Jones covers around two centuries of history in ‘The Templars'. Told chronologically, he recounts how the order of the Knights Templars was founded in 1119 for the purpose of protecting Christian ...

In contemporary literature, the Order of the Knights Templar was the focus of novels by Dan Brown (“The DaVinci Code”), Umberto Eco (“Foucault’s Pendulum”) and Ken Follett (“The Pillars of the Earth”) ...