to Syria, and this is just kind of, again, this is what life was like in the Middle East, just kind of a little snapshot for you.
22:25 --> 22:30 [SPEAKER_01]: the nice Templar start building a castle near Syria as fast as they can.
22:31 --> 22:36 [SPEAKER_01]: As Solidine sees it getting built, doesn't have any interest in putting a Tim, sorry, nice Templar castle at close to him.
22:37 --> 22:37 [SPEAKER_01]: He attacks it.
22:38 --> 22:46 [SPEAKER_01]: And for four days, the nice Templar holding it, the kingdom of Jerusalem is trying to get an army ready for them, but they can't get there in time.
22:46 --> 22:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And eventually, eventually we see that the
22:51 --> 22:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, nice tempar are completely, uh, out manoeuvred.
22:56 --> 23:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They, uh, Saladin has this method he likes to use where he'll put bombs under your wall and just explode them, explode them, explode them until the wall is so unstable.
23:05 --> 23:07 [SPEAKER_01]: The whole thing falls down and creates an insurance.
23:07 --> 23:12 [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually pretty clever, battle tactic, and I'm surprised you don't see more people doing that mystery.
23:12 --> 23:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I ain't think about it.
23:13 --> 23:18 [SPEAKER_01]: If you put a bomb under your house, like under the wall of your house, how many of those go off before the whole house falls over?
23:18 --> 23:20 [SPEAKER_01]: and it's again, it's just kind of amazing to me.
23:20 --> 23:20 [SPEAKER_01]: You don't see that.
23:21 --> 23:25 [SPEAKER_01]: So this castle, which wasn't finished, it was in construction, gets completely wiped out.
23:26 --> 23:27 [SPEAKER_01]: They set fire to it.
23:27 --> 23:32 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar commander realizes he's going to die, so he jumps into the flames to sacrifice himself.
23:33 --> 23:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone fights to the bitter end here.
23:35 --> 23:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, these Knights Templar, they know they're outnumbered, but they're just going to try and eventually they all get killed.
23:40 --> 23:52 [SPEAKER_01]: and the muslims are so upset with them in this battle that they set fire to each and every corpse they can find and the wall and solidine doesn't let them leave until they burned everything to a crisp.
23:52 --> 24:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Well this takes a while and these bodies are out in the desert not in good condition and doing this actually causes a bunch of diseases to start spreading.
24:02 --> 24:13 [SPEAKER_01]: And this was only like a group of maybe a hundred or two hundred guys that they killed, but they ended up causing thousands of Muslims to die by disease because of solidings like vengeance here.
24:13 --> 24:19 [SPEAKER_01]: He loses way more men from the disease of burning the bodies than he ever actually did in the battle.
24:19 --> 24:21 [SPEAKER_01]: And it really just shows you, this is the mindset of solidings.
24:21 --> 24:23 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not playing around.
24:23 --> 24:25 [SPEAKER_01]: He's angry at what's happening.
24:25 --> 24:26 [SPEAKER_01]: And he will stop at nothing.
24:26 --> 24:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And if he loses, you know, 2 men to disease to make a point, he'll do it.
24:30 --> 24:31 [SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't care.
24:31 --> 24:33 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what it's like to be in the Middle East.
24:33 --> 24:36 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is what it's like to be a night's Templar.
24:36 --> 24:36 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's time.
24:36 --> 24:41 [SPEAKER_01]: You're dealing with this kind of level of rage and battle going on.
24:42 --> 24:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Because of the last Grand Master's death, and these different charges and stuff, a new Grand Master takes over the new leader of the night's Templar.
24:50 --> 25:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, if we're looking for turning points, if we're looking for one moment, that what is the changing moment for the night nice tempo or when things begin to look different that you can't you can't put the put the that was the genie back in the bottle you can't go backwards after this the cat back in the bag or whatever the freezes are this is it one of those one of those there's a genie in a cat and they're doing stuff and you can't get it back in there.
25:15 --> 25:15 [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
25:15 --> 25:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Pandora's box.
25:16 --> 25:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that's the one.
25:17 --> 25:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, the point is this is it.
25:18 --> 25:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I think this is the one moment where I can point to where I can say Everything changed after this one guy and the nice Templar were never Back on top again.
25:28 --> 25:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Now back on top is militarily as powerful because economically Financially they've got a long ways to go and they are still they are gonna even to their very final years They are absolutely a powerhouse, but fight, but
25:43 --> 25:46 [SPEAKER_01]: But militarily, this is the moment where everything changes.
25:46 --> 25:51 [SPEAKER_01]: This guy's name is Gerard and Gerard.
25:51 --> 25:55 [SPEAKER_01]: He was moving up the ranks through the crusader states.
25:55 --> 25:58 [SPEAKER_01]: He was looking like he was going to be the king of one of these little countries.
25:58 --> 26:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He was going to marry the daughter of one of these guys.
26:01 --> 26:02 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was set.
26:02 --> 26:06 [SPEAKER_01]: It was basically, he was set to be the new king of one of these little thief Dems.
26:06 --> 26:10 [SPEAKER_01]: When the guys father changed the mind, decided to marry the daughter off to someone else.
26:11 --> 26:12 [SPEAKER_01]: And this guy got nothing.
26:12 --> 26:15 [SPEAKER_01]: His whole army, his whole everything, just fell out from underneath him.
26:16 --> 26:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And right afterwards, he got absolutely very intensely sick.
26:19 --> 26:21 [SPEAKER_01]: And it took him a long time to recover.
26:21 --> 26:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And he said, that after that, I'm going to go pledge myself to God, okay, I kind of get the vibe that this guy was a rank riser.
26:30 --> 26:31 [SPEAKER_01]: He wanted power.
26:31 --> 26:32 [SPEAKER_01]: He wanted to be on top.
26:32 --> 26:36 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he couldn't get the fiefdom, he went over and tried it out with a nice Timpler.
26:36 --> 26:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe not though.
26:37 --> 26:41 [SPEAKER_01]: He does some things that don't make a lot of sense if you're just trying to do it for the glory, but maybe he did.
26:41 --> 26:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Either way, maybe did, maybe did have a real conversion experience when he got that sick after all those things.
26:47 --> 26:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe.
26:48 --> 26:58 [SPEAKER_01]: But regardless, he joins the nice Timpler, and he starts rank climbing again, and within only four years of being in the nice Timpler, he becomes the new Grandmaster.
26:58 --> 27:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Now part of that is because the nice Timpler had a rough four years, and a lot of people had died in charges, and that was probably explaining some of his extreme meteoric rise to fame.
27:10 --> 27:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Part of it too was just he was he was a good guy.
27:13 --> 27:16 [SPEAKER_01]: He just could you felt you felt comfortable handing the reins over to him?
27:17 --> 27:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard Very foolishly Within like days of taking over he sees saladine sons army going by 5000 men takes a hundred ten-plar nice with him charges him and you can imagine how that goes Absolutely crushed
27:33 --> 27:38 [SPEAKER_01]: the grandmaster of the nice hospitalityers and the other group that we mentioned that's there.
27:38 --> 27:42 [SPEAKER_01]: He also charges with the grandmaster of the nice Templar.
27:42 --> 27:44 [SPEAKER_01]: He just killed all his men die.
27:44 --> 27:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard is among a handful of survivors of this charge.
27:49 --> 27:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, this did not stop Gerard.
27:51 --> 27:54 [SPEAKER_01]: He did not make him rethink his way of doing things even a little bit.
27:54 --> 27:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the very next time Saladin goes by with an army, you'll never guess.
27:59 --> 28:02 [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard decides, hear me out, to charge them.
28:03 --> 28:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Then that makes no sense.
28:04 --> 28:10 [SPEAKER_01]: The Saladin enters the Kingdom of Jerusalem ready for a war, but the Kingdom of Jerusalem, they have water.
28:10 --> 28:11 [SPEAKER_01]: They have food.
28:11 --> 28:12 [SPEAKER_01]: They have siege.
28:12 --> 28:13 [SPEAKER_01]: They're stopped.
28:13 --> 28:15 [SPEAKER_01]: They're not a weak kingdom.
28:15 --> 28:23 [SPEAKER_01]: They could hold their line and they could outlast or at least weaken the solidine army by waiting till they're tired to have a fight with them.
28:23 --> 28:28 [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, Gerard tells the king to write out an attack solidine as soon as he shows up.
28:29 --> 28:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Now...
28:30 --> 28:36 [SPEAKER_01]: People suggest that maybe the reason he did that was because the guy who said, no, let's stay.
28:37 --> 28:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's wait them out.
28:37 --> 28:39 [SPEAKER_01]: We have plenty of food and water.
28:39 --> 28:39 [SPEAKER_01]: We can do this.
28:40 --> 28:46 [SPEAKER_01]: The guy who said that side of things was the guy who married the daughter off who costed this guy his, but trozle.
28:47 --> 28:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And if that's true, if this nice, temperal arid was being swayed by the fact that the other side was the guy who made him bitter about that marriage, um,
28:57 --> 29:03 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people are going to die out of spite here, out of just trying to prove the other guy wrong.
29:03 --> 29:05 [SPEAKER_01]: But these are the crusader states.
29:05 --> 29:11 [SPEAKER_01]: And those little prideful personality tiff for tiff are just as much a part of these battles as any numbers on the ground.
29:12 --> 29:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And they are just as much fighting each other for personality and control and fame as they're fighting the Muslims in these wars.
29:20 --> 29:21 [SPEAKER_01]: They go to battle.
29:21 --> 29:27 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar have 149ths, and they charge a Saladin Knight of 7.
29:27 --> 29:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Now some scholars will know that number 2, I was 7.
29:30 --> 29:44 [SPEAKER_01]: It was probably 7, but regardless, they lose three people survive, one of which happens to be Gerard, and at this point you kind of wishing Gerard would just go ahead and die.
29:45 --> 29:50 [SPEAKER_01]: At most Jerusalem never had more than about 129ths at a time.
29:50 --> 29:54 [SPEAKER_01]: It just wasn't a very, they never really had a strong grip on the area.
29:54 --> 29:58 [SPEAKER_01]: The entire time Jerusalem is there, it just feels like they're hanging on by a thread.
29:59 --> 30:05 [SPEAKER_01]: So losing 149ths in a stupid charge against 7 people was just awful.
30:06 --> 30:07 [SPEAKER_01]: It was terrible.
30:07 --> 30:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard comes back.
30:09 --> 30:14 [SPEAKER_01]: He, uh, then takes the King of England's money, which has been deposited with the Knights Templar.
30:14 --> 30:17 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar will always keep your money for safekeeping.
30:17 --> 30:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Except when Gerard's in charge, he takes their money and he buys some mercenaries, and has the mercenaries try to help them join the fight against somebody.
30:25 --> 30:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Now that might sound smart.
30:26 --> 30:34 [SPEAKER_01]: but had never been done before, the nice Templar had never taken anyone's money and used it for anything else without their permission, but Gerard's going to do this.
30:34 --> 30:37 [SPEAKER_01]: He might have helped justify, hey, we're going to fight Saladin.
30:37 --> 30:38 [SPEAKER_01]: It's okay, we'll hire these mercenaries.
30:39 --> 30:41 [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be fine, but it doesn't work.
30:41 --> 30:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The mercenaries will lose, and the entire nobility of Jerusalem is captured.
30:45 --> 30:46 [SPEAKER_01]: and only a handful.
30:46 --> 30:49 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, four out of like a thousand, make it out of this.
30:50 --> 30:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Out of the 1 nights, maybe a hundred survived of 20 men, maybe 3 total live.
30:58 --> 30:59 [SPEAKER_01]: It is a disaster.
31:00 --> 31:03 [SPEAKER_01]: And 600 Templar nights go into this battle.
31:03 --> 31:05 [SPEAKER_01]: 200 of them are captured.
31:05 --> 31:08 [SPEAKER_01]: 400 of them are killed.
31:08 --> 31:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Then, Saladin tells his army, and this is a quote I'm going to read here, I will purify the land of these two impure races.
31:17 --> 31:19 [SPEAKER_01]: He's referring to the Knights Templar and the Hospitalliers.
31:20 --> 31:34 [SPEAKER_01]: He then says, I will give 50 denari, I don't know what that is, and today's money, but he is, I'll give money to every one of them who brings me a prisoner, a Knights Templar, or a Hospitallier, and immediately the army is like pulling them out like, I found one, I found one, and they get to be head them.
31:34 --> 31:53 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Saladin doesn't want to be head the Knights Templar in the Knights Hospitaliers with just anybody, not with soldiers, no, no, no, his scholars, his advisors won it on this, so he gives them in who don't fight swords to cut the heads off of the Knights Templar in hospitals.
31:53 --> 31:54 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to be gross on you.
31:55 --> 31:57 [SPEAKER_01]: But these are not the guys you want cutting your head off.
31:57 --> 31:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how you need to know what you're like.
31:58 --> 32:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want anybody to cut my head off.
32:00 --> 32:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I know me neither.
32:01 --> 32:05 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you do want somebody to cut your head off, and again, it's a gross thing to say, I'm sorry.
32:05 --> 32:13 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you do, do you want the buff well-season soldier who can slice a canalope with a single slice?
32:14 --> 32:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Or do you want the nerdy guy behind the books all day?
32:17 --> 32:20 [SPEAKER_01]: who is, you know, struggles with a butter knife through butter.
32:20 --> 32:22 [SPEAKER_01]: And everyone wants the first guy.
32:22 --> 32:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, solidine is trying to make a point.
32:25 --> 32:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he hands the swords to his scholars and let some go to town.
32:30 --> 32:31 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not good.
32:32 --> 32:33 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not a good way to go that day.
32:34 --> 32:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Every single one of them, all the Knights Templar, out of the 600 men that fight, 400 of them are killed on the battlefield.
32:41 --> 32:47 [SPEAKER_01]: The other 200 are killed by these scholars die.
32:47 --> 32:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard.
32:48 --> 32:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Gerard does not die.
32:49 --> 32:56 [SPEAKER_01]: He is taken prisoner, and against the oath of the Knights Templar, he demands to be ransomed.
32:56 --> 32:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And not just for money.
32:57 --> 33:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He tells the Knights Templar they have to pay money to save him.
33:00 --> 33:03 [SPEAKER_01]: But also, Saladin is not happy with money.
33:03 --> 33:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He wants more.
33:04 --> 33:05 [SPEAKER_01]: So he forces them.
33:06 --> 33:14 [SPEAKER_01]: He forces the Knights Templar to abandon some of their castles and give them
33:15 --> 33:21 [SPEAKER_01]: and losing ground in the land and on top of that, breaking all their oaths to do so.
33:22 --> 33:31 [SPEAKER_01]: A Gerard then goes on to another battle called Acre and at Acre, you'll never, he charges again
33:31 --> 33:36 [SPEAKER_01]: At that point, he is captured by Saladin in this time they just be hit on their down with them.
33:37 --> 33:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Single-handedly, I think, Gerard, in the five years that he runs the night's Templar, did more to damage the reputation for the night's Templar than anyone else has.
33:48 --> 33:51 [SPEAKER_01]: He caused them multiple ill-advised charges.
33:52 --> 33:56 [SPEAKER_01]: He costed literally thousands of lives in battle.
33:55 --> 33:59 [SPEAKER_01]: He ruined winnable wars for no reason.
33:59 --> 34:02 [SPEAKER_01]: He caused the Knights Templars to break their oath.
34:02 --> 34:08 [SPEAKER_01]: He absolutely damaged their reputation and he made their bravery look what was once commendable.
34:08 --> 34:10 [SPEAKER_01]: These guys would fight to the death for you.
34:10 --> 34:15 [SPEAKER_01]: There is no one to fight like them and turn them into crazy idiots such as Chargehead First and the Spears.
34:15 --> 34:25 [SPEAKER_01]: The damage done hurt them in so many ways, and not just in their reputation too, the failure to hold back Saladin led directly to Saladin taking Jerusalem.
34:26 --> 34:37 [SPEAKER_01]: For the first time in about 100 years, the jewel of the Crusader states, Jerusalem had fallen back into Muslim hands, and that was only two months after the final battle, Gerard was killed in.
34:37 --> 34:45 [SPEAKER_01]: It really seems hard to see how the nice Timplars foolishness, if it didn't help, solidine when it might have even caused solidine to win it.
34:46 --> 34:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And certainly it didn't make things better.
34:48 --> 34:51 [SPEAKER_01]: The Crusader states, then, reach out to Europe, help us out.
34:52 --> 34:55 [SPEAKER_01]: We only have this one little area left acre, and we're losing ground.
34:56 --> 34:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Can you help us out?
34:57 --> 34:58 [SPEAKER_01]: and they are answered.
34:59 --> 35:14 [SPEAKER_01]: King Philip of France and King Henry of England, currently we're at war with each other, England of France for having their own battle, but when they heard the call out to the Holy Land, they both put aside their fighting and they decided together to come out to the Holy Land and what would be called the Third Crusade, recapturing the Holy Land.
35:15 --> 35:17 [SPEAKER_01]: They also had the Emperor of Germany come with them.
35:17 --> 35:20 [SPEAKER_01]: This guy was a very old, very nice elder statesman.
35:20 --> 35:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He brought his army.
35:21 --> 35:25 [SPEAKER_01]: They were very happy to show up, but it was just hard to travel.
35:26 --> 35:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Panasi traveled, he kind of died along the way, and so he was the leader until that point, but when he died, nobody knew who to make the leader, and so the new leader became a man that goes down in history as King Richard, or known to us as Richard Levallian hearted.
35:42 --> 36:01 [SPEAKER_01]: And many people compare rich and no lion-hearted to Alexander the Great or Charlemagne or King Arthur like one of these bigger than life while the successful military men, what's wild though is unlike Alexander the Great or King Arthur or Charlemagne, we look King Arthur might not a lip, but Alexander the Great and Charlemagne are real people.
36:01 --> 36:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Charlemagne and Alexander the Great were surrounded by people who like them, who wrote down their story, you know, positively dead enemies, who wrote down the story negatively, of course, but most of the people wrote down the story of them positively, but rich are the lion heart.
36:16 --> 36:18 [SPEAKER_01]: was not liked by most of the people.
36:19 --> 36:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Historically speaking, the church saw him as greedy proud.
36:22 --> 36:24 [SPEAKER_01]: He had way too many women on the side.
36:24 --> 36:28 [SPEAKER_01]: He had at least one well-known illegitimate son to the throne.
36:29 --> 36:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Richard, in England, shouldn't have been liked by England.
36:32 --> 36:33 [SPEAKER_01]: He had no connection to England.
36:34 --> 36:36 [SPEAKER_01]: He grew up in a completely different country than England.
36:36 --> 36:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, he never expected to be the king of England.
36:39 --> 36:41 [SPEAKER_01]: His older brother or someone else was supposed to be.
36:42 --> 36:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Him and his brothers were called the quote, Devil's Brood because they partied so hard and so often.
36:48 --> 36:53 [SPEAKER_01]: But when his older brother died and his dad, the king of England, wouldn't even tell him if he would inherit the throne.
36:53 --> 36:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, am I older brother's dad?
36:54 --> 36:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Am I going to inherit the throne?
36:55 --> 36:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And the king of England was like, I don't know.
36:57 --> 36:59 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see if you've got what it takes.
36:59 --> 37:01 [SPEAKER_01]: But I could see some other people inheriting the throne.
37:01 --> 37:05 [SPEAKER_01]: So he didn't find out he was going to inherit the throne until his dad died.
37:05 --> 37:12 [SPEAKER_01]: At that point King Richard the Lionheart was 32 and had hardly ever even visited England.
37:13 --> 37:18 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he got the news he was the new King of England, he was already taking his army to the Crusades.
37:19 --> 37:23 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's like English shouldn't have really had a strong reason to like this guy.
37:24 --> 37:27 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean imagine if like the, you know, I mean imagine, I don't know, great.
37:27 --> 37:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine Abraham Lincoln or the famous historical leaders in America had spent his entire life in Canada, right?
37:32 --> 37:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Like they just doesn't sound like something that would actually happen.
37:35 --> 37:39 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's hard to imagine that person being associated in a positive way.
37:39 --> 37:50 [SPEAKER_01]: The Enlightenment, when they rewrote the histories they did not like Richard, because he wasn't very close to England, and because they didn't like the Crusades, and because they just didn't really like this guy that was larger than life.
