CUSTOM MADE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE HEAVY INFANTRY BLACK TEMPLAR KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE ALSO CALLED "Knights Templar"!!!
WITH CUSTOM MOLDED & HAND PAINTED HISTORICALLY ACCURATE & PROPORTIONATE MEDIEVAL CRUSADES ERA BUCKET STYLE HELMET (GRAND HELM)!!
FIGURE IS HAND PAINTED (ONLY THE RED CROSSES ARE STICKERS) WITH SOME WEATHERING EFFECT APPLIED BY DRY BRUSHING!!
COMES FULLY ARMED & READY FOR BATTLE WITH SWORD, SHIELD AND CUSTOM MADE BLACK TEMPLARS STANDARD!!
CARRIES A LARGE HEAVY INFANTRY FULL BODY SHIELD!!
CUSTOM MADE BLACK TEMPLARS CROSS STICKER APPLIED ON THE SHIELD!!
FULLY PLATED ARMORED LOOK!!
PLEASE CHECK THE DETAILED PICTURES!!
WILL BE SHIPPED BY EXPRESS REGISTERED MAIL WITH TRACKING!!
MADE BY PLAYMOBIL FANS & HISTORY LOVERS!!
WARNING!!
THESE PLAYMOBIL FIGURES HAVE MANY CUSTOM MOLDED OR 3D PRINTED & HAND PAINTED PARTS AND ACCESSORIES AND ARE MAINLY INTENDED FOR ADULT COLLECTORS AND DIORAMA CREATORS AND NOT AS MUCH FOR KIDS TO PLAY WITH!!
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It was a distinct Honor and Privilege to earn the right to wear the Black Cloak of the Templar Order!! The Black Templars with the Red Cross were the most Efficient and Capable Warriors in the Order of the "Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon", also known as "Knights Templar".....but were also the Most Fanatical....!!!!
After the Franks in the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate in 1099 A.D., many Christians made pilgrimages to various sacred sites in the Holy Land. Although the city of Jerusalem was relatively secure under Christian control, the rest of Outremer was not. Bandits and marauding highwaymen preyed upon these Christian pilgrims, who were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to make the journey from the coastline at Jaffa through to the interior of the Holy Land.
In 1119, the French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Warmund, Patriarch of Jerusalem, and proposed creating a Catholic monastic religious order for the protection of these pilgrims. King Baldwin and Patriarch Warmund agreed to the request, probably at the Council of Nablus in January 1120, and the king granted the Templars a headquarters in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Temple Mount had a mystique because it was above what was believed to be the ruins of the Temple of Solomon. The Crusaders therefore referred to the Al-Aqsa Mosque as Solomon's Temple, and from this location the new order took the name of Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, or "Templar" knights. The order, with about nine knights including Godfrey de Saint-Omer and André de Montbard, had few financial resources and relied on donations to survive. Their emblem was of two knights riding on a single horse, emphasizing the order's poverty.
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