Author(s): Dan Jones

History

The Knights Templarwere the wealthiest, most powerful - and most secretive - of the militaryorders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story - encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealthand influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall- has left a comet's tail of mysterythat continues to fascinate and inspire historians, novelists and conspiracy theorists.