37:50 --> 37:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Yet somehow, this in recent historians, David Hume, an 1800s, called him, quote, Bad Sun, Bad King, and Bad Husband.
37:58 --> 38:02 [SPEAKER_01]: His reputation has been attacked by everybody because of the way he lived and died.
38:03 --> 38:11 [SPEAKER_01]: King John, who would have to sign the magna carda, limiting the rights of King's forevermore, and the story of Robinhood was against King John.
38:11 --> 38:12 [SPEAKER_01]: All of this hurt his reputation.
38:12 --> 38:14 [SPEAKER_01]: King John came because of King Richard, the Lionheart.
38:15 --> 38:22 [SPEAKER_01]: So again, another problem with the King Richard, the church ripped his reputation throughout the ages, and the King's of Germany and France didn't write very lightly.
38:22 --> 38:24 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't really like Ryan already there.
38:24 --> 38:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Yet despite the fact that everybody seems to dislike this guy, he is one of the most popular kings in all of English history.
38:31 --> 38:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone is heard of this guy.
38:32 --> 38:34 [SPEAKER_01]: He's well known and he's loved.
38:34 --> 38:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Somehow, despite nobody liking him, he's one of the most famous and most liked kings.
38:39 --> 38:40 [SPEAKER_01]: How did this happen?
38:41 --> 38:45 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the things people didn't like about him was they said he was arrogant and snobby, just like other nobility.
38:46 --> 38:49 [SPEAKER_01]: But unlike other nobility, he really wasn't that snobby.
38:49 --> 38:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Like yes, he was a kingly guy, lived in noble courts, he thought he was important.
38:53 --> 38:56 [SPEAKER_01]: But something he did that was truly no one had ever seen this before.
38:56 --> 38:59 [SPEAKER_01]: There was a battle happening, and uh...
38:59 --> 39:09 [SPEAKER_01]: the middle of the crusader states they had to rebuild a wall and King Richard just rolled up his sleeves and started putting bricks up right next to the rest of the soldiers and the rest of the soldiers loved it.
39:10 --> 39:13 [SPEAKER_01]: The other kings like King of France and stuff are like what's King Richard doing?
39:13 --> 39:18 [SPEAKER_01]: That's like peasant work, all that's so embarrassing and gross, but the soldiers loved it.
39:18 --> 39:20 [SPEAKER_01]: That was just like something you didn't see.
39:20 --> 39:23 [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know really where he gets the reputation from being snobby from.
39:23 --> 39:26 [SPEAKER_01]: He seems like a really likeable guy in that way.
39:26 --> 39:31 [SPEAKER_01]: So many kings and nobles stood on ceremony, but Richard was there, just jump it in just like a regular guy.
39:32 --> 39:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Another thing that he really helped Richard, is he was extremely, and I mean extremely good with money.
39:39 --> 39:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Richard, a good example of Richard's a decency with money, comes to us from,
39:46 --> 39:48 [SPEAKER_01]: This really weird story in Cyprus.
39:48 --> 39:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Cyprus is an island kind of off the coast there, and the Middle East, you might remember it from Cyprus gets mentioned throughout different plays.
39:56 --> 39:59 [SPEAKER_01]: I think Titus and the book of the Bible is in Cyprus.
39:59 --> 40:00 [SPEAKER_01]: No, he's in Crete.
40:00 --> 40:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I only think Cyprus is one of those islands like Crete over there.
40:03 --> 40:11 [SPEAKER_01]: And as Richard came to the Holy Land with his armies, a couple of his boats got in a storm, they got off track, and they ended up in Cyprus.
40:11 --> 40:17 [SPEAKER_01]: and as they were reaching the island they began to sink, the survivors were taken prisoners by the people of Cyprus.
40:17 --> 40:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Shortly afterwards, his wife, Richard the Lionheart's wife, is going by, she sails in the harbor, and she asks the people of Cyprus, you know, can you help our men come out or know enemies of your Cyprus?
40:27 --> 40:28 [SPEAKER_01]: You can do your own thing.
40:28 --> 40:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Will the people of Cyprus say no to her and they take her prisoner too?
40:32 --> 40:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Richard shows up he's mad and when he finds out that they've taken his men and his wife, prisoner, uh, they're done.
40:40 --> 40:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Richard rolls in absolutely crushes the island of Cyprus's defenses, takes it over instantly.
40:47 --> 40:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He's not playing around at all.
40:50 --> 40:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Some people think Cyprus maybe had like a secret alliance with Saladin to kind of thwart him.
40:55 --> 40:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what was going on.
40:56 --> 40:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe Cyprus genuinely didn't understand what was coming their way.
40:59 --> 41:02 [SPEAKER_01]: But either way, he totally takes Cyprus, but he doesn't want Cyprus.
41:02 --> 41:07 [SPEAKER_01]: What does England need to bring in the island and the Mediterranean for is nothing to them.
41:07 --> 41:09 [SPEAKER_01]: But he realizes, this is a good base for Christians to have.
41:10 --> 41:11 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to give it over to the Muslims.
41:11 --> 41:12 [SPEAKER_01]: What do I do with it?
41:12 --> 41:15 [SPEAKER_01]: I know, why don't I sell it to somebody who would like it?
41:16 --> 41:18 [SPEAKER_01]: And the groupy thought of was the night's tempar.
41:18 --> 41:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, do you want this island very close to the Middle East that can be a launching ground for you?
41:23 --> 41:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And of course, the night's tempar said, yeah, that's a great idea.
41:25 --> 41:27 [SPEAKER_01]: They buy it from him.
41:27 --> 41:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Richard makes a lot of money.
41:29 --> 41:34 [SPEAKER_01]: It puts this into a strategically good allies hands, makes the nice Timpler happy.
41:34 --> 41:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's great, and it's a great example of Richard's just financial savvy doing something smart really quick.
41:41 --> 41:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Now this is actually the first time the nice Timpler rule a land.
41:45 --> 41:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Like they've rolled castles all over the Middle East, but they actually rule Cyprus, and it goes terribly disastrously.
41:55 --> 41:56 [SPEAKER_01]: not good.
41:56 --> 42:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Probably about as bad as ruling the land can go.
42:00 --> 42:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Cypress seemed perfect.
42:02 --> 42:07 [SPEAKER_01]: On paper, it had lots of resources, it had forests, fresh water, everything you could need.
42:07 --> 42:11 [SPEAKER_01]: It was close to the holy land, but as an island, you have to build boats to get there.
42:11 --> 42:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And it just, it's a little bit removed from what's going on.
42:14 --> 42:19 [SPEAKER_01]: So you're a little bit of a break between you and all the constant saladine armies going by.
42:19 --> 42:26 [SPEAKER_01]: So it should have been a really good place, and we talked about in the first episode how that night's hospitality airs took over Malta made it like a pirate base.
42:26 --> 42:27 [SPEAKER_01]: It worked out really well for them.
42:27 --> 42:33 [SPEAKER_01]: It seemed like the night's Tim Blar should have had Cyprus as their Malta, and later on it will be.
42:33 --> 42:35 [SPEAKER_01]: But the first time, no.
42:35 --> 42:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Part of it was they were super busy with the third crusade, getting Richard over there to take retake Jerusalem.
42:40 --> 42:43 [SPEAKER_01]: They just didn't have priorities to think about Cyprus right now.
42:43 --> 42:49 [SPEAKER_01]: So they send a very small group, about 100 people, plus 29ths to run Cyprus.
42:50 --> 42:55 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not enough to establish a presence or run this island, not even close.
42:55 --> 42:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, again, Jerusalem, all their energy is focused on Jerusalem.
42:58 --> 43:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't have time to deal with this, but that didn't stop them from trying to run it.
43:03 --> 43:09 [SPEAKER_01]: And these 20 men plus armies start putting rules on the island, just like they put rules on everyone else.
43:10 --> 43:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And they rule over them, they put a heavy tax on them and stake the money so they can send it back again if the
43:15 --> 43:19 [SPEAKER_01]: nice Templar, greedy, they're taxing these people of Cyprus, right?
43:19 --> 43:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the nice Templar trying to raise taxes to send it back to the battle in Jerusalem.
43:23 --> 43:28 [SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to do it as quickly as they can, but the Greek Orthodox who live in Cyprus don't appreciate that.
43:28 --> 43:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And they also don't appreciate that the Catholic nice Templar are treating them like Muslims, so nice Templar are bossing them around, being very rude, basically treating them like their
43:40 --> 43:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, we're Christians, like you.
43:42 --> 43:42 [SPEAKER_01]: What are you doing?
43:42 --> 43:43 [SPEAKER_01]: She really has this way.
43:43 --> 43:44 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't like this.
43:45 --> 43:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you guys are acting like you're better than us.
43:47 --> 43:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're on the same team here.
43:48 --> 43:49 [SPEAKER_01]: What's your deal?
43:49 --> 43:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, these Greek Orthodox were just trying to throw Richard the Lion Hearts, so they're not exactly perfect here, but still.
43:55 --> 44:07 [SPEAKER_01]: This insulted and outraged them so much, and the taxes were so heavy that the people who really liked Richard the Lionheart when he took over the city, they rioted when night's Templar were trying to run things.
44:07 --> 44:20 [SPEAKER_01]: The night's Templar were forced into a small fort in the corner of the island, and they were trying to get this army, this mob of grief or grief Orthodox to let them pass.
44:20 --> 44:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, we just want to go on a boat and leave.
44:22 --> 44:23 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll leave you alone.
44:23 --> 44:30 [SPEAKER_01]: For the Greek Orthodox here, the Cypress Islanders are angry, and they say no, we're going to kill you, we're just angry at you and we want you dead.
44:30 --> 44:35 [SPEAKER_01]: So here's the situation, one historian, I'm going to read how he puts what it goes here next.
44:35 --> 44:45 [SPEAKER_01]: On Easter Sunday morning, therefore, having heard the mass spells, the Greek Orthodox on their way to church, the nice temple are rush out.
44:45 --> 44:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And I love that it happens on Easter Sunday morning, like, oh, it's a holiday that truly the Knights Templar will leave us alone.
44:50 --> 44:51 [SPEAKER_01]: They all know they're out.
44:52 --> 45:03 [SPEAKER_01]: They rush out completely surprising the Greeks who never expected the small force of like 100 Knights Templar soldiers and 29s to actually try to brave their way out of the island on their own.
45:03 --> 45:07 [SPEAKER_01]: The Latins slew the Greeks indiscriminately like sheep.
45:07 --> 45:10 [SPEAKER_01]: The mounted Templars rose through the town.
45:10 --> 45:12 [SPEAKER_01]: just shoving their lances into anyone in their way.
45:13 --> 45:14 [SPEAKER_01]: The streets ran with blood.
45:15 --> 45:24 [SPEAKER_01]: The Templars rode through the land, sacking villages, setting things on fire, making a run, causing, fleeing to the mountains, getting to their port to safety.
45:25 --> 45:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it happened exactly like that, that's what the historian said, but boy, that's a wild and dramatic story.
45:32 --> 45:35 [SPEAKER_01]: It more likely was a little bit embellished by the same William of Tyre.
45:35 --> 45:46 [SPEAKER_01]: who are sorry, it will be a tire has a more contemporary account and he kind of sees it more as like the commander and the brothers realize the Greeks would have no mercy so they commend themselves to God and they charge in.
45:47 --> 45:53 [SPEAKER_01]: They are in themselves, fought against the Greeks, the Greeks gave them victory or sorry, they had victory against the Greeks.
45:54 --> 45:59 [SPEAKER_01]: They immediately went to acre and they explained what happened but the historian version decided more fun.
45:59 --> 46:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And they get to acre and they explain what happened and the people of acre they don't know what to do They're like we lost Cyprus what do we do or frustrated and so they go over to King Eritre who's still there and they say hey Do you want to do you want Cyprus back we we don't want to lose it to Muslims But we can't hold it and King Eritre's like I'll buy it back for you if you know like if you sell it to me
46:20 --> 46:23 [SPEAKER_01]: And so they sell him back Cyprus, so he gets like a double payment on it.
46:24 --> 46:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he sells it to the Knights Hospitaliers after that.
46:27 --> 46:30 [SPEAKER_01]: So he sells the same island three times.
46:30 --> 46:31 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a lot of money.
46:31 --> 46:36 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's what we're talking about when it comes to financial savviness of King Richard.
46:36 --> 46:41 [SPEAKER_01]: And it also gave us a good hint, a good taste of night's simpler, weren't perfect.
46:41 --> 46:45 [SPEAKER_01]: And when it came to running things, they did not always do a good job.
46:45 --> 46:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, they would eventually actually get cypress back.
46:47 --> 46:49 [SPEAKER_01]: It would be handed to them through exchanges later on.
46:49 --> 46:54 [SPEAKER_01]: And when they get it years and years down the road, cypress is actually much better run the second time.
46:54 --> 46:54 [SPEAKER_01]: They are not.
46:55 --> 46:57 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not out of control like the first time it goes pretty well.
46:58 --> 47:02 [SPEAKER_01]: A third crusade ends with Richard the Lionheart and King of France taking acre back.
47:02 --> 47:08 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't reclaim Jerusalem, but they do manage to hold acre down and that's the new capital of the Crusader states.
47:08 --> 47:18 [SPEAKER_01]: So in the Crusader states, these lands that Europe ran in the Middle East for Jerusalem, over half their time in the Crusader states in the Middle East, they don't even run Jerusalem.
47:18 --> 47:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They're just running this side city called acre, which is, in my opinion, kind of funny, kind of ironic, you know, it'd be like the United States of America, but everyone's
47:31 --> 47:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so they hold acre down, third crusade ends, looks like things were okay, things are confusing, solidings pretty strong, this isn't the best time period.
47:40 --> 47:45 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Knights Templar, despite all of their setbacks, are still seen as a pivotal force.
47:45 --> 47:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And the way you know that is when Acre surrenders the King of France and the King of England bring them out to the Knights Templar tents and have them surrender the city in front of the Knights Templar tents.
47:57 --> 48:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And on top of that the dice simpler than lead the city in a mass large baptism to basically say like this is a new Christian city in all that now once King of France and King of England leave Everyone an acre kind of goes back to living Muslim lives and whatever about that baptism, but it does give you an idea of what's happening and I mentioned that there was a German army there
48:17 --> 48:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, a German army was set up, and even though they didn't do much, and they kind of left early, they did set up their own order, and it's called the Order of Brothers of the German House St. Mary in Jerusalem, which again is not actually in Jerusalem, which I think is fun that they keep naming things after Jerusalem, even though they're not there.
48:36 --> 49:02 [SPEAKER_01]: This German order started by getting a little hospital and acre and they start to build up their own force and you know them or at least history knows them as the tutonic nights and in many ways the tutonic nights this German order will actually be the undoing of the night's Templar and I'll explain that more later, but this group is formed during the third crusade it becomes the German version of the night's Templar the tutonic nights.
49:02 --> 49:05 [SPEAKER_01]: and they are the undoing of the Knights Templar.
49:05 --> 49:09 [SPEAKER_01]: If it weren't for them, I'm not sure the Knights Templar would have gone down.
49:09 --> 49:14 [SPEAKER_01]: The fourth crusade is then again called, let's recapture Jerusalem again.
49:14 --> 49:17 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun story, but it has very little to do with the nice Templar.
49:18 --> 49:20 [SPEAKER_01]: It starts with Venice building a fleet.
49:20 --> 49:22 [SPEAKER_01]: They try to do the crusades.
49:22 --> 49:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Crusades doesn't have enough people, so they debate the fleet, so they take down a Catholic city called Zara to pay off the soldiers to go to Jerusalem, but then on the way to Jerusalem they get in a big fight with each other, so then they take Constantinople.
49:37 --> 49:42 [SPEAKER_01]: This led to several crusader states all over the place in Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire.
49:43 --> 49:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Bulgarians up north also a Christian group comes down and takes over some pieces of the action.
49:49 --> 49:57 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the Byzantine Empire from this stupid crusade gets split into three different kingdoms and doesn't reunite for another 60 years.
49:57 --> 50:00 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure this didn't help the Byzantines.
50:00 --> 50:06 [SPEAKER_01]: They've been trying to hold off the Muslims for years and being split in two three different pieces for 60 years.
50:06 --> 50:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Definitely did not help them hold the Muslims out of Europe.
50:10 --> 50:16 [SPEAKER_01]: And even when it reunited, they just never were as strong and united as they were before 60 years of splitting.
50:16 --> 50:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Kind of does that to you.
50:18 --> 50:22 [SPEAKER_01]: and a hundred and ninety years or so later they're pretty much toast from the Turks.
50:22 --> 50:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm not saying point one led directly to point two, but it definitely didn't help.
50:27 --> 50:35 [SPEAKER_01]: This didn't help the Byzantines at all, and they're going to just show us that the Christian crusades and kingdoms are getting all kind of confused.
50:35 --> 50:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Also the schism between the Greeks, the Orthodox, and the Catholics not getting better when the Catholics sack the Constantinople.
50:44 --> 50:49 [SPEAKER_01]: And the one hand, Venice won a Constantinople fault, they're their biggest trade partner.
50:49 --> 50:53 [SPEAKER_01]: So sacking them on the way to Jerusalem kind of made sense from a very political standpoint.
50:54 --> 50:59 [SPEAKER_01]: But in other ways, it's kind of culturally terrible that Constantinople fell.
50:59 --> 51:01 [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually like a real depressing thing.
51:01 --> 51:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Constantinople was the last
51:04 --> 51:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Real historical cultural like left over from the Roman days.
51:09 --> 51:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Constantinople had been around for 174 years at the time of the 4th Crusade.
51:15 --> 51:18 [SPEAKER_01]: It was the largest, most sophisticated city in Christenham.
51:18 --> 51:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, we call them the Byzantine Empire.
51:20 --> 51:23 [SPEAKER_01]: They call themselves the leftover of the Roman Empire.
51:23 --> 51:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And it was the largest medieval urban center at the time.
51:28 --> 51:29 [SPEAKER_01]: It had retained civic structures.
51:29 --> 51:32 [SPEAKER_01]: It still had the Roman public bath system.
51:32 --> 51:36 [SPEAKER_01]: It still had the forums, monuments, aqueducts, just like classical Rome.
51:37 --> 51:38 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a beautiful...
51:38 --> 51:45 [SPEAKER_01]: gorgeous city with half a million people living in about 13 miles with triple walls.
51:46 --> 52:03 [SPEAKER_01]: There was no other city like it in all of Europe and it was historical and beautiful and it stood for so much and it was a thriving part of the Eastern Roman Empire here and a commercial powerhouse that gets destroyed not by Muslims, but by Christians.
52:04 --> 52:10 [SPEAKER_01]: all of these, I mean, through Constantinople, all the trade of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, China, Indian Persia.
52:10 --> 52:12 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's not like it had never been attacked before.
52:12 --> 52:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Vikings have attacked it, Muslims have gone after it.
52:15 --> 52:22 [SPEAKER_01]: It had been attacked, but the be destroyed by a crusade from the Republic of Venice just doesn't look good.
52:22 --> 52:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And it doesn't look organized, and it really seems like a mess.
52:25 --> 52:27 [SPEAKER_01]: The fifth crusade went about as well.
52:28 --> 52:29 [SPEAKER_01]: People are going to go reclaim Jerusalem.
52:30 --> 52:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They fight in Syria for a while.
52:31 --> 52:37 [SPEAKER_01]: They decide the best way to retake Jerusalem was to take Egypt again for some reason.
52:37 --> 52:42 [SPEAKER_01]: At one point, they actually took some cities in Egypt and the Sultan of Egypt says, hey!
52:42 --> 52:45 [SPEAKER_01]: if you leave Egypt, I will give you Jerusalem.
52:45 --> 52:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I run Jerusalem right now.
52:46 --> 52:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll give you, I know you want Jerusalem.
52:48 --> 52:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Let me have Egypt and you guys have Jerusalem.
52:51 --> 52:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And that seemed like a great deal for the Crusaders, so they don't take it obviously because they never make good decisions.
52:57 --> 53:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and instead describe by the way, the Sultan was Saladine's like younger brother, um, and they decide not to.
