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the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple.

See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons. [U. S.]

rders. -- Grand master. (a) The head of one of the military orders of knighthood, as the Templars, Hospitallers, etc. (b) The head of the order of Freemasons or of Good Templars, etc. -- Grand paunch, a glutton or gourmand. [Obs.] Holland. -- Grand pensionary. See under Pensionary. -- Grand piano (Mus.), a large pi…

brother out, One of our order, to associate me. Shak. The venerable order of the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.

The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.

A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2.

ize by violence; seizing by force. " The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar." Motley.

ed by two inns of court in London, on the site of a monastic establishment of the Knights Templars, called the Temple.

rder of knights, established toward the close of the twelfth century, in imitation of the Templars and Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The order rapidly increased in numbers and strength till it became master of all Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by Napoleon; bu…