All 50 Uses of
Knights Templar
in
The Da Vinci Code
- More commonly known as the Knights Templar.†
Chpt 37-38
- Langdon had lectured often enough on the Knights Templar to know that almost everyone on earth had heard of them, at least abstractedly.
Chpt 37-38 *Knights Templar = an order of medieval knights that existed for two centuries after the First Crusade and who helped to protect Jerusalem and European pilgrims to Jerusalem when it was under Christian control
- For academics, the Templars' history was a precarious world where fact, lore, and misinformation had become so intertwined that extracting a pristine truth was almost impossible.†
Chpt 37-38
- Nowadays, Langdon hesitated even to mention the Knights Templar while lecturing because it invariably led to a barrage of convoluted inquiries into assorted conspiracy theories.†
Chpt 37-38
- You're saying the Knights Templar were founded by the Priory of Sion to retrieve a collection of secret documents?†
Chpt 37-38
- I thought the Templars were created to protect the Holy Land.†
Chpt 37-38
- The idea of protection of pilgrims was the guise under which the Templars ran their mission.†
Chpt 37-38
- Langdon quickly gave Sophie the standard academic sketch of the accepted Knights Templar history, explaining how the Knights were in the Holy Land during the Second Crusade and told King Baldwin II that they were there to protect Christian pilgrims on the roadways.†
Chpt 37-38
- Nobody was certain whether the Knights had blackmailed the Vatican or whether the Church simply tried to buy the Knights' silence, but Pope Innocent II immediately issued an unprecedented papal bull that afforded the Knights Templar limitless power and declared them "a law unto themselves"—an autonomous army independent of all interference from kings and prelates, both religious and political.†
Chpt 37-38
- With their new carte blanche from the Vatican, the Knights Templar expanded at a staggering rate, both in numbers and political force, amassing vast estates in over a dozen countries.†
Chpt 37-38
- Working in concert with France's King Philippe IV, the Pope devised an ingeniously planned sting operation to quash the Templars and seize their treasure, thus taking control of the secrets held over the Vatican.†
Chpt 37-38
- Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.†
Chpt 37-38
- The Knights Templar were obliterated?†
Chpt 37-38
- I thought fraternities of Templars still exist today?†
Chpt 37-38
- The Templars' potent treasure trove of documents, which had apparently been their source of power, was Clement's true objective, but it slipped through his fingers.†
Chpt 37-38
- The documents had long since been entrusted to the Templars' shadowy architects, the Priory of Sion, whose veil of secrecy had kept them safely out of range of the Vatican's onslaught.†
Chpt 37-38
- As the Vatican closed in, the Priory smuggled their documents from a Paris preceptory by night onto Templar ships in La Rochelle.†
Chpt 37-38
- The documents gave the Knights Templar so much power because the pages revealed the true nature of the Grail.†
Chpt 37-38
- Earlier, while telling Sophie about the Knights Templar, Langdon had realized that this key, in addition to having the Priory seal embossed on it, possessed a more subtle tie to the Priory of Sion.†
Chpt 39-40
- The equal-armed cruciform was symbolic of balance and harmony but also of the Knights Templar.†
Chpt 39-40
- Everyone had seen the paintings of Knights Templar wearing white tunics emblazoned with red equal-armed crosses.†
Chpt 39-40
- Granted, the arms of the Templar cross were slightly flared at the ends, but they were still of equal length.†
Chpt 39-40
- The Grail was believed to be somewhere in England, buried in a hidden chamber beneath one of the many Templar churches, where it had been hidden since at least 1500.†
Chpt 39-40
- A forgotten Templar church in this neighborhood?†
Chpt 39-40
- Beneath the cross were the words: DEPOSITORY BANK OF ZURICH Langdon was thankful not to have shared his Templar church hopes with Sophie.†
Chpt 39-40
- Sophie quickly outlined what Langdon had explained earlier—the Priory of Sion, the Knights Templar, the Sangreal documents, and the Holy Grail, which many claimed was not a cup...but rather something far more powerful.†
Chpt 53-54
- Sophie tilted her head and scanned the list of titles: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail THE GODDESS IN THE GOSPELS Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine "Here is perhaps the best-known tome," Teabing said, pulling a tattered hardcover from the stack and handing it to her.†
Chpt 59-60