53:03 --> 53:15 [SPEAKER_01]: They try to take Egypt on themselves, and they end up getting slaughtered led by the Knights Timpler, the Tutonic Knights, and the Knights Hospitaliers, and an army from Germany and France, they charge into a battle, and they get slaughtered.
53:15 --> 53:20 [SPEAKER_01]: They lose the cities they conquered in Egypt, and they also do not reclaim Jerusalem.
53:21 --> 53:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Changes had taken place on the ground and the Knights Templar.
53:26 --> 53:35 [SPEAKER_01]: For example, the Knights Templar grandmaster, up until this point, we've seen like they had these strict oaths that they lived under penance and you couldn't own things, et cetera.
53:35 --> 53:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the grandmaster is no longer underneath these rules quite as much.
53:40 --> 53:42 [SPEAKER_01]: He now had a caravan as he traveled.
53:42 --> 53:44 [SPEAKER_01]: He had a few squires to help him out.
53:45 --> 53:46 [SPEAKER_01]: He had a couple translators.
53:47 --> 53:50 [SPEAKER_01]: He would carry some wealth with him just to be useful.
53:51 --> 53:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And that sounds bad.
53:52 --> 53:53 [SPEAKER_01]: You can say awesome.
53:53 --> 53:54 [SPEAKER_01]: The grandmaster did become greedy.
53:55 --> 54:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he was living greedy or the previous grandmasters had, but if you compare it to Indy, Amterrage of any kind of like actual idea of the other kings and not even close.
54:06 --> 54:09 [SPEAKER_01]: He lived very austerely compared to them.
54:09 --> 54:14 [SPEAKER_01]: But just compared to previous grandmasters, the Knights Templars were loosening up a little bit.
54:15 --> 54:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you look at how much money they had, he could have built a giant mercenary, entourage for sure.
54:20 --> 54:23 [SPEAKER_01]: So he is still living very austere based on how much money he has, but they're loosening.
54:24 --> 54:26 [SPEAKER_01]: They're getting a little more relaxed.
54:26 --> 54:30 [SPEAKER_01]: The rules quite aren't quite as strict as they used to be.
54:30 --> 54:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, not everything was always crusades to either, during the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, the nice group Templar will take up a very active role fighting the Muslims in Spain and Portugal as a part of Reconquista, and this is a huge important part of what the Templar are doing.
54:48 --> 54:56 [SPEAKER_01]: we think of them in the Crusades, but they're over there in Spain and Portugal taking back Spain and Portugal from the Muslims as well.
54:56 --> 54:59 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a part of their story that's often completely forgotten.
54:59 --> 55:01 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean the nice Templars spread out all over the world.
55:01 --> 55:07 [SPEAKER_01]: They have bases in France, they have a lot of land in Italy, they're fighting Muslims in Spain and Portugal.
55:07 --> 55:08 [SPEAKER_01]: and also they're finding in the Middle East.
55:08 --> 55:09 [SPEAKER_01]: So they're all over the place.
55:10 --> 55:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we will cover them a little bit when we look at the dissolution because it is important what happened to them.
55:15 --> 55:21 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, world history is shaped by the Knights Timblar and Portugal and Spain, but one step at a time.
55:21 --> 55:23 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's just something worth mentioning.
55:23 --> 55:39 [SPEAKER_01]: At any one time, 10% of all Knights Templar will be serving in different battles, and in those battles, it's not uncommon for every single Knights Templar to die as you've seen in their charges, but all the other 90% of the Knights Templar are serving in secondary roles.
55:40 --> 55:45 [SPEAKER_01]: They're overseeing funds, they're watching over a state, they're helping pilgrims kind of get coming going.
55:45 --> 55:47 [SPEAKER_01]: So they have, it's a big organization.
55:48 --> 55:53 [SPEAKER_01]: The face of it is these nights fighting in the Middle East and fighting over to Spain and Portugal, but there's people all over doing other things.
55:54 --> 55:56 [SPEAKER_01]: And these people all live by these very strict rules.
55:56 --> 56:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Here are some more rules as telling me about the rules a lot, dealing in the first episode.
56:00 --> 56:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's another batch of rules.
56:01 --> 56:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted you to hear some more.
56:03 --> 56:04 [SPEAKER_01]: These are fun.
56:05 --> 56:08 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't take a bath as a night's Timpler without permission.
56:10 --> 56:13 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't take medicine as a night's Timpler without permission.
56:14 --> 56:21 [SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't adjust your armor or your weapons or your stirrups without permission.
56:22 --> 56:24 [SPEAKER_01]: I imagine in battle that was loosened up a bit.
56:24 --> 56:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't imagine he was like, I need to clean off my blade, permission and master, but I mean, still the fact that that rule exists at all is pretty crazy if you ask me.
56:33 --> 56:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're wearing armor and you can't adjust it.
56:36 --> 56:42 [SPEAKER_01]: You can't sleep around with women that makes sense, but we talked about in the first episode how you weren't allowed to hug your parents.
56:42 --> 56:52 [SPEAKER_01]: There's even more though, if you overheard a guy talking about women just talking like a pretty girl or something like, my sister is getting married and she's quite a beauty.
56:53 --> 56:54 [SPEAKER_01]: You had to tell him, no, stop.
56:54 --> 56:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell you listen to that.
56:56 --> 56:59 [SPEAKER_01]: If he doesn't silence, you have to walk away.
56:59 --> 57:01 [SPEAKER_01]: That is a rule on the paper.
57:02 --> 57:12 [SPEAKER_01]: If a guy keeps talking about, you know, you're at a restaurant, I guess I don't know if they did restaurants, but you're somewhere and someone overneed nearby, won't stop talking about a girl, his wife or whatever.
57:13 --> 57:17 [SPEAKER_01]: They had strict rules on how to hang their clothing and how to put their armor on.
57:17 --> 57:19 [SPEAKER_01]: You had to put it on and do it exact.
57:19 --> 57:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Dry your clothes off.
57:19 --> 57:21 [SPEAKER_01]: You got to do it exactly the way they tell you.
57:22 --> 57:27 [SPEAKER_01]: If you have armor in a horse, so let's say you are a nobleman and you come and join the nice tempar.
57:28 --> 57:33 [SPEAKER_01]: If you had armor in a horse, at any point, the grandmaster can look at you and tell you to give it away.
57:33 --> 57:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And you have to do so without complaining at all.
57:38 --> 57:39 [SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't keep a letter from home.
57:40 --> 57:48 [SPEAKER_01]: If a home writes you a letter, and I imagine if they're writing you a letter, it's probably important, like your younger brother died a plague, or something like that.
57:48 --> 57:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if they write you a letter from home, you aren't allowed to keep it.
57:51 --> 57:58 [SPEAKER_01]: But you can ask a brother to read it to you, which I think is again crazy.
57:58 --> 58:01 [SPEAKER_01]: You had to explain every bit of money on you at all times.
58:02 --> 58:08 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're carrying money, you have to explain where you got it from, what you're planning to do with it, and why you're holding onto it.
58:09 --> 58:15 [SPEAKER_01]: If you have money on you when you die, and it's not the amount of money, they thought you should have.
58:15 --> 58:18 [SPEAKER_01]: So you're less for some reason and no one can explain it.
58:18 --> 58:20 [SPEAKER_01]: It looks like you spent some money on yourself.
58:20 --> 58:24 [SPEAKER_01]: Or you're more for some reason and they don't know where you got it from.
58:24 --> 58:30 [SPEAKER_01]: You were considered a wicked man who had broken your oath and they would no longer treat you like a night's tempar.
58:30 --> 58:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They would disown you.
58:31 --> 58:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Which by the way, okay, if they're greedy for money, it's definitely not the average night's tempar guy.
58:37 --> 58:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Because if he has an extra gold piece on them that no one could explain, he's considered guilty and wicked.
58:42 --> 58:46 [SPEAKER_01]: So, if there's greed in the night's Templar, it's only at the top.
58:46 --> 58:51 [SPEAKER_01]: It's definitely not a part of the middleman in the bottom and because their hosts are swearing off all money.
58:52 --> 58:56 [SPEAKER_01]: You have to keep a candlelight on at all times of the night if possible.
58:56 --> 58:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure why.
58:59 --> 59:02 [SPEAKER_01]: You should sleep fully closed at night.
59:02 --> 59:03 [SPEAKER_01]: They're in the desert.
59:03 --> 59:06 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess it does get cold in the desert, I've heard, but still.
59:08 --> 59:14 [SPEAKER_01]: In battle, you can only charge wind-hold, but you must charge wind-told.
59:15 --> 59:17 [SPEAKER_01]: You must always keep the banner flag waving.
59:18 --> 59:23 [SPEAKER_01]: If you save someone's life, you're not allowed to mention it or brag about it.
59:25 --> 59:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Those are tough rules.
59:26 --> 59:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Imagine saving someone's life in battle, and you're not even allowed to tell anybody you have to just keep it to yourself.
59:31 --> 59:34 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess that would make you pretty humble, but that would also be really hard to do.
59:35 --> 59:37 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to be honest with you.
59:39 --> 59:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like people will hear about it.
59:40 --> 59:42 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like there'll be some stories.
59:44 --> 59:44 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not allowed to do that.
59:45 --> 59:56 [SPEAKER_01]: And you must charge when told, which means if it's overwhelming that you're going to lose this battle, but the grandmaster says, charge, you have to, even though you know you will die.
59:57 --> 01:00:00 [SPEAKER_01]: You're expected to share food, but you aren't allowed to hunt.
01:00:01 --> 01:00:07 [SPEAKER_01]: You could gamble, but only with tint pegs and candles because they were considered valueless.
01:00:07 --> 01:00:12 [SPEAKER_01]: You were not allowed to play chess or backgammon, which they had back then.
01:00:12 --> 01:00:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I knew chess was very old, but I did not know that backgammon was that old, but I've also never played backgammon, so I don't know much about it.
01:00:19 --> 01:00:22 [SPEAKER_01]: However, you're not allowed to play as a nice Timblar.
01:00:22 --> 01:00:25 [SPEAKER_01]: That chess evil game that it is.
01:00:25 --> 01:00:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, on Monty Thursday, the is a port part of, you know, uh, the Easter week and their in the Catholic tradition the nice Templar master had to clean 13 poor people's feet until he could get some and then give them clean clothing.
01:00:40 --> 01:00:48 [SPEAKER_01]: When you were in trouble, you might be put in shackles, and you'd have to eat sitting on the floor in penance.
01:00:48 --> 01:00:50 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this sounds like a cult.
01:00:50 --> 01:00:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I mean, where does the line between Knights Timblar begin and the cult begin?
01:00:56 --> 01:01:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, if you're in trouble, they shackle you and make you eat on the floor.
01:01:01 --> 01:01:03 [SPEAKER_01]: And you could be in trouble for a having a letter from home.
01:01:04 --> 01:01:04 [SPEAKER_01]: That seems insane.
01:01:06 --> 01:01:17 [SPEAKER_01]: If you leave for two nights, a brother is considered to have broken his oath for a year and has treated punish, like basically he's not a brother in Christ anymore for a year till he's lived up there as punishment.
01:01:17 --> 01:01:22 [SPEAKER_01]: If you leave for two nights, I don't even know what that means.
01:01:22 --> 01:01:24 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, if you travel, I don't know what's going on.
01:01:24 --> 01:01:27 [SPEAKER_01]: You're a lot really for one night, though, which I find kind of interesting.
01:01:29 --> 01:01:31 [SPEAKER_01]: By this point, the Crusades were kind of old hat.
01:01:31 --> 01:01:32 [SPEAKER_01]: People were tired of them.
01:01:32 --> 01:01:33 [SPEAKER_01]: It's been 120 years.
01:01:34 --> 01:01:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Jerusalem has been lost for over 3 decades.
01:01:36 --> 01:01:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Every attempt to reclaim Jerusalem since the 3rd Crusade has failed.
01:01:40 --> 01:01:42 [SPEAKER_01]: The basketball Crusades have been all over the place.
01:01:43 --> 01:01:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The Muslims had become quite united.
01:01:45 --> 01:01:48 [SPEAKER_01]: They seem to have gotten stronger from all the fighting, not weaker.
01:01:48 --> 01:01:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Crusaders just kept forming more new, tiny little kingdoms, it was getting really hard to justify all these failed Crusades.
01:01:55 --> 01:01:58 [SPEAKER_01]: But the nice Templar were not having the same problems, they were.
01:01:59 --> 01:02:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Most of the reason was things were going well.
01:02:01 --> 01:02:08 [SPEAKER_01]: Part of the reason the 5th Crusade went so bad was the German Holy Roman Emperor who would promise to be a part of it did not end up getting to the Holy Land on time.
01:02:08 --> 01:02:10 [SPEAKER_01]: this guy is weird.
01:02:11 --> 01:02:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Every crusade has like one guy that's kind of the leader of it, you know, Richard the Lion Hard or whoever it is.
01:02:18 --> 01:02:21 [SPEAKER_01]: And the fifth one, it's a guy named Frederick II.
01:02:22 --> 01:02:26 [SPEAKER_01]: And he promised to do a crusade and return to Jerusalem to Christians in 1215.
01:02:27 --> 01:02:29 [SPEAKER_01]: He was the king of the Romans.
01:02:29 --> 01:02:30 [SPEAKER_01]: He had gotten the name of.
01:02:31 --> 01:02:33 [SPEAKER_01]: He will end up being the king of Italy.
01:02:33 --> 01:02:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Sicily the holy Roman Empire, Germany, and Jerusalem by 1225.
01:02:38 --> 01:02:43 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's a lot of places he's kings under basically by family alliances and stuff.
01:02:43 --> 01:02:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Hence the king of the Romans, he runs the holy Roman Empire, he runs Rome, and he runs Jerusalem.
01:02:48 --> 01:02:51 [SPEAKER_01]: But how can he be a king of Jerusalem if you don't actually run Jerusalem?
01:02:52 --> 01:02:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, he married the daughter of the king, thus becoming the king, right?
01:02:55 --> 01:03:00 [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like a good plan, but you rule a kingdom that you don't actually own, and that he doesn't like.
01:03:01 --> 01:03:11 [SPEAKER_01]: So, Barley reason, he became King of Jerusalem as because of this marriage, but he wants to actually go on the land that he raised the King of, so he has to put permission for his six crusade and the Pope's, like, sure, go for it.
01:03:11 --> 01:03:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Frederick Gathers a large army, and by the year 2012-27, about 12 years after the fifth crusade, he was supposed to go to, but couldn't, he's ready to set sail.
01:03:21 --> 01:03:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, many of his men, though, caught the plague right off the bat, and it was huge epidemic, tons of his men died.
01:03:27 --> 01:03:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Frederick himself almost died.
01:03:29 --> 01:03:33 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Pope threatened to excommunicate him if he didn't go on the crusade.
01:03:33 --> 01:03:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, you didn't go on the 5th crusade like you promised you would.
01:03:36 --> 01:03:37 [SPEAKER_01]: You're the King of Jerusalem.
01:03:38 --> 01:03:40 [SPEAKER_01]: You've wasted years not going on this crusade.
01:03:40 --> 01:03:43 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't go this time, I'm excommunicating you.
01:03:43 --> 01:03:44 [SPEAKER_01]: He's got plague.
01:03:45 --> 01:03:46 [SPEAKER_01]: He just lost a bunch of men.
01:03:46 --> 01:03:48 [SPEAKER_01]: This is not how you started crusade.
01:03:49 --> 01:03:56 [SPEAKER_01]: But he goes, one of his most important advisors also dies at sea of the plague while they're heading out.
01:03:57 --> 01:03:59 [SPEAKER_01]: And he still gets excommunicated anyway.
01:03:59 --> 01:04:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Now why is the pope excommunicating this king?
01:04:03 --> 01:04:06 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not because the guy is sick and didn't go to the crusades.
01:04:07 --> 01:04:14 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason this guy is going to excommunicate is the king is making, the pope is making a bid for power.
01:04:14 --> 01:04:19 [SPEAKER_01]: The Pope is trying to basically exert his right to I'm ruling Europe, not these kings.
01:04:20 --> 01:04:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is his first bit over the next few decades, the Pope and the kings are going to battle who really runs Europe.
01:04:27 --> 01:04:32 [SPEAKER_01]: And it kind of all opens with this one Pope, excommunicating this plague-ridden king.
01:04:32 --> 01:04:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the king goes.
01:04:34 --> 01:04:38 [SPEAKER_01]: and the king lands in a Jerusalem, but now he doesn't have the Pope's blessing.
01:04:38 --> 01:04:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Technically, this is no longer a crusade, and further he finds out that the Pope has been leading his troops into his lands in Italy and taking them back because they're no longer blessed by the Pope, and so his territories are wide open to attack.
01:04:52 --> 01:04:57 [SPEAKER_01]: So as he's trying to take Jerusalem, he's losing land in Italy because of the stupid excommunication.
01:04:58 --> 01:05:04 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he gets to, and then at least, his wife, the Queen of Jerusalem, dies, giving birth to an infant son.
01:05:05 --> 01:05:10 [SPEAKER_01]: So now he's not the king of Jerusalem, his son is, but his son is a baby.
01:05:11 --> 01:05:13 [SPEAKER_01]: What better way to end back favor with the people?
01:05:14 --> 01:05:14 [SPEAKER_01]: He thinks so.
01:05:14 --> 01:05:16 [SPEAKER_01]: The becoming the Jerusalem's liberator.
01:05:17 --> 01:05:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, okay, well, I don't know what's going on, but I'm gonna go ahead and do what I said out to do.
01:05:21 --> 01:05:25 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna take Jerusalem, maybe the copin' everyone will light me more after I take Jerusalem.
01:05:26 --> 01:05:35 [SPEAKER_01]: So the Sultan of Egypt, the guy from before tried to make a deal with the last crusaders, the brother of Saladin, sees this guy coming and goes, hey, I am open to making a deal with you.
01:05:36 --> 01:05:39 [SPEAKER_01]: I will give you Jerusalem if you will help me fight Damascus.
01:05:39 --> 01:06:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Furthermore, when he arrived at the Holy Land, the night's, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the
01:06:06 --> 01:06:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Very shortly after arriving, Frederick the Great saw a castle that the Knights Templar had built.
01:06:12 --> 01:06:16 [SPEAKER_01]: And this castle was for pilgrims, but it was the Mac Daddy of Castles.
01:06:16 --> 01:06:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is like, you know, what's the hottest newest car in the market?
01:06:20 --> 01:06:21 [SPEAKER_01]: This is that one, right?
01:06:21 --> 01:06:27 [SPEAKER_01]: This thing is so nice that the Knights Templar had spent 10 years building this castle.
01:06:28 --> 01:06:31 [SPEAKER_01]: It had room for 4 people to hold it in siege.
01:06:31 --> 01:06:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember the Knights Templar barely ever had more than like 600 people tops.
01:06:35 --> 01:06:37 [SPEAKER_01]: What do they even need for a thousand people for?
01:06:38 --> 01:06:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I had a ponds, it had farmland, it had mines, not mines like blow up mines like copper mines and digging mines you could make weapons from it.
01:06:48 --> 01:06:54 [SPEAKER_01]: It had gardens, it had freshwater springs, it even had a shipyard that led to the sea.
01:06:54 --> 01:07:07 [SPEAKER_01]: This is, I mean, this is the best castle you could possibly have, and this is, I mean, look, if you're calling the Knights Templar Gritty, they're not, but also they just built the nicest castle in the entire Middle East.
01:07:08 --> 01:07:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is not something poor people could build.
01:07:11 --> 01:07:14 [SPEAKER_01]: It took a lot of time effort and it was really, really good.
01:07:14 --> 01:07:34 [SPEAKER_01]: but also this king once he sees it he goes I need that that's mine you got to give it to me and by the way this fortress and all of the fighting in all of the land it is never actually conquered the only reason the Knights Templar gave it up is because they lost everything else so they abandoned it but it never actually got conquered by anybody it's that good of a fortress
01:07:34 --> 01:07:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Federer says, give it to me, I want to.
01:07:36 --> 01:07:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I must have it.
01:07:36 --> 01:07:37 [SPEAKER_01]: It's got to be mine.
01:07:37 --> 01:07:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Knights Templar go over our dead bodies.
01:07:41 --> 01:07:42 [SPEAKER_01]: We will not give this to you.
