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VERY RARE Crusaders Knight Templar CERTIFIED Antiquity Artifact fleur de lis
A shield applique or buckle for sheath
Ordre du Lys (Order of the Lily) The avowed purpose of the Order was the re-establishment of the Judaic-Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem and, until the 1995 change to the constitution, this was still stated as the prime purpose of the Order. The Sovereign of the Order was in theory the Reigning King of Jerusalem of the Anjou dynasty.
In 1307 the Order of the Temple was officially closed by the Avignon Pope, Clement V under the Orders of Philippe IV of France and Philippe arrested all members in France and sequestrated their goods. Scotland however was under excommunication from this same Pope, and was more than happy to give refuge to Templars. Many Templars would have had families or relatives in Scotland and it is likely that in return for safe haven that the Templars would have aided the Scots King in his fight against the English and it is possible that they took part in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
Certainly on 24th. October 1358, Alexander Montgomery, 2nd. son of Alexander de Montgomery of Egglesham received a safe conduct from the English to ‘Go abroad’ with a party of 60 mounted Templar Knights and Men-at-Arms. (1) It seems that they went to join their brethren of the Order of the Sword in Lithuania. The Order of the Sword was originally a daughter Order of the Templars. It is not unreasonable to claim however that when Rene founded his Crusading Orders of the Lys and the Crescent that he considered them a continuation of the Templars.
Holyland find
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Judaea Jerusalem Find from the Larkin Collection (formed before 1980)ANTI-dd
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