Welcome to our website, where you enter the world of the Templars.
We are pleased that you are here and gladly share the history, meanings and spirit of our Order..
We are a Templar Order in the Netherlands. We are the Dutch house of the Order:
The Black Knights Templars Of Solomon.
We belong to the Scandinavian Order, also referred to as “the Main.”
Under this structure fall Sweden (head seat), Norway, Denmark and Germany.
Belgium is currently in formation.
Templars safeguard the precious heritage of our medieval Grand Masters and the Brothers of the
We are Christians and serve our God, Christ and all His saints according to the spirit of the Templar Rule.
Within the tradition of the Order the following virtues are emphasized:
Faith
Loyalty
Honor
Honesty
Patience
Courage
Chivalry
Mercy
Courtesy
Justice
Strength
Wisdom
Together these virtues form the Templar Code which we strive to uphold.
The Order was founded around the year 1118 in Jerusalem by Hugues de Payens and Godfrey of Saint-Omer, together with seven fellow nobles.
The Order was founded around the year 1118 in Jerusalem by Hugues de Payens and Godfrey of Saint-Omer, together with seven fellow nobles.
Their way of life found its foundation in the Latin Rule of the Templars, consisting of 72 articles, established under the leadership of Hugues de Payens and confirmed during the Council of Troyes on January 13, 1129, under the spiritual guidance of Bernard of Clairvaux.
To this day this rule forms the heart of the Templar ideal:
devotion, discipline and service.
Members are expected to apply these principles in their lives as faithfully as possible.
Allow yourself to be inspired and travel with us to the Middle Ages.
Discover who Bernard of Clairvaux was and why his influence became so great.
A warm welcome to the world of the Templars and to our Order.
Go with God’s blessing, in Brotherhood,
Brothers & Sisters of The Black Knights Templars Of Solomon
Prologue to the Rule of the Order of the Temple,
for knights who wanted to lay down their former life to serve Christ in purity.
Ci comence le prologue de la regle dou
ga ueros pones menue temple.
Premierement a tos ceaus qui mesprisent
siecle et les propres volentes et desirent
opure corage servir de chevalerie au sou
verain Roi et chevalour cast desircnt
accomplir et accomplissent purmignust la
tres noble armure d’obedience. Et vous
ques nos vos amonestons vos qui aues ne
neceualier chevalerie uisques a cui que
liu aue ne su mie cure mes seulement por
lamour salu vos enbatailliez que vos foi
tes auaques quels dieu a chisie la milice
et predication. Et por ce plus la graude pite
de la religion et sainte yglise qui nos vos
justes uolontre de uostre perfectionement.
Deus autes choses que onques font de
uolues de cuer et choisant fait la sainte uo
cation cor entee en profession auant. Lors
est pure diligence a tenir uostre couenant.
First we address all those who despise the worldly life and wish to renounce their own will, and who desire to serve the highest King in the knightly vocation with a pure heart.
Those who choose this path seek to follow the holy and exalted knightly Order and to gird themselves with the noble armour of obedience.
Therefore we exhort you who until now have been worldly knights, who did not always fight for the sake of Christ but for honour or earthly reward. We call upon you to join those whom God has chosen as His holy host.
With great care and fervent devotion, everyone who feels this calling must join this holy brotherhood and dedicate themselves to the service of the Church.
For when someone chooses this holy vocation with a sincere heart and binds himself to it, he must hold fast with perseverance and pure devotion to the covenant he has accepted.
In essence this means:
It is, in essence, a call to a holy knightly vocation.
The name Templar evokes images of knights, crusades and mystery.
Yet behind these images lies a history that is often misunderstood.
The Templars were not ordinary knights.
Their origin lies in a unique combination of monastic life and knightly service.
Their Rule, written in the twelfth century, clearly reflects the spirit of the great reformer Bernard of Clairvaux: obedience, self-denial and devotion to a higher purpose.
On this website we seek to present the story of the Templars anew — calmly, carefully and as faithfully as possible to the historical sources.
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For the writing Pilgrims among us
Sometimes it is the small moments that move us:
a church discovered along the way, an ancient custom encountered somewhere, or an old story that was shared with you.
Feel free to leave a trace and become part of this story.
Together we preserve what might otherwise be lost.
We gladly give such stories a
place on this website, under the subject to which they belong. If a story does not fit within a specific subject, it will be placed under Testimonium.
You may also write something in our guestbook, which we call the Liber Peregrinorum — the Pilgrims’ Book. In this way others may also discover your trace.
For every memory and every discovery adds something. Together they make the story richer and more complete.
Slowly this place grows into a chronicle of many voices, just as a cathedral was never built in a single day.
This place exists not by us alone, but by all who leave a trace here.
