Contents: introductory; poor fellow soldiers of Jesus Christ; rule of the poor Knighthood of the Temple; Templars and the Holy See; kingdom of Jerusalem; fall of the Holy City; Constantinople and Cairo; Temple in Europe; Khorasmians; later rule of the Temple; final struggle; Christendom and Islam; decline of the Papacy;arrest of the Templars in France; Templars and the Inquisitors; trial of the Templars in England; trial of the Templars in France; suppression of the Temple; bibliography.