First Knights Templar are discovered

[katty]

more: http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0%2C20281%2C18761160-5001027%2C00.html

First Knights Templar are discovered

April 10, 2006

LONDON: The first bodies of the Knights Templar, the mysterious religious order at the heart of The Da Vinci Code, have been found by archaeologists near the River Jordan in northern Israel.

British historian Tom Asbridge yesterday hailed the find as the first provable example of actual Knights Templar.

The remains were found beneath the ruined walls of Jacob's Ford, an overthrown

castle dating back to the Crusades, which had been lost for centuries.

[Sequoia]

1. Oh sure, they've been waiting for the movie to open.

[katty]

3. i know...what timing, eh??!!

[Sequoia]

5. You know, I liked the book but I don't think Tom Hanks

was the best choice for this. After all, in the book he was a younger man, 30 something. Not some mullet hair style 40s guy. Just like that vampire movie with dopey ole Tom Cruise in it.

[xultar]

6. Ewan McGregor would have been GREAT!!! I don't think Hanks was

the best pick either. Mainly because well I was sexually attracted to the character in the book and Hanks breaks that spell.

[Sequoia]

8. I know what you mean. The book guy was sexy seeming.

Hank....ummm....no. He played that dufus charcter very well and it became him.

[katty]

9. yeah, I don't get the Tom Hanks lead..let's see what actor

would have been better...daniel craig (the new bond guy)or joseph fiennes

[katty]

10. i was thinking Ewan as well

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Maybe they were trying to counteract the controversy by putting Hanks in

the lead?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. So these guys went there to destroy the "heathens", right?

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. And they were so successful. nt

[Kagemusha]

11. Heathens fight back.

I've heard some of the tales of where the Templars didn't have a good day, namely against a Polish/Lithuanian alliance. Very costly in peasant infantry for the Poles, but the Templars lost an awful lot of heavily equipped people.

It was them or one of the other orders but, I think they basically were wiped out as heathens of their own when the King of France owed them a little too much money, and found them even more convenient to get rid of than Jewish bankers.

[bobbieinok]

12. Teutonic Knights were a different group that fought in Poland, etc

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0848300.html