This is a list of some members of the Knights Templar, a powerful Christian military order during the time of the Crusades. At peak, the Order had approximately 20,000 members.
The Knights Templar were led by the Grand Master, originally based in Jerusalem, whose deputy was the Seneschal. Next in importance was the Marshal, who was responsible for individual commanders, horses, arms and equipment. He usually carried the standard or nominated a standard-bearer. The Commander of the Kingdom of Jerusalem was the treasurer and shared some authority with the Grand Master, balancing his power. Other cities also had Commanders with specific regional responsibilities.
The Grand Master and his Seneschal ruled over eight Templar provincial Masters in Europe, who were responsible for Apulia, Aragon, England, France, Hungary, Poitiers, Portugal and Scotland.
The bulk of the fighting force was made up of knights and sergeants. Knights, who usually came from the nobility, were the most prestigious and wore the white mantle and red cross over their armour, carried knightly weapons, rode horses and had the services of a squire. Sergeants filled other roles such as blacksmith or mason as well as fighting in battle. There were also squires who performed the task of caring for the horses.
Elyas de Rolleston, 1270, fought in the Eighth Crusade[5]
William de Goldingham d.1296 Master Templar, Gislingham,Suffolk. Effigy in All Saints Church, Rushton, Northamptonshire. Fought at the Battle of La Forbie 1244
Gebhard Preceptori domorum milicie Templi per Alemanniam 1241, 1244[citation needed]
Johannes Magistro summo preceptore milicie Templi per Teutoniam, per Boemiam, per Morauiam et per Poloniam 1251
Widekind Domum militie Templi in Alemania et Slauia preceptor Magister domorum militie Templi per Alemaniam et Poloniam 1261, 1268, 1271, 1279
R de Grae`ubius Preceptor domorum milicie Templi per Alemanniam et Slavia 1280 ?–1284
Friedrich Wildegraf Preceptor domorum milicie Templi per Alemanniam et Slauiam 1288–1292
Bertram gen. Czwek (von Esbeke) Commendator fratrum domus militie Templi in Almania, Bohemia, Polonia et Moravia 1294–1297
Friedrich von Alvensleben Domorum milicie Templi per Alemaniam et Slauiam preceptor 1303–1308
Hugo de Grumbach Grand master of Germany 1310 ?
Otto von Brunswick, Comtur of the Order of Knights Templar at Süpplingenburg 1303–1304
Lord Johan Kraus 1304–1307
Ruprecht Dilber 1194
Lieutenants
Jordanus von Esbeke domus milicie Templi per Alemaniam et Slauiam vicepreceptor 30 June 1288
Johan Decher (Decker) 1152–1153
Rhine
Alban von Randecke Rhine 1306
Friedrich Wildegraf Rhine 1308
Hungary and Croatia
Leaders of Knights Templar in Hungary had official title "masters of Knights Templar for Hungary and Slavonia" (meaning Croatia) (maestro della militia del tempio per Ungariam et Sclavoniam).[8]
1285–1291 – Bernhard von Eberstein Humilis preceptor domorum milicie Templi per Poloniam, Sclauiam, Novam TerramPreceptori et fratribus militie Templi in partibus Polonie, Pomeranie, Cassubie, Cracouie et Slauie 13 November 1291 – 1295
Arnaldo da Rocha? (In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, some authors and chroniclers of the history of the Portuguese Templar Order and its continuer, the Order of Christ, possibly based on original medieval source material in Braga and Tomar, cite the Portuguese Pedro Arnaldo da Rocha, of Burgundian and French parentage, as having been one of the founding knights of the militia of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, alongside Gondemare, and then in Portugal)[13]
Gondamer or Gondemare? (the same authors identify one of the 9 founders of the Knights Templar, the Knight Gondemare, as having Portuguese origin – possibly from medieval Gundemar; also spelled Gundemari or Gondemare, present-day Gondomar, in the County of Portugal))[14]
The following were masters in the Province of León, Castile and Portugal (based in Tomar, also temporarily in Castelo Branco), or the three kingdoms of Spain:
^Fulk after entrusting his county of Anjou to Henry II, King of England about 1119, had gone to Jerusalem where Orderic Vitalis states that he "attached himself for some time to the Knights of the Temple". Fulk returned to Anjou probably in the latter half of 1121 (The Laud Chronicle 1121 in "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles")
^Jean Richard, "The adventure of John Gale, knight of Tyre", in The Experience of Crusading, vol. 1, ed. Jonathan Riley-Smith, Peter W. Edbury, Jonathan P. Phillips, p. 195, n. 26
^Malcolm Barber, The New Knighthood, p. 353, n. 120.
^Died in Prison in Kyrenia in 1316. Chroniques d'Amadi et de Stambaldi, ed. Rene de Mas Latrie, Collection de documents inedits, 2 vols. (Paris, 1891–1893) p. 398
^[1] Memorias E Noticias Historicas Da Celebre Ordem Militar dos Templarios – Para a História da admirável da Ordem de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo, Alexandre Ferreira, 1735 (pp. 720, 750–52, 1032 ) (Portuguese, Latin)
^[2] André Jean Paraschi, 1990, Sol Invictus atelier (pp. 10–)
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