01:07:42 --> 01:07:43 [SPEAKER_01]: We will fight you for it.
01:07:44 --> 01:07:45 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Federer thinks about it.
01:07:45 --> 01:07:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He's going to like, well, no, it's way too well defended.
01:07:49 --> 01:07:51 [SPEAKER_01]: This castle would be too hard to take.
01:07:52 --> 01:07:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Fine.
01:07:52 --> 01:07:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to fight the Knights Templar.
01:07:54 --> 01:07:55 [SPEAKER_01]: This does not make them happy.
01:07:55 --> 01:08:01 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'd simpler in the hospitaliers are me like, okay, who's this guy coming in here taking our castles from us?
01:08:01 --> 01:08:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Also, he is excommunicated, so we work too closely with him.
01:08:05 --> 01:08:08 [SPEAKER_01]: The Pope might get mad at us what do we do?
01:08:10 --> 01:08:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Things got worse, Frederick made a deal.
01:08:13 --> 01:08:15 [SPEAKER_01]: He made a deal with that sultan.
01:08:15 --> 01:08:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Now commentators and secular historians today think this is a shrewd, really sneaky, good deal from Frederick.
01:08:22 --> 01:08:24 [SPEAKER_01]: But it was a terrible deal from Frederick.
01:08:24 --> 01:08:25 [SPEAKER_01]: It was awful.
01:08:25 --> 01:08:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Christians were given control of Jerusalem for helping out the Sultan and some stuff.
01:08:29 --> 01:08:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that sounds nice, but the deal said, Jerusalem would never fully be run by Christians.
01:08:35 --> 01:08:40 [SPEAKER_01]: It was loaned to them by the Sultan of Egypt for 10 years and 10 months.
01:08:41 --> 01:08:44 [SPEAKER_01]: You could not do anything to refortify Jerusalem during that time.
01:08:44 --> 01:08:45 [SPEAKER_01]: You could not rebuild the walls.
01:08:46 --> 01:08:47 [SPEAKER_01]: You could not fortify the gates.
01:08:47 --> 01:08:49 [SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't build extra castles.
01:08:49 --> 01:08:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing.
01:08:50 --> 01:08:57 [SPEAKER_01]: It said none of the military orders, Knights Templar, Hospitaliers, none of them could reclaim their bases, but the castle's nothing.
01:08:57 --> 01:08:59 [SPEAKER_01]: They couldn't enter the city for nothing.
01:08:59 --> 01:09:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody could go attack Egypt ever.
01:09:02 --> 01:09:06 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Knights Templar were forbidden from going to the Temple Mount.
01:09:07 --> 01:09:16 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar named after the Temple Mount where they formed themselves weren't allowed to go to the Temple Mount.
01:09:17 --> 01:09:22 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the Temple Mount was declared for bitten to all Christians.
01:09:23 --> 01:09:31 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the deal that this guy Frederick II made with the Sultan of Egypt to not attack Egypt and take Jerusalem.
01:09:31 --> 01:09:35 [SPEAKER_01]: not that you attack Egypt and also to take Jerusalem, not that Jerusalem's in Egypt.
01:09:36 --> 01:09:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Now then he went into Jerusalem and this guy, Frederick II, then made himself even though technically a son should have been the king.
01:09:44 --> 01:09:57 [SPEAKER_01]: He had himself King, crowned King of Jerusalem, and the crown put on his head in the Holy Sepulchur Church of Jerusalem, which is also a big slap in the face of everybody.
01:09:58 --> 01:10:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And one source says, after Frederick's first night in Jerusalem, the emperor said to a complaint to the people there, saying, why didn't the Muslims do their call to prayer last night?
01:10:08 --> 01:10:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And they said, in the humble slaves didn't prevent them out of regard and respect for your majesty.
01:10:15 --> 01:10:18 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, you're a Christian, you know, you're a Christian king.
01:10:18 --> 01:10:31 [SPEAKER_01]: We stopped the Muslims from doing the call to prayer, but Frederick is supposed to have said, quote, my chief aim in passing the night in Jerusalem was to hear the call to prayer given by the Muslims and listen to their praises to Allah and the night.
01:10:33 --> 01:10:34 [SPEAKER_01]: that made everybody mad.
01:10:35 --> 01:10:41 [SPEAKER_01]: The Christians and the nice Templar are like, who is this guy who side is he on?
01:10:41 --> 01:10:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Cause he sounds like he's on their side.
01:10:43 --> 01:10:43 [SPEAKER_01]: ours.
01:10:44 --> 01:10:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He's also excommunicated and people are starting to go, I get why the Pope excommunicated this guy.
01:10:49 --> 01:10:54 [SPEAKER_01]: He's an apostate or if he's a Christian, he's a terrible one or he's an atheist.
01:10:55 --> 01:10:57 [SPEAKER_01]: The Muslims also did not like him.
01:10:58 --> 01:11:02 [SPEAKER_01]: The Muslim sources quote, the Muslim sources greatly confused by Frederick's behavior.
01:11:03 --> 01:11:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Solomon is an emperor who's interest in the recovery of Jerusalem was actually meager.
01:11:08 --> 01:11:12 [SPEAKER_01]: His sympathy for his own religion was skinelessly slight.
01:11:12 --> 01:11:19 [SPEAKER_01]: For Muslims, quote, on their own rules, it is clear that he was a materialist, and that is Christianity was simply just a game for him.
01:11:19 --> 01:11:29 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Muslims found this offensive, on the Islamic principle, that adherence to the religion of each book must observe the book correctly in their principles.
01:11:30 --> 01:11:38 [SPEAKER_01]: So this guy is making the Knights Timbler, the Knights Hospitaliers, the Christians knat of them, he's made the Pope knat of them, and he's making the Muslims even knat.
01:11:38 --> 01:11:44 [SPEAKER_01]: The Muslims are going like, hey, like, we're not Christians, but we find it embarrassing how not Christian your guy is.
01:11:45 --> 01:11:51 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Timbler and others begin gathering forces, they're going to run a crusade against Frederick II.
01:11:51 --> 01:12:04 [SPEAKER_01]: So Frederick is ready to go to war with the Knights Templars, so now we have a battle between the Christian, supposedly Christian Crusader forces and the Knights Templar and the Sultan of Damascus is also really mad at Frederick II because he's like, hey, you're fighting in the land.
01:12:04 --> 01:12:06 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you not to do this breaks the truth.
01:12:06 --> 01:12:08 [SPEAKER_01]: Drew sums back to me.
01:12:08 --> 01:12:37 [SPEAKER_01]: and according to a contemporary historian at the time um then out of nowhere Frederick the second uh tries to kidnap the grandmaster and take him back in chains and this is just not going well Frederick is also putting out a ton of negative propaganda against them everywhere he's writing letters telling people the nice Templar control freaks are greedy they're stupid they're assassins are evil you can't trust them blah blah blah blah blah because the nice Templar you know getting ready to crusade him out of Jerusalem because he looks like he just
01:12:37 --> 01:12:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The problem with any propaganda, though, is people naturally don't agree with all the propaganda, but people have a hard time not agreeing with some of it.
01:12:46 --> 01:12:47 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is true even today.
01:12:47 --> 01:12:54 [SPEAKER_01]: When you hear a bunch of people saying things, you may say, well, I know not all of that's true, but your heart believes a little piece of it.
01:12:54 --> 01:12:55 [SPEAKER_01]: That's why propaganda works.
01:12:55 --> 01:13:04 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't normally convince you that the enemies, the barbarians at the gate are going to destroy and eat all your family, but it will convince you that there are barbarians at the gates.
01:13:05 --> 01:13:06 [SPEAKER_01]: They always agree with some of it.
01:13:07 --> 01:13:11 [SPEAKER_01]: This again, once again, hurting the reputation of the Knights Timbler by a guy who just seems to be cookie.
01:13:12 --> 01:13:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Frederick laid siege to the Knights Timbler and acre at least to a long battle.
01:13:16 --> 01:13:23 [SPEAKER_01]: He didn't win, but he did something kind of sneaky, which is he put Bowman all like archers all over the land.
01:13:23 --> 01:13:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And wherever the Knights Timbler were, they had these, I mean, they're spread out, they're sending messages back and forth, but these guys who send messages anytime they try to do so, an archer would just kind of like snipe them out of nowhere and kill them.
01:13:35 --> 01:13:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Completely like destroying the communication lines between the Knights Templar and for like all the weird stuff about Frederick the second I got to admit that was a pretty smart idea like you don't see anyone else thinking of that I'm just gonna put Scypher's all over the land and whenever the Knights Templar tried to talk to each other They just get killed you don't have to fight them out and you've completely wrecked them that way
01:13:55 --> 01:14:13 [SPEAKER_01]: rather than the second isn't doing well so he leaves acre and goes back to Sicily he has to go reclaim his own lands because his father-in-law the former king of Jerusalem has been conquering them with the Pope's permission so he's kind of like I've done with king of Jerusalem stuff you guys can have this stupid crown I'm on my way out
01:14:13 --> 01:14:26 [SPEAKER_01]: As he left he had to leave by like the peasants direction out of Acre which was kind of like where the poor people were and it says that the peasants were pelting his His entourage with mud and rocks the people of Acre hated him.
01:14:27 --> 01:14:32 [SPEAKER_01]: They saw him as a trader You know, you came to get Jerusalem and you basically handed it to the Muslims
01:14:32 --> 01:14:34 [SPEAKER_01]: When he gets back to Sicily, he is all his stuff.
01:14:35 --> 01:14:46 [SPEAKER_01]: He does reclaim his lands, and then he goes and confiscates all the property of the Knights Templar as like a revenge tour, so he takes a bunch of land from them in Italy, and a bunch of land from them, and Sicily as well.
01:14:47 --> 01:14:49 [SPEAKER_01]: The Pope tries to get him to give it back.
01:14:49 --> 01:14:52 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar, like, hey, this dude stole our land, what's going on?
01:14:52 --> 01:15:20 [SPEAKER_01]: the Pope doesn't get it back for 10 years Frederick the second keeps it and eventually he gets excommunicated a second time because he won't get the 9th Templar their stuff back, which I don't really understand how excommunications work and how you can get excommunicated a second time any of that but anyway this hurts the 9th Templar the next Templar land all over the world but they no longer have any land in Sicily and Italy because of
01:15:20 --> 01:15:22 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the sixth crusade.
01:15:23 --> 01:15:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, I don't know about you, but that was pretty unclear how that worked out.
01:15:27 --> 01:15:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, once again, these personalities and the people running the crusades, cause more trouble than any of the actual fighting seems to.
01:15:35 --> 01:15:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, the Sultan of Damascus, once in any of the Crusades, actually allies with a nice Templar, and it's like, hey, let's go take the Sultan of Egypt down ourselves.
01:15:44 --> 01:15:45 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't need Europe's health.
01:15:45 --> 01:15:48 [SPEAKER_01]: We're tough, serious, and we don't like Egyptians.
01:15:48 --> 01:15:51 [SPEAKER_01]: You guys in the nice Templar, we know you want Jerusalem.
01:15:51 --> 01:15:52 [SPEAKER_01]: You can have Jerusalem.
01:15:52 --> 01:15:54 [SPEAKER_01]: We'll take down the Sultan of Egypt and everyone's happy.
01:15:54 --> 01:15:56 [SPEAKER_01]: And this seemed really happy.
01:15:56 --> 01:15:57 [SPEAKER_01]: They did very well.
01:15:57 --> 01:16:03 [SPEAKER_01]: They started taking on the Sultan of Egypt, and the Sultan who runs Egypt kind of goes, I need help.
01:16:03 --> 01:16:07 [SPEAKER_01]: And so he hires a group of mercenaries, an army of 12 Turks.
01:16:07 --> 01:16:10 [SPEAKER_01]: These guys were actually originally from southern Russia.
01:16:10 --> 01:16:17 [SPEAKER_01]: They were probably at one point orthodox Greeks, and were forced to convert to Islam when the Turks took over the area.
01:16:17 --> 01:16:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And they were brutal killing machines.
01:16:20 --> 01:16:25 [SPEAKER_01]: They're called the Mamaloox, and they are some of the meanest people that ever fought in human history.
01:16:26 --> 01:16:32 [SPEAKER_01]: They rode horses, they rode down from Turkey, and they just immediately started thrashing the Holy Land.
01:16:32 --> 01:16:33 [SPEAKER_01]: They took out.
01:16:33 --> 01:16:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Syria was a bit too much for them so they just swept on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Crusaders They set everything they could on fire.
01:16:40 --> 01:16:52 [SPEAKER_01]: They killed everybody in Jerusalem that they could on July 11th of that year They attacked they just break through Jerusalem slaughtering slaughter and killing a garrison of like it's for six weeks People try to hold outside the castle and
01:16:52 --> 01:17:00 [SPEAKER_01]: About 6 men women and children make a run for the city to get to a nearby port, but 300 of them make it out.
01:17:00 --> 01:17:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Like so 5% of the original people actually make it to safety.
01:17:05 --> 01:17:06 [SPEAKER_01]: That's how rough the mom looks are.
01:17:06 --> 01:17:10 [SPEAKER_01]: They kill, they destroy, they burn the church of the Holy Sepulchardown.
01:17:10 --> 01:17:12 [SPEAKER_01]: They destroy all the bones of the former kings.
01:17:12 --> 01:17:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Anything they can, they're setting on fire, pillaging, destroying.
01:17:15 --> 01:17:21 [SPEAKER_01]: and this I mean Jerusalem is just up and smoke when they're done and then they go down and destroy even more.
01:17:21 --> 01:17:37 [SPEAKER_01]: This is devastating sent the crusaders way back and it really makes you wonder if the crusaders had never allied with the Muslim Syrians with the Egyptians and reached out to these really brutal mercenaries for help probably not and Jerusalem would have probably stayed in their hands but it didn't.
01:17:37 --> 01:17:54 [SPEAKER_01]: The largest force of French and Nice Templar at Hospitaliers, pretty much of all time, come together around this time and they're launching a attack on the Sultan of Egypt and they go to war and they lose thousands of them die hundreds of nights Templar and Hospitaliers die.
01:17:54 --> 01:17:57 [SPEAKER_01]: 800 Christians are sold in the slavery.
01:17:57 --> 01:18:00 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the worst defeat of the Christians in 50 years.
01:18:01 --> 01:18:11 [SPEAKER_01]: It pretty much almost costs them all the crusader states right here in the year 1244, and it's very much leading up to the end of the crusader states, furthermore Damascus, which is
01:18:11 --> 01:18:18 [SPEAKER_01]: been this unstoppable fortress that has held the crusaders couldn't take it, but nobody else has been able to take it either.
01:18:18 --> 01:18:24 [SPEAKER_01]: The Sultan of Egypt for the first time, conqueres it, and finally, he's got control of everything now.
01:18:25 --> 01:18:30 [SPEAKER_01]: These mamalukes with these mercenary soldiers, nobody can really stop him.
01:18:30 --> 01:18:31 [SPEAKER_01]: He's now.
01:18:31 --> 01:18:36 [SPEAKER_01]: very much in charge, and he's setting his site on Jerusalem, and this is where the 7th crusade comes in.
01:18:37 --> 01:18:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Each crusade has a guy, richer the line heart Bernard of Clarevo, Frederick II, and the 7th crusade, King Louis 9th of France, is your guy.
01:18:45 --> 01:18:47 [SPEAKER_01]: And King Louis 9th is coming in to save the day.
01:18:47 --> 01:18:54 [SPEAKER_01]: The King got very sick when he was young man, and he found that if he was made better to God, he would rescue Jerusalem and the Christians.
01:18:54 --> 01:18:58 [SPEAKER_01]: While he was made King at the age of 12,
01:18:58 --> 01:19:01 [SPEAKER_01]: As 44 years in medieval years, he was king.
01:19:01 --> 01:19:02 [SPEAKER_01]: That's pretty good.
01:19:03 --> 01:19:07 [SPEAKER_01]: And actually he's the only king of France that has ever been called a saint by the Catholic Church.
01:19:07 --> 01:19:14 [SPEAKER_01]: He is also considered by many to be the height of French power, honor, Christian respectability, everything.
01:19:14 --> 01:19:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Good, in France, could maybe be attributed to this guy.
01:19:18 --> 01:19:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Many in France, in other way, I had a friend of mine who's from Europe, he got a good kick out of the first episode.
01:19:23 --> 01:19:28 [SPEAKER_01]: When I said France, and he said, and I think the quote was, I said, in France, actually used to be a really big deal.
01:19:29 --> 01:19:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And he was like, that's a really funny thing to hear in American say, because it's like, that is exactly how we approach history.
01:19:33 --> 01:19:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you didn't know this, but once upon a time, France was really important to the world.
01:19:38 --> 01:19:41 [SPEAKER_01]: No offense, I'm sorry, if you're a French listener, but it just, it does feel that way.
01:19:41 --> 01:19:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes when I read the history books, it's like, wow.
01:19:43 --> 01:19:46 [SPEAKER_01]: back in the 1200s these guys were really doing stuff.
01:19:46 --> 01:19:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Many in France thought it was a bad idea for King Louis the 9th to go over and do a crusade.
01:19:51 --> 01:19:56 [SPEAKER_01]: But you know you were sick, you don't owe God that 12 year old sick this thing.
01:19:56 --> 01:19:56 [SPEAKER_01]: But he does.
01:19:57 --> 01:20:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He vows it all over again, healthy to spitefully prove he meant it.
01:20:01 --> 01:20:12 [SPEAKER_01]: The 9th Templar of France are like, hey if you want to go, we'll help you out, we're you know, the 9th Templar of always had a close connection with France, and so they're very excited to send this guy on his way and give him all the money and supporting
01:20:12 --> 01:20:18 [SPEAKER_01]: And then anyways, the seventh crusade became the Knights Templar true, real, last attempt to take the Holy Land.
01:20:18 --> 01:20:21 [SPEAKER_01]: They put all their materials, all their forces, they organize.
01:20:22 --> 01:20:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's rallying.
01:20:23 --> 01:20:23 [SPEAKER_01]: This is it.
01:20:23 --> 01:20:24 [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to get Jerusalem back.
01:20:25 --> 01:20:27 [SPEAKER_01]: This is the moment everything's going to go well.
01:20:27 --> 01:20:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Almost immediately, this 1800 vessel army, this 1800 ships come in together, lands in the holy land, and they start a battle with some Muslims right off the bat.
01:20:37 --> 01:20:53 [SPEAKER_01]: These guys are better than the ones that have come before, they outman over the Muslims, and when they go to take a city, the Muslims have run to Heiden, they actually find that like it's almost like cartoonishly, all the Muslims soldiers had run out the back door, and so there was nobody actually in the city, and they had left a while back because that's how good they were.
01:20:53 --> 01:20:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, they were holding a city important to Egypt called Damiana.
01:20:57 --> 01:21:03 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Sultan of Egypt offered, it said, I will give you Jerusalem if you give me this Egyptian city over here.
01:21:03 --> 01:21:06 [SPEAKER_01]: He's in this message to them through the night's Templar, though.
01:21:06 --> 01:21:07 [SPEAKER_01]: And King Louis didn't like that.
01:21:07 --> 01:21:11 [SPEAKER_01]: He took a fence and that he goes, hey, Korean master, nice Templar guys.
01:21:11 --> 01:21:15 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who you guys think you are, but I'm the King of France, and you bring messages directly to me.
01:21:15 --> 01:21:16 [SPEAKER_01]: And he goes, you know what?
01:21:16 --> 01:21:17 [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna take Cairo.
01:21:17 --> 01:21:19 [SPEAKER_01]: We don't, we don't, nobody tells us what to do.
01:21:19 --> 01:21:20 [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna take Cairo.
01:21:20 --> 01:21:21 [SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna take Egypt.
01:21:22 --> 01:21:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And for once again, for like the 55th time.
01:21:25 --> 01:21:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And these Crusades, when you're supposed to be taking Jerusalem, you keep getting sidetracked by Egypt.
01:21:32 --> 01:21:33 [SPEAKER_01]: This put the nice sunflower in a weird situation.
01:21:34 --> 01:21:35 [SPEAKER_01]: King Louis is not their boss to Pope was.
01:21:35 --> 01:21:40 [SPEAKER_01]: They're supposed to be taking Jerusalem, but the king is the guy with the army here.