- And these four chests of documents were the treasure that the Knights Templar found under Solomon's Temple?†
Chpt 59-60
- "The same man," Langdon said, "who ordered the Knights Templar to recover the Sangreal documents from beneath Solomon's Temple and thus provide the Merovingians proof of their hereditary ties to Jesus Christ."†
Chpt 59-60
- An ancient word of wisdom frees this scroll...and helps us keep her scatter'd family whole...a headstone praised by templars is the key...and atbash will reveal the truth to thee.†
Chpt 71-72
- "This poem," Teabing gushed, "references not only the Grail, but the Knights Templar and the scattered family of Mary Magdalene!†
Chpt 71-72
- "The password," Sophie said, "appears to have something to do with the Templars."†
Chpt 71-72
- 'A headstone praised by Templars is the key.'†
Chpt 71-72
- "Leigh," Langdon said, "you're the Templar specialist.†
Chpt 71-72
- It's possible the poem is referencing a gravestone the Templars praised at the tomb of Magdalene, but that doesn't help us much because we have no idea where her tomb is.†
Chpt 71-72
- We must find this headstone praised by Templars.†
Chpt 71-72
- Sophie sensed from the grim look on Langdon's face that finding the Templar headstone would be no small feat.†
Chpt 71-72
- This headstone praised by Templars.†
Chpt 75-76
- A headstone praised by Templars is the key.†
Chpt 75-76
- A headstone praised by Templars.†
Chpt 75-76
- A headstone praised by Templars.†
Chpt 75-76
- The Templar headstone—I figured it out.†
Chpt 75-76
- "Leigh," Langdon said, turning, "during the Inquisition, the Church accused the Knights Templar of all kinds of heresies, right?"†
Chpt 75-76
- Specifically, the Church accused the Templars of secretly performing rituals in which they prayed to a carved stone head...the pagan god—†
Chpt 75-76
- A headstone praised by Templars!†
Chpt 75-76
- The Templars honored Baphomet by encircling a stone replica of his head and chanting prayers.†
Chpt 75-76
- The Pope used the head of Baphomet as the linchpin in his case against the Templars.†
Chpt 75-76
- A headstone praised by Templars.†
Chpt 75-76
- "Okay," Sophie said, "but if Baphomet is the headstone praised by Templars, then we have a new dilemma."†
Chpt 75-76
- Consider the dynamic between the Church and the Knights Templar.†
Chpt 81-82
Definition:
an order of medieval knights that existed for two centuries after the First Crusade who provided military service and helped to protect European pilgrims to Jerusalem
Economics of the Templars:
For its day, the Templars developed an innovative banking system to help move money and supplies between Europe and Jerusalem and to support pilgrims along the way. During their 200 year history, the Templars became bankers for much of Europe and amassed significant wealth.
When the last Crusade failed, the organization lost much of its luster and King Philip of France pointed to mysterious initiation ceremonies as an excuse to plunder it. In 1307 King Phillip tortured Templars into "confessions" of devil worship and burned them at the stake. He seized most of their property in France. King Edward II followed suit in England.
Modern Templar Organizations:
Some organizations reference the Knights Templar of old, but are not thought to have an unbroken link to it. For example, Freemasons began incorporating Templar symbols and rituals in the 18th century. Their members can aspire to the title "Order of the Knights Templar." Similarly, The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, founded in 1804, has achieved United Nations NGO status as a charitable organization.
For its day, the Templars developed an innovative banking system to help move money and supplies between Europe and Jerusalem and to support pilgrims along the way. During their 200 year history, the Templars became bankers for much of Europe and amassed significant wealth.
When the last Crusade failed, the organization lost much of its luster and King Philip of France pointed to mysterious initiation ceremonies as an excuse to plunder it. In 1307 King Phillip tortured Templars into "confessions" of devil worship and burned them at the stake. He seized most of their property in France. King Edward II followed suit in England.
Modern Templar Organizations:
Some organizations reference the Knights Templar of old, but are not thought to have an unbroken link to it. For example, Freemasons began incorporating Templar symbols and rituals in the 18th century. Their members can aspire to the title "Order of the Knights Templar." Similarly, The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, founded in 1804, has achieved United Nations NGO status as a charitable organization.