History of the Crusades of the Knights Templar
The Knights Templar formally the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ of the Temple of Solomon played a significant military role in the Crusades, a series of religious wars initiated by Western European Christians primarily between 1095 and 1291. These campaigns aimed to recapture Jerusalem and other holy sites in the Levant from Muslim control, while also defending Christian pilgrims and the Crusader states established after the First Crusade. Levant is French for rising sun in the east Mediterranean. Now Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria. Home of Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam or Mohammedism. The phrasing "drive back the encroachment of the Muslims" reflects a perspective common in medieval Christian sources and some modern interpretations: viewing Muslim expansion particularly by the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia and ongoing control of formerly Christian territories in the Middle East as an existential threat to Christendom that needed to be reversed or contained ...