(12-28-2021, 06:33 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: Nick learned from his mother, not Renard, that the seven grimm knights served the royal families. Since the Templars served the Church, knights serving the royals would not have been Templars. Or at least, they shouldn't have been; money makes a lot of things happen that shouldn't.
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(12-28-2021, 06:33 PM)FaceInTheCrowd Wrote: I'm not thoroughly familiar with the history of the Crusades, so if the Templars were not sent by the Church to participate in the Fifth Crusade's sack of Constantinople, that would have to mean that any of the grimm ancestors who were Templars were already going rogue if they went on that Crusade.
The battle of Constantinople seems to be a localized battle and there's no evidence the Templars participated. The Templars were looking out for pious men coming to the Holy Land and also were charged with defending the Crusader states of Edessa, Jerusalem, and Antioch. That, and looking out for their estates, banking with the royals, and doing accounting. One thing I read about the Templars is that, the Templars did not knight those within their organization. The knights were titled before becoming Templars.
While the Grimm knights no doubt took the title of Templar in vain, there is no doubt in my mind that they each earned the title of knight. Some of the knights back then were also kings. It also seems strange to me that the royals could take one of the knights and torture him for information. He would have been a man of status. Not that it couldn't be done, but it does seem strange.
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