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The Knights Templar

Summary

Starting in the 1120s, donations of land and goods fueled the expansion of the Knights Templar. Thanks to this growing wealth, they developed an innovative banking system for pilgrims in the Holy Land, which in turn fed rumors of greed and sowed the seeds of their eventual downfall.

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