Following Orders

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

To tell you the truth, if it wouldnt had been to hard to find a MR double wrap belt from KOH, i mite not have given up on the Templar ....

I take this as an admission of his recanting of faith.........

[Just Jesse]

I did also lose my faith...but not my love of history, for i am a history major..

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

I did also lose my faith...but not my love of history, for i am a history major..

And who said they didn't play baseball in the Middle Ages.....cause you're batting a thousand right now!!!

[Just Jesse]

I don't understand ahah, its just everything Ive studied, and learned, points to, well nothing happening ahha. So i used to have great hopes in historians discovering something about the Templars, that proved in god...and one day being one of them, maybe. But it's not looking well haha.

[Sir Samuel]

GREETINGS ALL,
Templar Jesse, Give up not the good fight to find the True Templar in you. It is there with vigor. Just let it flow from within. and alas!!! Sir William I have recieved as a birthday gift from one of our newest Neophytes, a double wrap belt suitable for my Hospitillars Clothing now I seek myself a newer Sword and Dirk. OOOOHHHH how I love to buy me things.....

[SirMichael]

Greetings Brothers & Sisters,


A special welcome to Sir Samuel and Semper Fi Devil Dog. I served in the US Army but carry the devil dog on my arm as a tattoo. I was on TDY at Bragg, when I got married. My Father in Law was a retired Sgt. Major. after the bachelor party which we drank a whole battle jug of that sojo rice whiskey, he had just came back from Camp Casey where he worked for DoD after retiring from the corp. I awoke with a patch and pain on my arm. Behold when I lifted the patch it was the devil dog, but on his belt buckle it said MP not USMC. My father in law had a good laugh on me. I still feel a pride in having it on my arm.

To Warrior Monk, a new saying  Qui Audet Adipiscitur!

Wishing all a great weekend


Sir Michael

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

  Qui Audet Adipiscitur!

You could say that the Crusaders of the past made that true before the 22d SAS took it, or you might say "He who has faith, wins".

[Lord Clisto of York]

I did also lose my faith...but not my love of history, for i am a history major..

And who said they didn't play baseball in the Middle Ages.....cause you're batting a thousand right now!!!

And, just look at all the heads that were batted about with maces, clubs and flails. The only difference is they don't run the bases. LOL..

Lord Clisto, Knight of the Holy Blade of York,
Duke of York

[Sir Samuel]

A fine Thanks to you Sir Michael, and if I may congradulations on your aquired arm patch, He must have felt good enough about you to have given you such a fine piece of art to forever carry on your person.

[Just Jesse]

So i just watched my DC KOH for the first time in a year last nite, haha. I miss it

[SleepyArcher]

funny enough that movie started it all for me as far as garb. I walked into a costume shop in town that is a deale for museum replicas and they had a pic of orlando bloom dressed to the hilt and I told them that is what I wanted and that is what I got. I have all the tunics from the movie except for the Hospitallers. I could watch that movie every day.

[Monsignor de Beaumanoir]

The following was a discrepancy that I noted in the book: God's Battalions. On page 169 in the chapter labeled: The Crusader Kingdoms, the author mentions that the Norwegian King Magnus Barefoot came to the Outremer and supported King Baldwin I. The Norwegian in question he is probably referring to is Sigurd I Magnusson or Sigurd Jorsalfare (Jerusalem-farer) or one of Magnus' sons.


Reference:

Magnus Barefoot, son of Olaf Kyrre and grandson of Harald Hardrada, was King of Norway from 1093 until 1103 and King of Mann and the Isles from 1099 until 1102. The epithet "barefoot" is commonly understood to come from his habit of wearing Gaelic-style clothing, leaving lower legs bare. According to another theory, he got the nickname because he was forced to flee from an attack in his barefeet.

Magnus made war with Sweden and Denmark and sought to build a Norwegian empire around the Irish Sea. In 1093 Magnus Barefoot led a Norse fleet from Mann to Ynys Môn, Gwynedd, and appeared off of the coast at Ynys Seiriol (Puffin Island), interrupting a Norman victory celebration after they had recently defeated the Welsh of Gwynedd. In the battle that followed between the Norman occupiers and the Norse, known as the Battle of Anglesey Sound, Magnus shot dead the earl of Shrewsbury with an arrow to the eye. In 1098, he conquered the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man. Magnus returned to Norway in 1099 but in 1102 set out again, this time to conquer Ireland. He captured Dublin and the surrounding area.

