The Knights Templar: Origins

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]In 1119 AD, nine knights showed up in Jerusalem with a strange request. They wanted to live inside the ruins of Solomon's Temple. Nobody knew why. That mystery never went away. The Crusades had just captured Jerusalem and thousands of Christian pilgrims were flooding into the Holy Land.

[00:00:19]The roads were deadly. Bandits, ambushes, no protection. These nine knights appointed themselves guardians of the pilgrims. That was their official reason for being there. But nine men couldn't protect thousands of pilgrims across hundreds of miles of hostile territory.

[00:00:37]Historians have always suspected their real mission was something else entirely. Something beneath the Temple Mount, where they spent years quietly digging. Within two decades, they went from nine unknown knights to the most powerful military order in the world, backed by the Pope, feared by kings, and richer than most nations. Nobody rises that fast without finding something extraordinary. Part two drops tomorrow.

[00:01:00]Don't miss it.