What is the general consensus on /x/ about the Knights Templar?

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Templarfag (ID: !Se2h6e08.g)
2017-08-28 08:36:00 Post No. 19506894
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Templarfag (ID: !Se2h6e08.g) 2017-08-28 08:36:00 Post No. 19506894 [Report]

What is the general consensus on /x/ about the Knights Templar?
Were they truly in league with demons (Either literally, or metaphorically), or was their downfall a screwjob by the church?

Because I've been researching the history of my family in the Old World I recently found out I'm descended from a pardoned templar and it piqued my curiosity. I had already known my family was one of the first colonists in the New World and that the family itself helped construct much of what is now Quebec remaining, but the fact we were literally crusaders in the Outremer a few centuries prior paints everything the family has done here in a different light.

What does /x/ know of the templars immediately following the pardons of the 14th century, and what influence did they have in the New World in the 16th and 17th?

Putting on a trip just in case people have questions, I'll try to answer as many as I can without revealing personal information.

Anonymous 2017-08-28 08:37:02 Post No.19506901
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Anonymous 2017-08-28 08:37:02 Post No.19506901 [Report]

Are you Canadian?

Anonymous 2017-08-28 08:42:46 Post No.19506931
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Anonymous 2017-08-28 08:42:46 Post No.19506931 [Report]

>>19506894
After their "downfall" they ceased to exist. Anyone who was pardoned renounced the Templars and even if they continued in secret, it would have died out within a generation or two.

Anonymous 2017-08-29 04:03:53 Post No.19509009
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>>19506894
You have it backwards, the Knights Templars were the good guys, following the will of God, it was the evil Catholic Church that brought about their downfall as soon as they're usefulness had run out.

Anonymous 2017-08-29 05:24:33 Post No.19509417
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>>19506894
They were powerful, a king and a pope feared that, they were tried and executed on false charges to stop them going all Teutonic/Hospitaller and becoming a political threat. That's all.

Templarfag (ID: !Se2h6e08.g) 2017-08-29 05:57:25 Post No.19509541
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Templarfag (ID: !Se2h6e08.g) 2017-08-29 05:57:25 Post No.19509541 [Report]

>>19506901
French Canadian, yes.

>>19506931
>even if they continued in secret, it would have died out within a generation or two.
I think the family may have buried the templar connection given what had just happened though they seemed to have stayed in good standing as one of his grandsons became a renowned knight of his time who saw combat during the Hundred Years' War.

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