The Knights Templar Chronology: Tracking History's Most Intriguing Monks

by George M. Smart

If you liked The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail, you"ll love digging deeper with The Knights Templar Chronology, a fascinating timeline telling the year by year story of one of history's most secret and mysterious brotherhoods -- in detail unmatched by any other reference volume. This remarkable book maps out at a glance the Templars" rise and fall from which so many modern-day groups draw inspiration. Never before have the world's most intriguing Knights had their incredible adventures and history so fully captured.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

132 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 2004

Reviews

[Billy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good history, good starting point for research...,

I have spent years studying the Knights Templar and have read countless books, both fact and fiction, about the group. This book is a good primer for anyone that is looking for a timeline of the Templars.
If you are a beginner looking for information on the Templars, this book will serve as a starting point which leads you to more in depth works depending on what sparks your interest, piques your curiosity.
Mr. Smart has produced a concise timeline of the years leading up to the creation of the Templars, the years of the Templars existence, and their ultimate fall at the hands of the French monarchy and the catholic church.

A good starting point for anyone interested in learning more about the mysterious order of warrior monks.

***One caveat, this timeline does make reference to information from "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" which, at the time of publication of this book was considered researched truth. The requisite release of "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown and the movie brought about a new study which proved a hoax involving the "Priory of Sion". The Priory of Sion did not exist as stated in "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". It was a well planned, well laid out hoax. All of this information came out after the publishing of "The Knights Templar Chronology" by George Smart. Although Mr. Smart cannot be blamed for sighting what was, at the time of publication, assumed to be fact, the fact that this is no longer valid information should be noted now.***

(+++ On a side note: I have recently had the pleasure of corresponding with Mr. Smart and have found that he is sincere in his studies and his dedication to the work he produced. He is a very gracious, kind gentleman. +++)

[Conrad Haas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it because my friend George wrote it and pretty much followed with he had originally written in a manuscript for my review.

That said, I particularly liked the narrative time line of the history