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TEMPLARS

The Templars were a military order founded in 1119 at the time of the Crusades by Hugues de Payen and Godfrey de Saint Adhemar, with seven other knights. They took vows of chastity, poverty and obedience and the undertaking to protect pilgrims to the holy places from attacks by the Saracens.
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