The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades . orse had to serve two knightsof the Temple. When Baldwin II. was released from captivity (1128),he sent envoys to Europe to implore aid of the Christianpowers. Among these were Hugh de Payens, and someothers of the brethren of the Temple. The Templars ap-peared before the council of Troyes, and gave an accountof their order and its objects, which were highly approvedof by the fathers. The celebrated Bernard, abbot ofClairvaux, took a lively interest in its welfare, and madesome improvements in its rule. A white
The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades . orse had to serve two knightsof the Temple. When Baldwin II. was released from captivity (1128),he sent envoys to Europe to implore aid of the Christianpowers. Among these were Hugh de Payens, and someothers of the brethren of the Temple. The Templars ap-peared before the council of Troyes, and gave an accountof their order and its objects, which were highly approvedof by the fathers. The celebrated Bernard, abbot ofClairvaux, took a lively interest in its welfare, and madesome improvements in its rule. A white mantle wasassigned as their habit, to which Pope Eugenius someyears afterwards added a plain red cross on the left breast; M 242 FULK. [1131. their banner was formed of the black and white stripedcloth named JBauseant, which word became their battle-cry, and it bore the humble inscription, Not unto us, OLord, hut unto thy name be glory ! Hugh de Payens re-turned to Syria at the head of three hundred knights ofthe noblest houses of the West, who had become mem-bers of the Master of the Temple. The Hospitallers now found it necessary to imitate theTemplars in uniting the military and monastic knights of the two rival orders henceforth foughtwith emulative valour ; their possessions in the East andthe West furnished them with funds for the maintenanceof such as took service beneath their banners, and thechief strength of the kingdom lay in their arms, courage,and discipline. The head of the Templars was styled the Master* of i * Sometimes, though less frequently, called Grand (i, e. Great) Master. 1131.] THE ASSASSINS. 243 the Temple ; their settlements were called Preceptories,and those who were over them were named requisites for admission into the society of the Tem-plars were the same as those of the Hospitallers ; in ad-dition, it was required that the candidate should be of aknightly family, the order being in its very essence mili-tary
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