01:21:41 --> 01:21:49 [SPEAKER_01]: King Louis is the best chance to reclaim Jerusalem in a long time, and furthermore, the nice Timpler lands are deeply embedded in France.
01:21:50 --> 01:21:53 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's not really a good idea to be on his bad side.
01:21:53 --> 01:22:02 [SPEAKER_01]: This is foreshadowing, by the way, not being on the france kings, bad side is really important, a lesson they need to remember.
01:22:03 --> 01:22:22 [SPEAKER_01]: It happened, however, the army began to move forward, and the Turks realized that they weren't going to be attacked in Jerusalem, so they were like, cool, they sent spies, and they actually started attacking this Mama Luke Turk group, started attacking the army moving to Egypt from behind, and they were getting all over them at one point, like the nice timber we're being disciplined,
01:22:22 --> 01:22:24 [SPEAKER_01]: and not attacking, trying to follow the King's orders.
01:22:25 --> 01:22:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And they literally watch as the Turks beat up a guy, right in front of them, and finally, one nice, 10-bar guy just sells.
01:22:31 --> 01:22:32 [SPEAKER_01]: For God's sake, go ahead and kill them.
01:22:32 --> 01:22:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't take it anymore.
01:22:34 --> 01:22:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, they're mosquitoes, bugging, buzzing around.
01:22:36 --> 01:22:41 [SPEAKER_01]: They turn around and kill the bunch of the Turks and send them back in because they, uh, but still, it's pretty weird.
01:22:42 --> 01:22:43 [SPEAKER_01]: But this, the King didn't like that.
01:22:43 --> 01:22:45 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, hey, don't disregard my orders.
01:22:45 --> 01:22:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you not to focus on the Turks.
01:22:46 --> 01:22:47 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you we're going to Egypt.
01:22:47 --> 01:22:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, what they were attacking us, what are we supposed to do?
01:22:51 --> 01:22:53 [SPEAKER_01]: The next day they would disregard orders again.
01:22:53 --> 01:22:58 [SPEAKER_01]: They were supposed to go down a valley secretly and kind of create a beach head in Egypt.
01:22:58 --> 01:23:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Bedouins were like, hey, I know a secret way in Egypt.
01:23:01 --> 01:23:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They show them the secret way in Egypt.
01:23:02 --> 01:23:04 [SPEAKER_01]: This looks good from here.
01:23:04 --> 01:23:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They can launch a further attack.
01:23:05 --> 01:23:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, when the Knights Templar get there, they have a couple of fresh, sorry, French princes and soldiers with them.
01:23:11 --> 01:23:13 [SPEAKER_01]: And the French prince and soldier sees the city.
01:23:13 --> 01:23:14 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes, we can totally take it.
01:23:15 --> 01:23:16 [SPEAKER_01]: This will make us heroes.
01:23:16 --> 01:23:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Knights Templar said, no, I don't do this.
01:23:19 --> 01:23:22 [SPEAKER_01]: we were told to get a beach head and that's our orders, that's follow orders.
01:23:23 --> 01:23:27 [SPEAKER_01]: The French princes mocked them, they're like, you guys are cowards.
01:23:27 --> 01:23:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Some even say that like, hey, you're such cowards.
01:23:29 --> 01:23:34 [SPEAKER_01]: If you guys were brave, maybe you would have held the promised land, but because your cowards you didn't.
01:23:34 --> 01:23:40 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if you've been paying attention to the night's sympa or the soul story, but they do not take well to being called cowards.
01:23:40 --> 01:23:41 [SPEAKER_01]: That's not their jam.
01:23:41 --> 01:23:44 [SPEAKER_01]: So they go fine, we'll go with you into the city.
01:23:45 --> 01:23:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And this next scene literally sounds like it belongs in a movie.
01:23:48 --> 01:23:50 [SPEAKER_01]: They go into the city.
01:23:50 --> 01:23:51 [SPEAKER_01]: There's almost no one around.
01:23:51 --> 01:23:53 [SPEAKER_01]: There are hardly any guards.
01:23:53 --> 01:23:54 [SPEAKER_01]: They're just walking through the city.
01:23:55 --> 01:23:56 [SPEAKER_01]: And the city is empty.
01:23:57 --> 01:24:00 [SPEAKER_01]: And you know, they keep getting deeper and deeper in.
01:24:00 --> 01:24:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And something just feels off and the guys that go in, they just kind of, it's, if in the movie, this is the part where someone says, I'm getting a really bad feeling about this, and as a turn to leave, they get attacked from the roofs of these people rocks.
01:24:15 --> 01:24:20 [SPEAKER_01]: swords, fire, boiling water, logs on fire, start falling on them.
01:24:20 --> 01:24:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They start riding out on their horses trying to get out of the city, but people are now leaning out their windows with swords and knives stabbing their horses, stabbing the soldiers, killing them as they try to rush out.
01:24:31 --> 01:24:37 [SPEAKER_01]: The prince who had pushed them into this dies, the counten all his noble men that were with him die.
01:24:37 --> 01:24:44 [SPEAKER_01]: Almost every night's Templar that entered that city died, only the grandmaster and a handful of them escape.
01:24:44 --> 01:24:46 [SPEAKER_01]: and the grandmaster was deeply injured.
01:24:46 --> 01:24:50 [SPEAKER_01]: He lost one of his eyes and this escape it went terribly.
01:24:50 --> 01:24:54 [SPEAKER_01]: And when the French army shows up to get to that beach head, it's a complete mess.
01:24:54 --> 01:25:03 [SPEAKER_01]: They're mad at the night's Templar because you were told to follow orders and yet again you didn't follow orders and they see the French princes body being hung from the wall.
01:25:03 --> 01:25:09 [SPEAKER_01]: it was a brutal attack and the Egyptians were just totally just ransacking them and went terrible.
01:25:10 --> 01:25:14 [SPEAKER_01]: The next day the grandmaster will lose sight and his other eye and another battle it would be killed.
01:25:15 --> 01:25:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Supply boats were supposed to be coming to them, bringing them fresh supplies and they were trying to send the wounded out.
01:25:21 --> 01:25:25 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Egyptians had had some boats upstream that were just sinking everything.
01:25:25 --> 01:25:26 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't going very well.
01:25:26 --> 01:25:33 [SPEAKER_01]: So soon this army in the middle of Egypt was starving, they eventually got scurvy, which tells you how bad things are out there.
01:25:34 --> 01:25:37 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't do well, and the French army is captured.
01:25:38 --> 01:25:42 [SPEAKER_01]: The Sultan of Egypt comes up to the army and he says, like a large amount of money to save you.
01:25:43 --> 01:25:49 [SPEAKER_01]: And the French king says, I want every single man, even the poor.
01:25:49 --> 01:25:50 [SPEAKER_01]: to be bought out.
01:25:50 --> 01:25:51 [SPEAKER_01]: This is unheard of.
01:25:52 --> 01:25:54 [SPEAKER_01]: The king never buy a support.
01:25:54 --> 01:25:58 [SPEAKER_01]: The poor get turned into slaves in the band and the rich and the nobles get away.
01:25:59 --> 01:26:02 [SPEAKER_01]: But this king, King Louis, says no, I will buy every single one of them.
01:26:03 --> 01:26:04 [SPEAKER_01]: But it's so nice like that's going to be a lot of money.
01:26:05 --> 01:26:09 [SPEAKER_01]: This is like the biggest deal in history pretty much and you know what he buys the poor man.
01:26:09 --> 01:26:11 [SPEAKER_01]: He says, why should I get out when they're here?
01:26:11 --> 01:26:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to get them all out.
01:26:13 --> 01:26:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He makes a deal and like literally the history books make it sound like as he's shaking hands over the deal.
01:26:22 --> 01:26:26 [SPEAKER_01]: The Sultan is assassinated on the spot.
01:26:26 --> 01:26:30 [SPEAKER_01]: by the Mama Luke Turks, that the Sultan had once hired to defend him.
01:26:30 --> 01:26:41 [SPEAKER_01]: The Mama Luke's instantly take over, a coup d'etat happens, like on their feet, the French are still captured, they don't know what's going on, and the Mama Luke's come rolling up, they're like, hey, we just kind of took over Egypt, you saw we killed the Sultan.
01:26:42 --> 01:26:46 [SPEAKER_01]: We're in charge now, but we're going to go easy on you, we want to let you go.
01:26:46 --> 01:27:10 [SPEAKER_01]: But we're going to let you, but we're going to give you a cheaper price, but because we're kind of in a bind right now what with the whole taking over Egypt right now thing we could use a lot of money right now, so we're going to let you pay less overall, but we want you to pay more right now the king of France is like I don't have more right now I can get you more later.
01:27:10 --> 01:27:13 [SPEAKER_01]: And they go, well, we're not going to let you go if you don't give us the money we need right now.
01:27:13 --> 01:27:17 [SPEAKER_01]: We need this money to kind of pay off the right people so this coup de tago is okay.
01:27:18 --> 01:27:22 [SPEAKER_01]: And, well, the Knights Templar, of course, they have a treasure ship offshore.
01:27:23 --> 01:27:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And what a statement, right?
01:27:24 --> 01:27:29 [SPEAKER_01]: They have a ship that just roams around with powerful treasure when they need it.
01:27:29 --> 01:27:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Some historians kind of make a sound like, well, just, you know, resources you need on a ship nearby.
01:27:34 --> 01:27:36 [SPEAKER_01]: But it just is mysterious element of like, oh, you need money.
01:27:36 --> 01:27:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we could go get the treasure ship out for you.
01:27:39 --> 01:27:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And think about it like, during this time, there are pirates, Egyptians are sinking ships with wounded people on it.
01:27:45 --> 01:27:48 [SPEAKER_01]: But sound while that Knights Templar got their treasure ship
01:27:48 --> 01:27:49 [SPEAKER_01]: full of treasured money.
01:27:50 --> 01:27:59 [SPEAKER_01]: The one thing everyone would have wanted to get their hands on and then I'd simpler I like we could give you the money you need of course, but we won't.
01:27:59 --> 01:28:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And the king of Louis is like you need to give us that money and they're like you're very close to having all the money you need But you need more and we can't give it to you and one of King Louis men pulls an axe out walks over the nice Templar and says We'll just cut you all down right now and the nice Templar go okay now we can give you the money and they're like what and they're like according to the rules We can only give you the money when you're so serious that you're willing to kill us and that proved you're worse So we will give you the money now
01:28:25 --> 01:28:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't tell if they just realized they were going to get killed and they're like, wait a second, maybe we can.
01:28:29 --> 01:28:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Or if their rules really were that convoluted that you could only loan the money.
01:28:33 --> 01:28:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, if you're trying to have a reputation that you're not greedy, this is not helping your reputation that you're not greedy.
01:28:39 --> 01:28:40 [SPEAKER_01]: They give them the money.
01:28:40 --> 01:28:42 [SPEAKER_01]: They buy their way out.
01:28:42 --> 01:28:45 [SPEAKER_01]: But King Louis, you get along with the Knights Templar for a time.
01:28:46 --> 01:28:51 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the guy who pulled the axe out eventually becomes the new Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
01:28:51 --> 01:28:55 [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't think he quite forgot the whole time he was held hostage and they didn't help him out.
01:28:55 --> 01:29:09 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, one point later on, later in his life, King Louis will make every night's Tim Blar present, step in front of him barefoot and bow down for an apology about something, and then he will banish one of them because he didn't like the treaty he gave them.
01:29:09 --> 01:29:16 [SPEAKER_01]: and the historians will say this was a really humiliating moment when the when the Knights Templar to bow before the King.
01:29:16 --> 01:29:25 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean they're supposed to only serve the Pope, but from that point on it's pretty clear they're second in charge now and the King of France has special power over them.
01:29:25 --> 01:29:30 [SPEAKER_01]: However the King of France is also getting special power over the Roman court and the Pope as well so that's just kind of a thing.
01:29:31 --> 01:29:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway King Louis the Knight King of the St. Nizonde definitely I mean you can see that he won the care for the poor
01:29:39 --> 01:29:45 [SPEAKER_01]: But also, the nice temp are not bossing the kings of Europe around the Holy Land anymore.
01:29:46 --> 01:29:48 [SPEAKER_01]: They're now bowing to them and doing what they say.
01:29:48 --> 01:29:56 [SPEAKER_01]: King Louis had attempt another attempt to redake the Jerusalem in the eighth crusade, but he will die of disinteriy in that attempt, which is no fun for him.
01:29:57 --> 01:29:59 [SPEAKER_01]: We're seeing the end of Jerusalem.
01:29:59 --> 01:30:01 [SPEAKER_01]: We're seeing kind of the closing of all of this.
01:30:01 --> 01:30:09 [SPEAKER_01]: This Egyptian slave soldier army that kills the Sultan, they become the reigning dynasty over Egypt for the next 300 years.
01:30:09 --> 01:30:16 [SPEAKER_01]: They get into a war with the invading Mongols, the Mongols, the Mongolians who kill everybody.
01:30:16 --> 01:30:23 [SPEAKER_01]: From China, all the way down to the Cambodian Khamai kingdom, which does defend itself against them, but to be fair, they lived in small areas.
01:30:23 --> 01:30:28 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, these guys who tried to conquer the world who destroyed the Hungarians, crushed the Russians.
01:30:28 --> 01:30:35 [SPEAKER_01]: These guys were an unstoppable force, crushed everybody, but these, but they did not defeat the Mamulux.
01:30:35 --> 01:30:43 [SPEAKER_01]: The guys running Egypt were able to hold their own against them and beat them back and were able to hand a hold their lands against the Mongolians.
01:30:44 --> 01:30:47 [SPEAKER_01]: When no one else could, they were also brutal and mean and tough.
01:30:47 --> 01:30:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And they're the ones that will hold down the Middle East.
01:30:50 --> 01:30:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And eventually, they pushed the Mongolians out.
01:30:52 --> 01:30:57 [SPEAKER_01]: The Mongolians attempted to work with the crusaders, but nobody could ever get on the same page of window attack and want to do.
01:30:57 --> 01:31:09 [SPEAKER_01]: And eventually, the Mongolians kicked the crusaders out, leaving, or sorry, the Mongolians out, leaving only one enemy left in the Middle East, a small group called the crusaders, and what was left at the Byzantine Empire.
01:31:09 --> 01:31:17 [SPEAKER_01]: and they began launching their wars against the Christians, making them take them for money, taking destroying them, selling them into slavery.
01:31:17 --> 01:31:26 [SPEAKER_01]: From 265 to 1271, one at a time, city of the city, country after country went down and was either barely defended or completely taken over.
01:31:27 --> 01:31:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Antioch, the original city, outside of NYC, that the crusaders took, they're big,
01:31:32 --> 01:31:38 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, their big prize from the first Crusade out of Jerusalem is taken for the first time.
01:31:38 --> 01:31:56 [SPEAKER_01]: S.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.E.
01:31:56 --> 01:32:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of just like the lights going out slowly, one by one, the party, you know, the people are leaving the party and soon the parties almost over and everyone's pretty much gone home and you're on your own.
01:32:09 --> 01:32:23 [SPEAKER_01]: On the other side of it, the crusader states are also so buried and their local politics and their personality battles that somehow as this giant unstoppable force of the Mamalute Turks is wiping everyone out.
01:32:23 --> 01:32:26 [SPEAKER_01]: the Crusader states don't even seem to notice or care.
01:32:26 --> 01:32:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They are so in just in biddered and entangled and their own little wars.
01:32:31 --> 01:32:35 [SPEAKER_01]: During the middle of all of this, the Crusader states go to war with each other.
01:32:36 --> 01:32:39 [SPEAKER_01]: The Venetians go to war with Tyre and Acre.
01:32:39 --> 01:32:44 [SPEAKER_01]: They have not even paying attention to what's actually important at all during any of this.
01:32:45 --> 01:32:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't even know really how to describe it.
01:32:48 --> 01:32:51 [SPEAKER_01]: It would be as if
01:32:51 --> 01:32:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I would be as if Darth Vader and his stormtroopers got in a battle while Luke is standing there.
01:32:56 --> 01:32:59 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a terrible analogy, but I just don't know what, what do you what do you do?
01:32:59 --> 01:33:07 [SPEAKER_01]: This is an overwhelming loss and somehow nobody's focused on what's important in the Crusader states at all.
01:33:07 --> 01:33:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually the Venetians are kicked out of Tyre, the land they had taken on.
01:33:11 --> 01:33:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually Acre is down to pretty much all they have left.
01:33:14 --> 01:33:19 [SPEAKER_01]: The Pope tried to help different sides, but he can never get people to focus anymore.
01:33:19 --> 01:33:26 [SPEAKER_01]: and you can't help them out when or how much of this holy war could have been one if the Christians had united against the Muslims like the Muslims were now united against them.
01:33:27 --> 01:33:44 [SPEAKER_01]: From the very beginning it was both what made the Crusades truly unique that all these Europeans came together and united to do something and it's also what makes the Crusades kind of not work is because all these people don't actually get along and when the once the main glory days were over it just was a bunch of selfish battling that
01:33:44 --> 01:34:14 [SPEAKER_01]: really the same stuff that was going on in Egypt now just happening or sorry in Europe now just happening in the Middle East the same people fighting over there are now fighting over here and it's kind of interesting too because these you know mom looked Turks probably originally descended from like the Russia area so in a sense or like in the Greek areas too so in a sense like you have this group that took over Egypt that was originally from Europe is now defeating this group of Europeans that was originally from Europe running the Middle East very odd times
01:34:14 --> 01:34:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And whenever the Egyptian army, the monologues took over, they didn't offer terms of surrender, they just came in and, or they would, they would say, well, surrender, be nice, well, be nice to you.
01:34:25 --> 01:34:25 [SPEAKER_01]: They never did them.
01:34:26 --> 01:34:29 [SPEAKER_01]: They killed all the males and saved all the females every single time.
01:34:29 --> 01:34:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And you would think that alone would make you afraid and listen to them, like, hey, let's work together because those guys are really bad, but they don't.
01:34:37 --> 01:34:44 [SPEAKER_01]: The Mongols return and try to help the crusader states one more time, and the Mongols and crusader states work together, but they just fail.
01:34:44 --> 01:34:46 [SPEAKER_01]: One city had a super terrible end.
01:34:47 --> 01:34:57 [SPEAKER_01]: The Grand Master of the Knights Templar heard the Muslims were coming for Tripoli, an old crusader strongholdy sent a message to them and said, hey, the Mongols are on the way, get ready.
01:34:58 --> 01:34:59 [SPEAKER_01]: But the city didn't believe him.
01:34:59 --> 01:35:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, these mob looks aren't coming.
01:35:00 --> 01:35:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They're staying in each of two cares.
01:35:02 --> 01:35:04 [SPEAKER_01]: And they got completely wiped out.
01:35:04 --> 01:35:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't pay attention.
01:35:05 --> 01:35:07 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't even try.
01:35:07 --> 01:35:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, another time we see the Mama Luke's come over and destroy some other cities, but the nice Templar.
01:35:12 --> 01:35:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you can tell that's disrespect.
01:35:15 --> 01:35:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Like these guys used to be considered some heroes of the Middle East, and now nobody's even listening to the Grandmaster when he's telling you the Mama Luke's are knocking at your door.
01:35:24 --> 01:35:29 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's just mind blowing to me that you could have a group of people who will kill all the men and slave all the females.
01:35:29 --> 01:35:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And I would think just even the rumor that they were coming would get everyone to get ready to fight or something.
01:35:35 --> 01:35:37 [SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing.
01:35:38 --> 01:35:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Acre was the last one the last part of the crusader states the king of England had recently come by and like bought good fortifications given all the soldiers new weapons tried to help them out They got in the small skirmishes here and there with Muslims and Egyptian armies, but it was clear the big army was on the way
01:35:54 --> 01:35:59 [SPEAKER_01]: But then they also heard rumor, maybe the big army will go to Africa and go south and maybe not come their way.
01:35:59 --> 01:36:03 [SPEAKER_01]: But the grandmaster, sentiment and warning, hey, we heard, we can see them coming.
01:36:04 --> 01:36:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They're on their way to acre.
01:36:06 --> 01:36:07 [SPEAKER_01]: This was the last.
