Caryn Bondi
March 18, 2015
RL 221-1 Research Paper Outline
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Knights Templar
I) Origin
A) Why did they start
B) Who were the founding members
C) What were the requirements to join
D) What rules needed to be followed
E) The First Crusade
1) How it led to the formation of the Knights Templar
F) The ranks within the group and requirements to achieve these ranks
II) Second Crusade
A) What started the Crusade
B) Who was involved
C) How do the Knights Templar fit in to the picture
D) What ended the Crusade
E) Was anything accomplished from the Crusade
F) Did it lead to other events
III) Third Crusade
A) What started the Crusade
B) Who was involved
C) How do the Knights Templar fit in to the picture
D) What ended the Crusade
E) Was anything accomplished from the Crusade
F) Did it lead to other events
IV) Fourth Crusade
A) What started the Crusade
B) Who was involved
C) How do the Knights Templar fit in to the picture
D) What ended the Crusade
E) Was anything accomplished from the Crusade
F) Did it lead to other events
V) End of the Knights Templar
A) What caused the group to end
B) Was their role given to another group
C) Has any group been founded based on the Knights Templar
VI) Conspiracies about the Knights Templar
A) Holy Grail
B) Hidden treasures
C) Still exist today
VII) Sources
A) Templars : History and Myth : From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael
Haag
1) Found on ebrary
B) Saints or Sinners? The Knights Templar in Medieval Europe by Helen Nicholson
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C) A Templar Chronicle of the Third Crusade: Origin and Transmission by James
Willoughby
D) The Central Convent of Hospitallers and Templars : History, Organization, and
Personnel (1099/1120-1310) by Jochen Burgtorf
E) The Order of Knights Templar suppressed. by Richard Cavendish
F) "Knights Templars, In Medieval History." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th
Edition (2013)
G) The History of The Knights Templars by Charles G. Addison
H) Secret Societies : Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge: Revelations About the Freemasons,
Templars, Illuminati, Nazis, and the Serpent Cults by Philip Gardiner