Los templarios

Jerusalem, 1119. After the violence of the First Crusade, a small group of knights in search of redemption decided to found a new religious order with the aim of protecting Christian pilgrims on their trips to the Holy Land. From this humble origin, the Templars would grow over the next two centuries to become the richest and most powerful religious order in Christendom. Their spectacular end, when an envious king accused them of heresy, blasphemy and orgies, only increased their legend, which lasts to this day. Dan Jones addresses the fast-paced history of the Knights Templar, intertwined with the crusades in the Holy Land and in Spain, and creates with his elegant prose a credible and vivid portrait of the Templars, from their battles dressed in their iconic white robes with a large Red Cross, to the sophisticated financial network they wove throughout Europe, where they enjoyed remarkable privileges and the favor of kings, nobles, popes and emperors. This is an epic tale of war, religion, money and power, whose surprising ending, the famous Friday the 13th, 1312, constitutes one of the most fascinating moments in medieval history.