01:36:07 --> 01:36:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this, all three of the military orders, the Titanic Knights, what was here, the hospitality areas, the Knights Templar, everyone's here now in acre.
01:36:16 --> 01:36:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a big trading board.
01:36:17 --> 01:36:18 [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of money comes through here.
01:36:19 --> 01:36:23 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, because it's all that's left, this is where the big trading happens in the Middle East.
01:36:24 --> 01:36:31 [SPEAKER_01]: The mom and lugs come up with 60 horsemen, 120 soldiers and siege weapons, catapults, all of that.
01:36:32 --> 01:36:35 [SPEAKER_01]: People are paying to get out thousands of civilians or paying big money.
01:36:35 --> 01:36:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Anybody will take them, give me out of here, we're going to die for sure.
01:36:38 --> 01:36:44 [SPEAKER_01]: What was left behind was a 13 man army, and that is not enough, and this isn't cavalry.
01:36:44 --> 01:36:49 [SPEAKER_01]: This was men, and they have a thousand-nights hospitality, and a thousand-nights Timbler.
01:36:49 --> 01:37:12 [SPEAKER_01]: and this is they're not going to give it up they say this is our last stand this is the last piece of Jerusalem and there's really something kind of heroic in my mind about this moment I mean that night before the battle I would love to hear the night's hospitality years and the night's you know Templar sitting by the wall talking to each other these two organizations had fought wars over who would defend Jerusalem
01:37:12 --> 01:37:31 [SPEAKER_01]: for 70 years or so, they had fought back and forward, they had fought together against Muslims and they had fought each other to see who it, and after 150 years of all this fighting and bloodshed and craziness, here they were side by side making a heroic and suicidal last stand put together.
01:37:32 --> 01:37:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Mama Luke's did what they learned from Saladin.
01:37:34 --> 01:37:38 [SPEAKER_01]: They put mines under the walls and began blowing things up until the walls fell.
01:37:38 --> 01:37:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Once the walls fell, it was chaos.
01:37:40 --> 01:37:41 [SPEAKER_01]: The city begins to fall.
01:37:42 --> 01:37:46 [SPEAKER_01]: The leader of the nice hospitality years wounded, but he fights to the death until he's able to get on a ship and get away.
01:37:47 --> 01:37:50 [SPEAKER_01]: The leader of Jerusalem, the guy ran the city, he gets away.
01:37:50 --> 01:37:57 [SPEAKER_01]: But so many people climb on board his ship and he doesn't want anyone not to get on board that the ship gets too heavy and sinks into the sea.
01:37:57 --> 01:38:00 [SPEAKER_01]: the English king would brought the crusaders.
01:38:00 --> 01:38:01 [SPEAKER_01]: He's out.
01:38:01 --> 01:38:01 [SPEAKER_01]: He retreats.
01:38:01 --> 01:38:03 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, ah, it's unwindable battle.
01:38:03 --> 01:38:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm out of here.
01:38:04 --> 01:38:07 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templars grandmaster has seen leaving.
01:38:07 --> 01:38:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And people go, you can't leave.
01:38:08 --> 01:38:09 [SPEAKER_01]: We need you.
01:38:09 --> 01:38:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I'm dying.
01:38:10 --> 01:38:11 [SPEAKER_01]: They killed me.
01:38:11 --> 01:38:12 [SPEAKER_01]: And they lay him down.
01:38:13 --> 01:38:16 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Knights Templar kind of like, battle fortress.
01:38:16 --> 01:38:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And he literally does die.
01:38:17 --> 01:38:20 [SPEAKER_01]: And he've seen movies like where they'll be battles or something happening.
01:38:20 --> 01:38:22 [SPEAKER_01]: These old medieval movies we talked about earlier.
01:38:22 --> 01:38:26 [SPEAKER_01]: And like in the middle of it, they like lay a hero down and like goodbye to this old king or something.
01:38:26 --> 01:38:28 [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of what the Grand Master does.
01:38:28 --> 01:38:29 [SPEAKER_01]: So he gets wounded in this battle.
01:38:29 --> 01:38:31 [SPEAKER_01]: His nice Templar, some of them take him back.
01:38:31 --> 01:38:33 [SPEAKER_01]: They like save final rights, they pray him away.
01:38:34 --> 01:38:38 [SPEAKER_01]: And on the side, there's a giant battle happening, but they're saying goodbye to this guy, because we just died at battle.
01:38:39 --> 01:38:40 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just a mess.
01:38:40 --> 01:38:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Thousands gather inside the fortress.
01:38:42 --> 01:38:46 [SPEAKER_01]: The final building to not fall is the night's Templar fortress.
01:38:46 --> 01:38:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember they were going to building forts.
01:38:48 --> 01:38:49 [SPEAKER_01]: They had a lot of money.
01:38:49 --> 01:38:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And for five days outside, the city is burning.
01:38:52 --> 01:38:53 [SPEAKER_01]: The city's being looted, slaughtering.
01:38:54 --> 01:38:55 [SPEAKER_01]: All the terrible things are happening.
01:38:55 --> 01:39:12 [SPEAKER_01]: And just I can't even imagine want to be like to be inside that fork during this five days, the level of fear inside their negotiating piece can at least the women and children is civilians exit the night's timber they they know they're going to die and they don't want to they don't want to negotiate peace anyway.
01:39:12 --> 01:39:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, uh, there's a hundred soldiers of the Sultan come in and they'll say, well, we're moved the women and children.
01:39:17 --> 01:39:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing will happen.
01:39:19 --> 01:39:20 [SPEAKER_01]: But as they do it, they do it very roughly.
01:39:20 --> 01:39:23 [SPEAKER_01]: They start attacking the women and children inside the fort.
01:39:23 --> 01:39:24 [SPEAKER_01]: So the nice temple are killed them.
01:39:25 --> 01:39:28 [SPEAKER_01]: And they realize when they kill these guys, well, that's the end of negotiations.
01:39:28 --> 01:39:31 [SPEAKER_01]: They take down, they've been told, um, fly the Sultan's banner.
01:39:32 --> 01:39:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, when this happens, they took down the Sultan's banner, put their own flag back up, they're like, we know we're doomed.
01:39:36 --> 01:39:37 [SPEAKER_01]: This is over.
01:39:37 --> 01:39:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The Sultan tries to trick them in the being friendly again, sends a guy out and they kind of do a little negotiation and then Sultan gets mad and just be heads a nice Timpler guy It's over.
01:39:45 --> 01:40:05 [SPEAKER_01]: This is going to go down now during this time the nice Timpler did have like access to the sea So they've been sending boats of people out into the sea with civilians and with relics They've been trying to send like their best treasures in the Middle East out But it's not enough time to get the hundreds and a thousands of people that have gathered out, but they are trying
01:40:04 --> 01:40:32 [SPEAKER_01]: At this point, the Egyptians are done, they break through, and after five days, they all invade this fortress all at once, and the legend goes that the fortress became so heavy with so many people, and so weakened by all the bombs, that something almost biblical seems to happen, like the fortress starts to fall down and crushes everybody inside,
01:40:32 --> 01:40:34 [SPEAKER_01]: all of the Mamaloo Turks.
01:40:34 --> 01:40:50 [SPEAKER_01]: So instead of these people mean enslaved, instead of them getting tortured, the Turks die a bunch of the Turks die in this invasion and all the nice Templar that are left and in the civilians too, they all die all at once together in the crushed inside this castle.
01:40:50 --> 01:40:58 [SPEAKER_01]: What are remaining of nice Templar fortresses in the land are allowed to evacuate including that really beautiful one Frederick II really wanted.
01:40:58 --> 01:41:01 [SPEAKER_01]: The Mama looks now controlled the Crusader states.
01:41:01 --> 01:41:04 [SPEAKER_01]: The Europeans just don't have it in then the China, the Crusade.
01:41:05 --> 01:41:07 [SPEAKER_01]: They're so sick of these wars over there.
01:41:07 --> 01:41:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's over.
01:41:08 --> 01:41:10 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar, what do you do?
01:41:11 --> 01:41:18 [SPEAKER_01]: When your entire mission was you were created to create a safe pilgrimage to Jerusalem, what do you do when there's no Jerusalem?
01:41:18 --> 01:41:20 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you do when there's no pilgrimage?
01:41:20 --> 01:41:22 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you do when there's no Middle East?
01:41:22 --> 01:41:23 [SPEAKER_01]: It's over.
01:41:23 --> 01:41:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Knights Templar very much adrift.
01:41:25 --> 01:41:28 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you exist for if not that?
01:41:28 --> 01:41:30 [SPEAKER_01]: they regroup in Cyprus.
01:41:30 --> 01:41:35 [SPEAKER_01]: They kind of try to figure out, well, you know, they didn't run Cyprus well in the past, but they're doing much better now.
01:41:36 --> 01:41:43 [SPEAKER_01]: And they do make some attempts to kind of skirmish and see if they can kind of break back into the Middle East here and there and some of their strongholds.
01:41:43 --> 01:41:48 [SPEAKER_01]: They also held some castles way out in our menu, so they tried to do some stuff, but all of this fails.
01:41:49 --> 01:41:57 [SPEAKER_01]: By the year 1301, they are completely removed from the promised land.
01:41:57 --> 01:42:02 [SPEAKER_01]: And the situation of the nice Timblar as the intro of the 14th century is very strange.
01:42:03 --> 01:42:06 [SPEAKER_01]: They're one of the most powerful organizations financially.
01:42:06 --> 01:42:07 [SPEAKER_01]: That's ever existed in world history.
01:42:08 --> 01:42:12 [SPEAKER_01]: The Pope is still given them free reign to continue doing whatever they want.
01:42:12 --> 01:42:14 [SPEAKER_01]: They still want to pay taxes.
01:42:14 --> 01:42:15 [SPEAKER_01]: They still are free to operate.
01:42:16 --> 01:42:21 [SPEAKER_01]: They have built a state within a state inside of
01:42:21 --> 01:42:25 [SPEAKER_01]: But, um, I don't know what you want to do.
01:42:25 --> 01:42:26 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you do with this?
01:42:26 --> 01:42:32 [SPEAKER_01]: I think about how power, how much money, how much information travels through them, these people who have headquarters is all over the place.
01:42:33 --> 01:42:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're basically like a CIA or a pentagon level power force, right in the middle of France, and they no longer have a purpose.
01:42:40 --> 01:42:42 [SPEAKER_01]: They're no longer in the middle east.
01:42:42 --> 01:42:43 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you do?
01:42:43 --> 01:42:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Would you let them sit there quietly running the show
01:42:51 --> 01:42:56 [SPEAKER_01]: The game of France feels very uncomfortable with them, and the Pope doesn't really know what to do with them.
01:42:57 --> 01:43:01 [SPEAKER_01]: In Cyprus they dethroned a king and put someone they liked better in.
01:43:02 --> 01:43:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And as much as that kind of helped the group get comfortable in Cyprus, this made everyone else everywhere else kind of uncomfortable.
01:43:09 --> 01:43:14 [SPEAKER_01]: So you're now no longer in the Middle East, but you're now deposing kings that you don't like.
01:43:15 --> 01:43:21 [SPEAKER_01]: How much would you want a group like that sitting right in your border loyal to who knows who doing who knows what?
01:43:21 --> 01:43:27 [SPEAKER_01]: I mentioned a long time ago earlier in this episode that the jutonite nights are a big part of the undoing here, and let me just tell you what happened to them.
01:43:28 --> 01:43:32 [SPEAKER_01]: The Germans were originally Christian, but there was another group nearby called the Prussians.
01:43:32 --> 01:43:45 [SPEAKER_01]: They were not Christians yet, and so the Pope operated crusades and the Titanic Knights for the group that went in and crusaded against the pressions, and they forced them to become Christians only over time.
01:43:45 --> 01:44:01 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems harsh, but the pressions were not exactly nice to the Titanic Knights either, one chronicle wrote that the Undaptized Pressions would quote, roast the captured Titanic Knights alive in their armor like chestnuts in a fire over the shrines of their local gods.
01:44:02 --> 01:44:07 [SPEAKER_01]: So, that's pretty bad, it means pretty much as bad as warfare gets when you're roasting people over fires.
01:44:08 --> 01:44:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Over time, though, despite the pressions fighting strong, it just made more sense to become Christian and open the doors for trade, privilege, friendship, it helped your country out.
01:44:17 --> 01:44:22 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, over time, the pression, nobility became Christian as the nobility becomes Christian, everyone else does too.
01:44:23 --> 01:44:26 [SPEAKER_01]: And eventually, these people become most of the Christians.
01:44:27 --> 01:44:35 [SPEAKER_01]: I like to think that some of them came to Christ legitimately that it wasn't maybe missionary efforts, but I don't know what the missionary efforts and the pressure are, and we're not going into that.
01:44:35 --> 01:44:36 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot of work.
01:44:36 --> 01:44:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I did look at the Wendish people nearby, but that we didn't have a son of a robot thought about that.
01:44:40 --> 01:44:44 [SPEAKER_01]: You can go look that up on Jan Killians episode where I learned all about the web in this shwarya.
01:44:45 --> 01:44:45 [SPEAKER_01]: And that was nearby.
01:44:46 --> 01:44:50 [SPEAKER_01]: A part of the same crusade, crusade, into Northern Europe, because crusade's went up that way too.
01:44:51 --> 01:45:04 [SPEAKER_01]: After decades of fighting and crusading and baptizing the Prussian's became a stable Christian land, and many didn't really know who ran the land, well, the crusaders, the Totonic Knights took it over, so they were the ones in charge of it.
01:45:04 --> 01:45:09 [SPEAKER_01]: They did all the baptizing and cleansing in the land, so they were the ones who were given the land.
01:45:10 --> 01:45:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And the hospitalityers had Malta, the Knights Timblar had Cyprus, and the Totonic Knights had pressure.
01:45:15 --> 01:45:17 [SPEAKER_01]: But this didn't make anyone in Europe comfortable.
01:45:17 --> 01:45:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, sure.
01:45:18 --> 01:45:21 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar have a random island in the Mediterranean, okay.
01:45:22 --> 01:45:25 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Tutanites have a real country in the minds of Europeans.
01:45:25 --> 01:45:30 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a land that could roll over and invade your land with horses any day.
01:45:31 --> 01:45:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And they had captured it solely created themselves a kingdom inside of the countries of Europe.
01:45:36 --> 01:45:38 [SPEAKER_01]: This made the countries of Europe nervous.
01:45:38 --> 01:45:44 [SPEAKER_01]: These large military orders were created to attack and protect the Holy Land and Jerusalem.
01:45:44 --> 01:45:47 [SPEAKER_01]: But they're not
01:45:47 --> 01:45:50 [SPEAKER_01]: building kingdoms in Europe that could invade you someday.
01:45:51 --> 01:45:55 [SPEAKER_01]: The Tutonic Knights will rule pressure for 240 years.
01:45:55 --> 01:46:00 [SPEAKER_01]: They encourage Germans and other localities to join pressure, especially as they did that back death.
01:46:00 --> 01:46:01 [SPEAKER_01]: They were like, come join us in pressure.
01:46:02 --> 01:46:03 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't always good.
01:46:03 --> 01:46:11 [SPEAKER_01]: The, at one point, the nobles of pressure and the 1400s will ask Poland to annex them and give them altitude to order.
01:46:11 --> 01:46:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And this will lead to a 13-year war which pressure loses badly.
01:46:15 --> 01:46:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, they eventually forced the grandmaster of the tutonic nights to swear to the loyal to the king.
01:46:21 --> 01:46:25 [SPEAKER_01]: He lives out his life kind of as a prince of pressure, kingdom of Poland runs things.
01:46:26 --> 01:46:27 [SPEAKER_01]: It gets a little wild over there.
01:46:27 --> 01:46:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, they become like a German warrior monk group.
01:46:30 --> 01:46:31 [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's weird.
01:46:31 --> 01:46:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And they will exist for a long time.
01:46:33 --> 01:46:35 [SPEAKER_01]: They will exist well.
01:46:35 --> 01:46:37 [SPEAKER_01]: into the 1800s.
01:46:37 --> 01:46:40 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the German peasant revolts will deal with them.
01:46:40 --> 01:46:49 [SPEAKER_01]: But Napoleon will take over the last little pieces of the tutonic night plant lands when he takes over Prussian redistributes it.
01:46:49 --> 01:46:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And just by the way, we already mentioned that Napoleon is the one who takes over the last of the night's hospitality airlines and Malta.
01:46:56 --> 01:46:59 [SPEAKER_01]: So Napoleon is actually Napoleon.
01:46:59 --> 01:47:08 [SPEAKER_01]: is responsible for ending two of the medieval military orders that started over in Jerusalem.
01:47:08 --> 01:47:15 [SPEAKER_01]: The German Totonic one when he takes over Prussia and the Ninth Hospitalier one over in Malta.
01:47:15 --> 01:47:16 [SPEAKER_01]: That's wild.
01:47:16 --> 01:47:17 [SPEAKER_01]: That's just weird to me.
01:47:17 --> 01:47:22 [SPEAKER_01]: Think of starting a group now and having two in Joel, if you started a group, I started a group.
01:47:22 --> 01:47:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody else started a group.
01:47:24 --> 01:47:26 [SPEAKER_01]: We were all going to run little military orders.
01:47:26 --> 01:47:31 [SPEAKER_01]: 800 years passes and the same dictator guy destroys two of those three groups.
01:47:32 --> 01:47:38 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy to me and by the way, this is wild to think about just like how you're changed so dramatically.
01:47:38 --> 01:47:49 [SPEAKER_00]: It relatively recent like yeah, it seemed pretty consistent through a good chunk of like a thousand years and then like from 1800 to you know like 1915
01:47:49 --> 01:48:04 [SPEAKER_01]: radically radically overall I mean think about it your great great great great great great great grandpa which is sure pretty way far away back could have known to tonic nights people the same people that like you know richer the lion heart new that's
01:48:04 --> 01:48:12 [SPEAKER_01]: wild to think about, like, how long of a period that was going on, and they weren't that strong when Napoleon defeated them, but I mean, they were still there.
01:48:13 --> 01:48:16 [SPEAKER_01]: They were still still the same people around.
01:48:16 --> 01:48:17 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just absolutely wild.
01:48:18 --> 01:48:19 [SPEAKER_01]: But that was a big press.
01:48:19 --> 01:48:30 [SPEAKER_01]: The Nazis, they became a charity organization like the Knights of Spitalia, and the Nazis outlawed them for a time, but otherwise, they pretty much been running around, and they're still kind of out there doing something charitable in the Catholic world.
01:48:30 --> 01:48:32 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what they really get up to.
01:48:32 --> 01:48:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Back to France, you see the two tonnets, you see them do all of that running pressure.
01:48:37 --> 01:48:41 [SPEAKER_01]: You see them deposing that these nightly orders deposing people in Cyprus.
01:48:42 --> 01:48:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And if the tonnets are over there in Germany and Russia, well, it's very clear that the night's Templar are over in France.
01:48:50 --> 01:48:53 [SPEAKER_01]: You're the king of France, you're nervous, and you don't know what they're doing.
01:48:53 --> 01:48:55 [SPEAKER_01]: They're moving back to France.
01:48:55 --> 01:48:56 [SPEAKER_01]: The Pope lives in France, by the way.
01:48:56 --> 01:48:59 [SPEAKER_01]: Now you remember the Pope excommunicated Frederick II.
01:49:00 --> 01:49:02 [SPEAKER_01]: That was kind of like his move to put himself in power.
01:49:03 --> 01:49:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, those days are over.
01:49:04 --> 01:49:05 [SPEAKER_01]: The kings are now in power.
01:49:06 --> 01:49:10 [SPEAKER_01]: They moved the Pope out of Rome into France so they could keep him close.
01:49:10 --> 01:49:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And the king of the France, at the time, Philip IV, was a power hungry dude.
01:49:15 --> 01:49:18 [SPEAKER_01]: He, many thought he was trying to build like a royal theocracy around himself.
01:49:19 --> 01:49:27 [SPEAKER_01]: If you heard of King Louis, the absolute monarchy that he was, that made everything about himself, will fill the fourth was that guy, 400 years before him.
01:49:27 --> 01:49:37 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, he didn't like the previous Pope, so he slandered him, put out a bunch of allegations that he was sinful to interrible evil things, and then he had him tried and court and killed him and got rid of him.
