Templar History
Saladin – Salah al-Din Yusuf bin Ayub
Salah al-Din Yusuf bin Ayub or Saladin as he is popularly known was born in 1137 AD and was of Kurdish descent. The meaning of his Arabic name is “righteousness of the faith” As a […]
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Templar History
The Battle of Arsuf
by Stephen Dafoe Within a week of the Muslim victory at Hattin on July 4, 1187 the port city of Acre had surrendered to Saladin’s army. Within a month Toron, Sidon, Gibelet and Beirut had […]
Templar History
The Siege of Ascalon
by Stephen Dafoe Excerpted from the book Nobly Born: An Illustrated History of the Knights Templar On 25 January 1153 the Commander of the City of Jerusalem, along with the ten knights under his command, […]
Templar History
The Battle of Montgisard
Above Battle of Montgisard by Charles-Philippe Larivière by Stephen Dafoe The following article, part one in a series on Templar Battles, is adopted from Stephen Dafoe’s book Nobly Born: An Illustrated History of the Knights […]