After the success in capturing Dublin, Magnus turned his attentions to the north. In the following year, 1103, he moved towards Ulster along with his new Irish ally, the powerful self proclaimed King of Ireland, Muirchertach Ua Briain, whose daughter had married Magnus's son, Sigurd I Magnusson. The Irish forces opposed to him were defeated in several battles and Magnus's army overran a large part of Ulster. Muirchertach Ua Briain now left with his army to go to Connaught. Magnus decided now to return to Norway, while leaving a portion of his forces to hold Dublin and its surrounding lands. He sent message with a small group of his men to Muirchertach Ua Briain to send provisions for the sea journey ahead of him. Whilst awaiting these supplies, they saw a large dust cloud on the horizon. Unsure as to whether this was an enemy force or the overdue supplies from Connaught, King Magnus advanced through a marshy area to observe the approach. It was discovered that it was indeed the men with the supplies they were awaiting, satisfied at this, Magnus ordered his men back to the camp area to get prepared for the embarkation.
It was at this point that a large Irish force reared out from their hiding places in the marsh, putting into action an ambush that had been stalking the Viking army for some time. The Viking forces being taken by surprise were not in battle order and Magnus attempted to assert control over his disordered army, ordering a portion of his force to seize the high ground and provide archer fire to slow down the Irish. In the ensuing melee, King Magnus received wounds to his legs, being pierced by a spear through both thighs above the knees but fought on attempting to get his men back to the level ground of the camp site. An axe wielding Irishman charged the King and struck him in the neck, before he was himself was killed by Magnus's personal guard. King Magnus died where he fell.

Magnus was married to Margareta (the daughter of his former enemy Inge Stenkilsson, King of Sweden), in 1101 at Kungahälla. They did not have surviving children. His extant sons at his death were Olaf Magnusson, Øystein Magnusson and Sigurd Magnusson (later known as Sigurd Jorsalfar or Crusader) who all together succeeded him.


Sigurd I Magnusson (ca. 1090 – 26 March 1130), also known (in Norwegian) as Sigurd Jorsalfare (Old Norse Sigurðr Jórsalafari, translation: Sigurd the Crusader, literal translation: Sigurd, the Jerusalem-farer) was king of Norway from 1103 to 1130. He initially shared the throne with his brothers Øystein and Olav, but ruled alone from 1123.

In 1107, Sigurd led a Norwegian contingent in support of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. He was the first European king to go on crusade, and his crusader feats earned him the nickname Jorsalafari ("Jerusalem-farer"). He fought in Lisbon, various Mediterranean islands and Palestine, and visited king Roger II of Sicily in Palermo, Jerusalem (Jorsalaland) and Constantinople (Miklagard). He joined forces with Baldwin I, King of Jerusalem to capture the coastal city of Sidon in 1110.

After returning to Norway in 1111, Sigurd made his capital in Konghelle (Kungälv in present-day Sweden) and built a castle there, where he kept a relic given to him by King Baldwin, a splinter reputed to be from the True Cross. In 1123 Sigurd once again set out to fight in the name of the church, this time to Småland in Sweden, where the inhabitants had renounced their Christian faith and were again worshipping their former gods.

[SirMichael]

Warrior Monk,

Thanks for the info...you are truely amazing with the amount of detail you provide. To my fellow Brothers, I hope you all had a great weekend and a good week to follow.

Agis Quod Adis


Sir Michael

[Sir William Marcus]

Friday, November 20, 2009
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8-9pm -- Lost Worlds - Knights Templar.
They defended the Holy Land through bloodshed and prayer. Founded in the 12th century, these Christian warrior monks reigned supreme for nearly 200 years before suffering a spectacular fall from grace. Tried for heresy, they were disbanded and their Grand Master burned at the stake. We'll search behind the legend for their lost world. We recreate the city they knew as Tortosa--now hidden among modern homes in the Syrian city of Tartus. We reveal secrets of their headquarters at Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with magnificent underground vaults that could stable 1,000 horses. And we visit the circular church in London built to resemble the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and the site of the Templar's mysterious initiation rites. We bring to life the hilltop fortress that Lawrence of Arabia called "the finest castle in the world", and return to the Mediterranean island where the Knights Templar made their last stand against Moslem enemies.

[Sir William Marcus]