01:49:38 --> 01:49:41 [SPEAKER_01]: And now the new Pope is sitting in France right next door in the King's
01:49:41 --> 01:49:43 [SPEAKER_01]: kind of like, hey, I'd like you to serve me.
01:49:43 --> 01:49:45 [SPEAKER_01]: You saw it happen in the last guy.
01:49:45 --> 01:49:46 [SPEAKER_01]: I think we want to have any problems, right?
01:49:47 --> 01:49:51 [SPEAKER_01]: And then when he asked some issues with Jewish people in his land, so he puts out a bunch of rumors.
01:49:51 --> 01:49:51 [SPEAKER_01]: They're cannibals.
01:49:51 --> 01:49:54 [SPEAKER_01]: They're all these terrible things.
01:49:54 --> 01:49:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Almost sexual is incestuous.
01:49:55 --> 01:49:58 [SPEAKER_01]: All these black lists and seas is everything from them.
01:49:59 --> 01:50:00 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a strategy here.
01:50:00 --> 01:50:03 [SPEAKER_01]: If I say bad things about you, buy the court's laws, they'll give me your lands.
01:50:04 --> 01:50:08 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, in 1306 and 1307, King Philip asked a nice Templar for more money.
01:50:09 --> 01:50:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, he'd already asked him for money multiple times.
01:50:12 --> 01:50:19 [SPEAKER_01]: And the nice Templar said, no, look, King Philip, you didn't pay us back the last time we gave you a loan rock and it gave you a new loan until you pay us back.
01:50:20 --> 01:50:22 [SPEAKER_01]: and the king fill up goes, okay, okay, no problem.
01:50:22 --> 01:50:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Because you know what, I'm having a big ceremony, which by the way, if you have no money, you should buy no, you have big ceremonies.
01:50:27 --> 01:50:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Because I have a big ceremony, I want all of you guys to come, bring all the leaders from Cyprus.
01:50:31 --> 01:50:33 [SPEAKER_01]: This is gonna be a big show, it's gonna be amazing.
01:50:34 --> 01:50:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's have some unity, bring the grandmaster, it'll be great.
01:50:37 --> 01:50:40 [SPEAKER_01]: He's got a good relationship with the Knights Templar for a long time.
01:50:41 --> 01:50:46 [SPEAKER_01]: When the king's brothers wife died, the grandmaster was one of the Paul Bears.
01:50:46 --> 01:50:50 [SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, he has a good relationship with them.
01:50:50 --> 01:50:52 [SPEAKER_01]: So they show up and everything's fine.
01:50:52 --> 01:50:54 [SPEAKER_01]: They have a ceremony, things are great.
01:50:55 --> 01:50:58 [SPEAKER_01]: But the next day, the French army's burst into all the nice Templar bases.
01:50:59 --> 01:51:01 [SPEAKER_01]: They arrest every single nice Templar.
01:51:01 --> 01:51:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They put them in a dungeons.
01:51:02 --> 01:51:11 [SPEAKER_01]: All of a sudden, all in one, all the nice Templar and France are being accused and convicted as cannibals, as cremators of people, which was against some rules.
01:51:11 --> 01:51:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And then they said they would eat the cremated ashes, as killing infants and secret sacrifices to demons.
01:51:17 --> 01:51:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just crazy.
01:51:19 --> 01:51:21 [SPEAKER_01]: crazy stuff.
01:51:21 --> 01:51:23 [SPEAKER_01]: No historian really believes any of it's true.
01:51:24 --> 01:51:33 [SPEAKER_01]: The shady operation side of the nice Templar that people think happened, it's just, there's nothing there, that's not to say they were perfect, they were really rich organization doing stuff.
01:51:33 --> 01:51:50 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure sometimes it was not about board, but I mean, there's no evidence any of this crazy stuff was happening, King Philip himself didn't even believe it, up until five minutes ago, these guys were friends and advisors, and he was inviting them to meet, and it
01:51:51 --> 01:51:56 [SPEAKER_01]: They tortured the Knights Templar until they confessed their sins, and they would torture them terribly.
01:51:56 --> 01:51:59 [SPEAKER_01]: They would burn the souls of their feet, crippling them for life.
01:51:59 --> 01:52:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They would rip the teeth out of their head so they would be again crippled for life.
01:52:03 --> 01:52:07 [SPEAKER_01]: They would hold them upside down tied by their wrists behind their backs, mutilating their bodies.
01:52:07 --> 01:52:19 [SPEAKER_01]: They would torture them and cramp them in the dungeons with no air, no ventilation, no soap, no food, sometimes until they confessed, and they would say, all those evil things
01:52:19 --> 01:52:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, many times when the Knights Timbler will let out a jail later on, they would retract their confessions.
01:52:23 --> 01:52:25 [SPEAKER_01]: But if they did that, they would go burn them at the stake of heretics.
01:52:26 --> 01:52:29 [SPEAKER_01]: The few who didn't confess died in the tortures.
01:52:29 --> 01:52:34 [SPEAKER_01]: The ones that survived, they were evil heretics that lived in exile and misery.
01:52:34 --> 01:52:38 [SPEAKER_01]: And in all at once, the Knights Timbler lost Jerusalem.
01:52:39 --> 01:52:42 [SPEAKER_01]: They were powerful, but they're just...
01:52:42 --> 01:52:45 [SPEAKER_01]: overnight, overwhelmingly wiped out.
01:52:46 --> 01:52:52 [SPEAKER_01]: The night Simlar had all their eggs and one basket in a sense, their main powerhouse was France.
01:52:52 --> 01:53:04 [SPEAKER_01]: All the way back in the beginning, it was a French guy and a French king in Bernard of Clareville, all these people in France supporting them, so when the king of France overturns him, it would the width the help of the pope.
01:53:04 --> 01:53:05 [SPEAKER_01]: It absolutely demolishes him.
01:53:06 --> 01:53:08 [SPEAKER_01]: Now the rest of the Christian kingdoms are shot.
01:53:08 --> 01:53:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Nice Timpler everywhere.
01:53:09 --> 01:53:11 [SPEAKER_01]: The nice Timpler technically answered to the Pope.
01:53:11 --> 01:53:14 [SPEAKER_01]: So he had to be supporting this but he's living the France.
01:53:14 --> 01:53:18 [SPEAKER_01]: And many of the kings kind of around England, other places they know what's going on.
01:53:18 --> 01:53:20 [SPEAKER_01]: They know this isn't legit, they know this is not cool.
01:53:20 --> 01:53:23 [SPEAKER_01]: They say the Pope is saying nothing out of fear.
01:53:24 --> 01:53:26 [SPEAKER_01]: The King of England, he actually goes out of his way to protect them.
01:53:26 --> 01:53:29 [SPEAKER_01]: He gives them extra the nice Templar extra time to hide.
01:53:30 --> 01:53:32 [SPEAKER_01]: He sticks his neck out for them.
01:53:32 --> 01:53:33 [SPEAKER_01]: He won't torture them.
01:53:33 --> 01:53:35 [SPEAKER_01]: He says English people don't torture or we're not going to do that.
01:53:36 --> 01:53:38 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes out of his way to do everything he can to protect them.
01:53:38 --> 01:53:42 [SPEAKER_01]: But eventually English Templar nights gotta go down too.
01:53:42 --> 01:53:47 [SPEAKER_01]: It's very obvious that the Pope is being led along by the by the King of France.
01:53:47 --> 01:53:51 [SPEAKER_01]: And 1312 the order is officially a band in Cyprus Falls.
01:53:51 --> 01:53:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Everything goes down.
01:53:52 --> 01:53:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, 30.
01:54:00 --> 01:54:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, that's killing me.
01:54:02 --> 01:54:03 [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
01:54:03 --> 01:54:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And 1314 the last Grand Master is burned alive at the state for being a heretic after retracting his confession.
01:54:10 --> 01:54:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, by the way, we know that this was all fake in 2007, which is not that long ago, Joel.
01:54:17 --> 01:54:21 [SPEAKER_01]: The Catholic Church officially apologized and said they got it wrong.
01:54:22 --> 01:54:33 [SPEAKER_01]: In 2001, they discovered a document showing the Pope had actually secretly absolved the Knights Templar, and remember, 3 to 5 of them were arrested in France, however, out of fear of King Philip,
01:54:33 --> 01:54:44 [SPEAKER_01]: He had to throw out the absolution and re-arrest them, and it all that stuff about the the Knights Templar being Satanic worshippers was made up, and he admitted it basically.
01:54:45 --> 01:54:54 [SPEAKER_01]: But that document that was in the Catholic Church didn't get released to 2001, and the Catholic Church didn't basically say we're sorry about this until 2007.
01:54:54 --> 01:54:59 [SPEAKER_01]: 693 years late, so I don't think any of the nice Timplar that we're alive at the time got to hear about it.
01:55:00 --> 01:55:02 [SPEAKER_01]: But we have the advantage of history now.
01:55:02 --> 01:55:04 [SPEAKER_01]: We know that this was fake nonsense.
01:55:05 --> 01:55:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Up until 2001 and 2007 historians were still doing the whole like, well maybe there's some truth to this kind of thing.
01:55:12 --> 01:55:14 [SPEAKER_01]: But we know now for sure there really wasn't.
01:55:14 --> 01:55:35 [SPEAKER_01]: when they escape the kingdom makes you wonder what what other documents the Vatican has yeah it doesn't make you wonder it makes you wonder what other records over there it seems like it makes you wonder what other things are waiting a good solid 700 years before they apologize for right now when they're escaping the kingdom of Jerusalem one of the minute the Battle of Acre was a man named Roger de Floor
01:55:35 --> 01:55:37 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just going to tell you this story as fast as I can at its wild.
01:55:37 --> 01:55:41 [SPEAKER_01]: This dude was born with Falconer, Dad trained Falcons at the age of eight.
01:55:41 --> 01:55:44 [SPEAKER_01]: His father died in battle, put his son on a ship, run by the Knights Templar.
01:55:45 --> 01:55:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He grew up at sea, joined the Knights Templar order, but he didn't join them as a soldier out in the deserts.
01:55:49 --> 01:55:56 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a ship captain for the L Falco, which meant Falcon, pretty cool name for a ship, named after his dad's dog.
01:55:56 --> 01:55:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, there was no other ship like it.
01:55:58 --> 01:56:00 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a pirate ship like crazy.
01:56:00 --> 01:56:10 [SPEAKER_01]: The Muslims for hundreds of years have been by and they still I mean up until very recently, and maybe even still do they would pirate attack Christian cities steal their treasures steal their people Boba-baw.
01:56:10 --> 01:56:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they all Falco and some of the Knights Templar basically reversed it.
01:56:13 --> 01:56:18 [SPEAKER_01]: They had their own ships attacking the Muslims They would go pillage North Africa in the Middle East.
01:56:18 --> 01:56:20 [SPEAKER_01]: They would bring their treasures back to them
01:56:20 --> 01:56:22 [SPEAKER_01]: and nobody did it better than the althalco.
01:56:22 --> 01:56:24 [SPEAKER_01]: This ship was just leagues ahead of all the others.
01:56:25 --> 01:56:28 [SPEAKER_01]: They were fast, they were strong, they were absolutely the best ship.
01:56:28 --> 01:56:32 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, when the Knights Templar, if you remember, they were trying to escape acre.
01:56:33 --> 01:56:36 [SPEAKER_01]: It was the althalco as one of the most trusted ships getting them in and out of there.
01:56:36 --> 01:56:39 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's weird to think of Christians as pirates.
01:56:39 --> 01:56:44 [SPEAKER_01]: But if the Muslims are doing it to you, the Knights Templar were like, turn abouts fair play, we'll do it back at you then.
01:56:44 --> 01:56:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And so this althalco ship is just sailing all over, stealing people back and forth.
01:56:48 --> 01:56:48 [SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy.
01:56:48 --> 01:56:51 [SPEAKER_01]: and very wealthy, very powerful ship.
01:56:51 --> 01:56:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, after the nice Timpler falls, the Pope accused his Roger of not paying enough of his fair share from all this reading.
01:56:58 --> 01:57:01 [SPEAKER_01]: He was paying tons of money to the church, but they thought he was trying to cheat them.
01:57:01 --> 01:57:12 [SPEAKER_01]: He gets mad, he gets excommunicated, and so this Roger Guy buys a new ship, he gets frustrated and ends up in Sicily working for a guy there for a while, goes to worrisome people of
01:57:12 --> 01:57:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually he takes an army and makes his way over to the Byzantine Empire.
01:57:15 --> 01:57:22 [SPEAKER_01]: And when he is to the Byzantine Empire he attacks and destroys a bunch of Turkish settlements and this is called the Catalan Company.
01:57:23 --> 01:57:33 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Catalan Company is a special group of people, 6 men and several ships that the Emperor loved so much he had this guy married his niece and brought him into the family.
01:57:33 --> 01:57:38 [SPEAKER_01]: They were 7 people and they were merciless across Turkey, Armenia, and Iran.
01:57:38 --> 01:57:39 [SPEAKER_01]: And the reason why.
01:57:39 --> 01:57:50 [SPEAKER_01]: This former Knights Templar pirate was so devastating, it's because when this 7 cattle on company army swept into the Middle East, they weren't Knights Templar.
01:57:50 --> 01:57:52 [SPEAKER_01]: They weren't Christian and kind and gentle.
01:57:52 --> 01:57:56 [SPEAKER_01]: They were mercenaries and they were merciless on the Muslims and they killed so many of them.
01:57:57 --> 01:57:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Now before that sounds like, oh, that sounds very mean.
01:57:59 --> 01:58:03 [SPEAKER_01]: If you were Christians in some of these cities that have been siege by the Turks for years, you were so happy.
01:58:04 --> 01:58:08 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar were
01:58:09 --> 01:58:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, just like the nice Templar though, this guy Roger gets in trouble with the Emperor because people in there are like maybe he's too powerful.
01:58:16 --> 01:58:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he's trying to go to the crown, what's he doing?
01:58:18 --> 01:58:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Is he giving it a funny back?
01:58:19 --> 01:58:21 [SPEAKER_01]: He gets called back to Constantinople.
01:58:22 --> 01:58:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, you know what?
01:58:22 --> 01:58:24 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually thinking of quitting this whole business.
01:58:24 --> 01:58:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway,
01:58:26 --> 01:58:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, Buddy gets, you know, they actually crown him Caesar, which is interesting to me that they even had that position, and they're like, we love you, your Caesar.
01:58:34 --> 01:58:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, and then like the next day of royal family member assassinate some.
01:58:38 --> 01:58:43 [SPEAKER_01]: The Catalan company that he founded, these 7 men get mad, so they pillaged the Byzantine Empire.
01:58:44 --> 01:58:56 [SPEAKER_01]: We're just destroying everything across Macedonia, eventually they settle into Athens, and this is such a bloody vengeance crusade by these guys, it's called the Catalan vengeance.
01:58:56 --> 01:59:09 [SPEAKER_01]: The cattle on company did more damage to them than they did to the Turks, and they were actually in a worse spot for having betrayed Roger de Floor than they were originally if they had just left him alone or never worked with him in the first place.
01:59:09 --> 01:59:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is just this wild story of one night's Templar guy becoming a pirate, then becoming a soldier, then reclaiming holy lands up north at least in Turkey's area, and then when he gets assassinated by the Byzantines, his army going and taking over a bunch of places
01:59:25 --> 01:59:28 [SPEAKER_01]: And then eventually, they run Athens for like 70 years.
01:59:28 --> 01:59:30 [SPEAKER_01]: This group of people, the Catalong company.
01:59:30 --> 01:59:34 [SPEAKER_01]: Just weird how history works and how these people have these stories.
01:59:35 --> 01:59:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Why I like the story?
01:59:36 --> 01:59:37 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just completely random.
01:59:37 --> 01:59:38 [SPEAKER_01]: It tells you how crazy things are.
01:59:39 --> 01:59:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I love stories like that.
01:59:40 --> 01:59:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Like I remember in the of the typing rebellion, had that guy who like left the typing rebellion went to Vietnam and eventually he was fighting against Japanese people alongside the imperial army.
01:59:50 --> 01:59:59 [SPEAKER_01]: But it also liked the story because Roger de Floor is maybe where we get the idea of the Jolly Roger from, because he was thought to have flown a flag that would have been the skull and crossbones.
01:59:59 --> 02:00:09 [SPEAKER_01]: It was one of the symbols of the Knights Templar, and so when his ship showed up a nice Templar ship, he very well might have been flying the Jolly Roger that we currently associate.
02:00:09 --> 02:00:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, the where the Jolly Roger comes from is a mystery.
02:00:12 --> 02:00:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Many people think it does come from the Knights Templar because they put it on a bunch of their tombstones.
02:00:15 --> 02:00:17 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, I even found a picture.
02:00:17 --> 02:00:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Of an old Scottish Knights Templar with the Skolen Crossbones, they loved the imagery of death.
02:00:23 --> 02:00:27 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, the Skolen Crossbones goes all the way back to like Christian martyrs in the Roman Empire.
02:00:27 --> 02:00:33 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's an old symbol, but this idea of it being used by boats and pirates may have come from the Knights Templar.
02:00:33 --> 02:00:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Now it's not the only one, the French Clayton, they had a word for the English claim.
02:00:37 --> 02:00:39 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a slang for it, so it might have come from somewhere else.
02:00:39 --> 02:00:44 [SPEAKER_01]: But this is at least one very viable location that it came from.
02:00:44 --> 02:00:52 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not only the nice tempar responsible for all this, but they also might have been responsible for pioneering piracy among Christians and the Charlie Rodger as well.
02:00:53 --> 02:00:55 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just another one, there are many symbols.
02:00:57 --> 02:00:59 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just another weird legacy of our days.
02:00:59 --> 02:01:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Also just a cool story, I mean even the El Falco itself, I wish I could have seen that ship, I bet it was awesome.
02:01:05 --> 02:01:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, at the time time, we've been telling the story.
02:01:07 --> 02:01:09 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you we've been leaving out a big punk chunk of the story.
02:01:09 --> 02:01:11 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is what's happening over in Spain.
02:01:11 --> 02:01:18 [SPEAKER_01]: The nice Templar, having this huge battle over in Spain, the nice Templar alongside the hospitality areas and others, there was this King, he loved them.
02:01:19 --> 02:01:24 [SPEAKER_01]: When he learned about them and they came over to help, his name is King Alfonso, the battleer, great nickname.
02:01:24 --> 02:01:26 [SPEAKER_01]: He established a bunch of military orders.
02:01:26 --> 02:01:28 [SPEAKER_01]: He thought military orders were the coolest.
02:01:28 --> 02:01:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And he was like one of the original recon keys to guys, pushing out the Muslims out of Spain and Portugal.
02:01:35 --> 02:01:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Not only did they build really unstoppable castles, beautiful castles, Google them, nice, Templar castles and Spain, very pretty, but they also, they were really good at colonizing them, like once these Muslim lands were claimed, there should be a bunch of Muslims there, but the nice Templar were essential at bringing these lands back to Christianity, baptizing people, teaching them Christianity, and bringing them along in.
02:01:56 --> 02:02:01 [SPEAKER_01]: So what happens then when the Pope says, oh no, we're getting rid of the nice Templar, they're evil and no good.
02:02:01 --> 02:02:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Well the Portuguese and Spanish don't want to get rid of the Knights Templar.
02:02:04 --> 02:02:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They love the Knights Templar.
02:02:05 --> 02:02:06 [SPEAKER_01]: They think they're great.
02:02:06 --> 02:02:07 [SPEAKER_01]: How do they deal with this?
02:02:07 --> 02:02:09 [SPEAKER_01]: They disband the Knights Templar.
02:02:10 --> 02:02:14 [SPEAKER_01]: But at the same time, they create a new order, the order of Montesa.
02:02:14 --> 02:02:15 [SPEAKER_01]: And Portuguese do the same thing.
02:02:15 --> 02:02:18 [SPEAKER_01]: They get rid of the Knights Templar, but they create a new order called the Order of Christ.
02:02:18 --> 02:02:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And they give all the lands over from the Knights Templar to these two new orders and allow them to keep their lands.
02:02:24 --> 02:02:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And the Knights Hospitaliers were trying to get those lands and they got nope.
02:02:27 --> 02:02:33 [SPEAKER_01]: The Knights Templar gone but unrelated, there's a new order called the Order of Christ or the Order of Montessa and all their lands belong to them.
02:02:33 --> 02:02:34 [SPEAKER_01]: They just moved them over.
02:02:34 --> 02:02:36 [SPEAKER_01]: They just replaced them.
02:02:36 --> 02:02:40 [SPEAKER_01]: These new orders continue to fight the Muslims in Spain in Portugal for centuries to come.
02:02:40 --> 02:02:45 [SPEAKER_01]: One important member of this group is a man named Grandmaster Henry, the Navigator.
02:02:46 --> 02:02:56 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right, Henry, the Navigator, the guy who kicks off expeditions to Africa, who leaves the age of discovery was a Grandmaster in one of these orders that was a direct descendant from the Knights Templar.
02:02:56 --> 02:03:01 [SPEAKER_01]: the Portuguese begin to explore the world because of this order of Christ there.
02:03:01 --> 02:03:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They train these discovers.
02:03:03 --> 02:03:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They begin to go and start trading by sailing to India.
02:03:06 --> 02:03:15 [SPEAKER_01]: They start taking places like Macau and then one really important person who is trained as a student in their school Christopher Columbus.
02:03:16 --> 02:03:19 [SPEAKER_01]: That's right, the Knights Templar rebranded into one of these orders.
02:03:20 --> 02:03:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Lead to...
02:03:22 --> 02:03:26 [SPEAKER_01]: the training of Christopher Columbus, who sailed the ocean blue.
02:03:27 --> 02:03:31 [SPEAKER_01]: And that is to say, I'm sure eventually somebody would found North America, South America.
02:03:31 --> 02:03:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it would have all still happened.
02:03:32 --> 02:03:41 [SPEAKER_01]: But the Knights Templar in a sense, played a direct descendant led to the founding of America, in a sense, that's crazy.
02:03:41 --> 02:03:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, none of just that.
02:03:41 --> 02:03:43 [SPEAKER_01]: Christopher Columbus went up to the Viking lands.
02:03:43 --> 02:03:50 [SPEAKER_01]: He probably heard about America from up there, because we know he was in Iceland area at one point, but still, interesting connection.
02:03:50 --> 02:04:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Another group from this area, the Jesuits, the Society of Jesus, very famously, they were not a military organization per se, but they did take control of the Philippines and McCown, they tried to take control of Japan and Ethiopia, a bunch of things across the world, during kind of the Reformation era.
02:04:06 --> 02:04:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And in places like Nagasaki, they were controlled by the Jesuits, very hardcore.
02:04:10 --> 02:04:39 [SPEAKER_01]: They were organized by a former soldier, Ignatius Loyola, and he promoted education book publishing, so not directly soldiers like the Knights Templar, but they called themselves Father General, they called themselves God's Marines, they were led like religious stormtroopers, some of called them, they would fight in the 30 years war militantly, and they were more salvation army than real army, but they're still connection between the two, and Ignatius Loyola came up with the idea
02:04:39 --> 02:04:44 [SPEAKER_01]: of an order like this, and that was right where the order of Montessa and the order of Christ would have been.
02:04:44 --> 02:04:53 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's hard not to see a connection between the, you know, just where the Knights Templar happened to be, the Jesuits and order of military likeness goes around the way.
02:04:53 --> 02:04:59 [SPEAKER_01]: It's hard not to see a connection between these two ideas that the Knights Templar definitely would have had some effect on.
02:04:59 --> 02:05:09 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's a big stuff, like that's just the stuff that we all live with today that the nice temple are literally had a hand in the age of discovery, literally had a hand in banking and all these other things we talked about.
02:05:09 --> 02:05:10 [SPEAKER_01]: But what about the weird stuff?
02:05:11 --> 02:05:12 [SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of wrap it up here, all right?
02:05:12 --> 02:05:26 [SPEAKER_01]: The stuff you want to know, what about the, what about all the, in this group that held, that was held together by O's and Shivalry and Secrets, they own land from London to Paris, you fraties to the Nile, inspired legends all around the world about them.
02:05:26 --> 02:05:29 [SPEAKER_01]: What about all that money?
02:05:29 --> 02:05:33 [SPEAKER_01]: to add a vote fuel to all these rumors that there was something shady about the night's Templar.
02:05:33 --> 02:05:44 [SPEAKER_01]: One thing that happened was pretty crazy is as the last grandmaster died as he was brought to the state he said hey you kill me and I'm putting a curse on you.
02:05:44 --> 02:05:46 [SPEAKER_01]: This will be your death to the Pope into the King.
02:05:46 --> 02:05:49 [SPEAKER_01]: He's like, this is going to fall on you for doing this.
02:05:49 --> 02:05:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, guess what, within a year, the Pope died and within a year, this King died as well and his dynasty began to fall apart.
02:05:59 --> 02:06:10 [SPEAKER_01]: In 14 years, France, and England will go to 100 years war, fighting over who will be the new person that takes over, France will basically fall apart for 100 years and won't be saved to Joan of Arc shows up, which we've done a deep dive on.
02:06:10 --> 02:06:12 [SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to go back to Joan of Arc on yet, but we've done it before.
02:06:12 --> 02:06:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Another bad element for the Knights Templar is that actually they fell apart on the 13th of October and 1307 that is Friday the 13th and 1307 As when the orders went out to arrest them many believe this is the origins of 13 being unlucky and the Friday the 13th being unlucky
02:06:29 --> 02:06:43 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the greatest mysteries of the nice tempar and also involves their treasure, that's due to the rumor that the treasure has gone missing, that they had a huge treasure, and it's true, when the king's men broke into the treasureies of the nice tempar, they found a single golden chest where there should have been very, very many.
02:06:44 --> 02:06:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Where did all their money go?
02:06:45 --> 02:06:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, part of it was their money was in land.
02:06:47 --> 02:06:49 [SPEAKER_01]: They had a lot of money, but it was in land.
02:06:50 --> 02:06:53 [SPEAKER_01]: And so, seizing the land kind of got you the money, but no treasure.
02:06:53 --> 02:06:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Still, though, treasure seemed to be missing.
02:06:55 --> 02:06:59 [SPEAKER_01]: At one point, they thought it was in a place called Gizor's France,
02:06:59 --> 02:07:05 [SPEAKER_01]: groundskeeper in 1920, thought he saw a giant chapel filled with treasure, but he had fired when he couldn't lead anybody to it.
02:07:05 --> 02:07:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And the French culture minister actually had a research in 1960s.
02:07:08 --> 02:07:12 [SPEAKER_01]: So we're talking people is still looking for this treasure even up until the 1960s.
02:07:12 --> 02:07:14 [SPEAKER_01]: And in fact, there are treasure hunters out there to this day.
02:07:14 --> 02:07:18 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, some people believe that the nice Templar took it back to a place.
02:07:19 --> 02:07:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Their treasure as they were leaving France, they knew they were in trouble.
02:07:22 --> 02:07:27 [SPEAKER_01]: They took it out of France's hands and they
02:07:27 --> 02:07:29 [SPEAKER_01]: That thought was Scotland.
02:07:29 --> 02:07:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Scotland was in Catholic territory.
02:07:32 --> 02:07:36 [SPEAKER_01]: The ninth Templar were present, but they weren't under the Pope's control necessarily.
02:07:37 --> 02:07:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, maybe it isn't Scotland.
02:07:38 --> 02:07:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody knows where it is after all.
02:07:40 --> 02:07:41 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it never existed.
02:07:41 --> 02:07:43 [SPEAKER_01]: But if it isn't Scotland, nobody knows.
02:07:43 --> 02:07:49 [SPEAKER_01]: There's even a rumor that from Scotland, they took it with the Vikings and went up north and eventually went out into America.
02:07:49 --> 02:07:52 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's any backing for that at all.
02:07:52 --> 02:08:01 [SPEAKER_01]: But history channel apparently has a whole TV show dedicated to someplace called Oak Island where a theory is that the nice Templar treasure may have made it out in some place in Canada.
02:08:01 --> 02:08:02 [SPEAKER_01]: This is pseudo history.
02:08:02 --> 02:08:04 [SPEAKER_01]: This is just goofy, just for fun.
02:08:04 --> 02:08:05 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think any of this stuff happened.
02:08:05 --> 02:08:10 [SPEAKER_01]: But we do know that there was some knowledge of America at this time because of Vikings wearing Greenland.
02:08:10 --> 02:08:15 [SPEAKER_01]: However, I don't think that the nice Templar took their treasure to America.
02:08:15 --> 02:08:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, the last piece, the piece that you've mentioned a thousand times, Joel, the Freemasons.
02:08:19 --> 02:08:31 [SPEAKER_01]: The Freemasons claim they have a heritage all the way back to Egypt, and they're kind of philosophy on life is that like the pyramids are built by builders, and they've had this weird thing about builders.
02:08:31 --> 02:08:37 [SPEAKER_01]: They built things in this world and they wish to build each other and taking them at face value, not adding their weird stuff.
02:08:37 --> 02:08:39 [SPEAKER_01]: They're a fraternal brotherhood of men who build each other up.
02:08:39 --> 02:08:41 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what they say.
02:08:41 --> 02:08:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And so much of what they do stems from Solomon's Temple, the idea that Solomon was an architect who built things and were supposed to be physically building and algo rising in our life and building.
02:08:51 --> 02:08:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, just as the process of building the temple, they must prepare stones, so you must prepare your life and the stones of your life and stuff like that.
02:08:58 --> 02:09:04 [SPEAKER_01]: And so there are fraternal brotherhood with some secret stuff that they do, they repeat some lines to remind themselves of history.
02:09:04 --> 02:09:07 [SPEAKER_01]: A basic level, the Freemasons say there's something like an adult.
02:09:07 --> 02:09:13 [SPEAKER_01]: club for men with some, you know, rituals and stuff thrown in about workers encouraging working.
02:09:13 --> 02:09:14 [SPEAKER_01]: They have club meetings.
02:09:15 --> 02:09:22 [SPEAKER_01]: They have dinners to socialize and then they manage to finances and they support charities and they end up new members with ceremonies and stuff.
02:09:22 --> 02:09:22 [SPEAKER_01]: It's fun.
02:09:22 --> 02:09:23 [SPEAKER_01]: It's fun.
02:09:23 --> 02:09:24 [SPEAKER_01]: You recite lines, blah, blah, blah.
02:09:25 --> 02:09:26 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what they say.
02:09:26 --> 02:09:32 [SPEAKER_01]: Most people do not think the free maids are quite so innocently and nice as they portray themselves to be these days.
02:09:32 --> 02:09:36 [SPEAKER_01]: However, one of the oldest documents about the Free Masons is a poem from 1425.
02:09:36 --> 02:09:38 [SPEAKER_01]: It could actually go all the way back to 1390.
02:09:39 --> 02:09:43 [SPEAKER_01]: However, that's still almost 100 years after the Knights Timbler had been disbanded.
02:09:43 --> 02:09:48 [SPEAKER_01]: But just because the Knights Timbler were disbanded, didn't mean the Knights Timbler died.
02:09:48 --> 02:09:58 [SPEAKER_01]: England kind of took a long time to persecute them, giving them plenty of time to hide, and it's not ever been, I'm not even sure of Scotland ever, even officially killed the Knights Timbler living there.
02:09:58 --> 02:10:09 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're looking at the Freemason timeline, officially the Freemasons are going into hiding around 1315 and this poem that the Freemasons is like one of their founding documents is 1390.
02:10:09 --> 02:10:13 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean there's that's a big lab that's 75 years between them.
02:10:13 --> 02:10:18 [SPEAKER_01]: So you'd be looking at the grandkids of them maybe and there's no connection here.
02:10:19 --> 02:10:21 [SPEAKER_01]: The Freemasons are a secret group and that's if you go to the 1390.
02:10:21 --> 02:10:24 [SPEAKER_01]: 1425 is one of the most historians.
02:10:24 --> 02:10:27 [SPEAKER_01]: So now we're a full over a century after they've been
02:10:27 --> 02:10:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Now that it gets to three months since our Seeker group it's really hard to pinpoint when they began.
02:10:31 --> 02:10:39 [SPEAKER_01]: For example, the first official lodge is supposedly 1717, however, it's very clear that they had a lodge in the 17th century.
02:10:39 --> 02:10:49 [SPEAKER_01]: And many claim the first actual lodge again is in Scotland around 1599, the lodge mother, Quilliment, Quill the Winning, which means lodge zero.
02:10:50 --> 02:10:57 [SPEAKER_01]: But the building actually was building, they repurposed, it goes all the way back to 1140s.
02:10:57 --> 02:11:01 [SPEAKER_01]: The Free Masons would purposely adopt many of the symbols and names of the night sympa.
02:11:01 --> 02:11:06 [SPEAKER_01]: They would include branches, and there's a group of nice timplars or free masons called today.
02:11:06 --> 02:11:08 [SPEAKER_01]: The night's Timplar order or the masons.
02:11:08 --> 02:11:12 [SPEAKER_01]: They use the orders and names like grandmasters, chivalry codes, and a lot of stuff.
02:11:13 --> 02:11:22 [SPEAKER_01]: But again, it's the Free Masons dressing up as night's Templar to give themselves history and secrecy, not any relation to the actual night's Templar.
02:11:22 --> 02:11:32 [SPEAKER_01]: The Freemason connection is stretched across the world, helped shroud in the legacy, you know, all these stories that they assassinate, you know, JFK with the CIA, did they do all these things?
02:11:33 --> 02:11:35 [SPEAKER_01]: No, the nice Templar were long gone by then.
02:11:35 --> 02:11:37 [SPEAKER_01]: All these shadowy things have nothing to do with them.
02:11:37 --> 02:11:43 [SPEAKER_01]: They just make great, but bestseller books to pseudo historians that want to get YouTube hits and things like that.
02:11:43 --> 02:11:45 [SPEAKER_01]: The real story is sadly pretty simple.
02:11:45 --> 02:11:56 [SPEAKER_01]: They were once a powerful organization, they protected pilgrims, they fought to protect Jerusalem, but as the Holy Land's fell, power hungry nobles, all battled out over who would run it and they fell apart.
02:11:56 --> 02:12:05 [SPEAKER_01]: They didn't help themselves by charging in every battle recklessly, they didn't help themselves by being so austere, and maybe sometimes members of their group were greedy.
02:12:06 --> 02:12:10 [SPEAKER_01]: At the very least, they had far more money than anybody ever really had before them.
02:12:10 --> 02:12:16 [SPEAKER_01]: Although offshoot to them has survived for a very long time, for the most part they've been demolished and didn't make it.
02:12:16 --> 02:12:21 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of them have survived and escaped their tortures, but they disappeared into the shadow of history.
02:12:21 --> 02:12:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Their legacy has been manipulated, their reputation tarnished by those who wanted to use them.
02:12:26 --> 02:12:33 [SPEAKER_01]: They were far from perfect, but you have to admit their readiness to sacrifice their lives for God was pretty commendable.
02:12:33 --> 02:12:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Very fascinating.
02:12:34 --> 02:12:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, I definitely could foresee a Nights Templar movie because we don't really have one, right?
02:12:39 --> 02:12:43 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, even though that's the point we don't actually we don't.
02:12:43 --> 02:12:58 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I was thinking through the Kingdom of heaven movie like there's nights in it, but I in this been it's been a hot second since since since I've seen it, but I don't recall Them uh, ever name dropping Nights Templars
02:12:58 --> 02:13:01 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we need a TV series.
02:13:01 --> 02:13:09 [SPEAKER_01]: We need like a series, night's Templar by one of these big companies, because for a start as we did a movie, most of you heroes would die in charge rate of 87.
02:13:09 --> 02:13:10 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
02:13:10 --> 02:13:11 [SPEAKER_01]: They wouldn't make it very long.
02:13:11 --> 02:13:16 [SPEAKER_01]: But I could see like an anthology or something following them for a while, kind of giving them a chance to breathe and stuff.
02:13:16 --> 02:13:19 [SPEAKER_01]: They have some very colorful characters throughout the story.
02:13:20 --> 02:13:31 [SPEAKER_00]: aren't even just a movie that includes a specific air, you know listeners right if you know of any uh uh uh you know media, TV shows or movies that depict nice Templars.
02:13:32 --> 02:13:42 [SPEAKER_01]: What does we love that that like specifically called we know the producer who's looking for a good script and we can help them out with that we got a nice we got a nice four and a half hours on the night's Templar we can wait through together.
02:13:42 --> 02:13:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Troy, I see, yeah, historical consultant on your resume.
02:13:47 --> 02:13:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Looking forward.
02:13:49 --> 02:13:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it.
02:13:50 --> 02:13:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's it.
02:13:51 --> 02:13:53 [SPEAKER_01]: We've officially covered another one.
02:13:53 --> 02:13:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember when we first did this one, it wasn't even like a big one on my radar.
02:13:56 --> 02:13:59 [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it just kind of fell into my lap, but I really enjoyed it.
02:14:00 --> 02:14:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Learn a lot.
02:14:01 --> 02:14:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I always feel like there should be some message at the end, like some lesson we take home, but it definitely don't have one.
02:14:06 --> 02:14:08 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't, I really never do.
02:14:08 --> 02:14:09 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, wow, that was crazy.
02:14:09 --> 02:14:11 [SPEAKER_01]: Can't believe all that happened.
02:14:11 --> 02:14:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, a bunch of history and for unlike the typing rebellion or something like the Ethiopian deep dive Like this is history that affected all of us.
02:14:19 --> 02:14:27 [SPEAKER_00]: We just didn't know it and I think that's like a good representation of just a lot of history in general Like everything has its time.
02:14:27 --> 02:14:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything has its era and then like it's not a good thing or a bad thing That's just the way time moves either there are moments people are gonna look back at the 21st century as things that came in wind
02:14:39 --> 02:15:02 [SPEAKER_01]: yeah and it's kind of crazy too because they'll get a better reputation because they went over killing people but they were killing people who were killing them and you know we all see soldiers that have fought in World War II killed a bunch of Nazis and we'll be like I want a great guy he did great things well how is that really that different than the Knights Templar defending pilgrims killing a bunch of better wind bandits you know is it I mean maybe you think it is but I mean how different is it I'm not sure
02:15:02 --> 02:15:03 [SPEAKER_01]: everyone's got a well-known tip.
02:15:03 --> 02:15:04 [SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's got opinions.
02:15:05 --> 02:15:05 [SPEAKER_01]: All right.
02:15:05 --> 02:15:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this is Troy Angel.
02:15:07 --> 02:15:10 [SPEAKER_01]: This has been a deep dive on the night's dim bar.
02:15:11 --> 02:15:12 [SPEAKER_01]: Guru Saiders are part two.
02:15:13 --> 02:15:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
02:15:14 --> 02:15:17 [SPEAKER_00]: And dear listener, what should we talk about next?
02:15:17 --> 02:15:23 [SPEAKER_00]: If there's extra thing in church history that you feel like or history in general that may be overlaps with
02:15:24 --> 02:15:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Or you know, you know, honestly just a historical event.
02:15:27 --> 02:15:29 [SPEAKER_00]: I bet you we can find a church history connection.
02:15:29 --> 02:15:37 [SPEAKER_00]: We did the great one to the fire and yeah, you know, turns out, jam packed with church history, even though it was the emergency, how connected.
02:15:37 --> 02:15:39 [SPEAKER_01]: How connected that was the church history.
02:15:39 --> 02:15:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Completely changed the world.
02:15:40 --> 02:15:44 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you've got some of the for us of your interested, you want some more research on it.
02:15:44 --> 02:15:48 [SPEAKER_01]: You guys have written suggestions and before we do appreciate it and we look into them.
02:15:48 --> 02:15:50 [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, we're interested in what you want to hear from.
02:15:51 --> 02:15:53 [SPEAKER_01]: This was a fun one that came to us.
02:15:53 --> 02:15:56 [SPEAKER_01]: just one of those subjects and I'm looking forward to the next one.
02:15:56 --> 02:15:57 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have one on the dock yet.
02:15:57 --> 02:16:01 [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to get this one done before I put the next one together, so it was a lot of fun.
02:16:02 --> 02:16:10 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Troy and Joel and this is Brevaya Thoughts.