The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple

by C. G. Addison

[47] Will. Tyr. lib. xvii. cap. 20, ad ann. 1152.

[48] S. Bernardi epistolæ, 288, 289, 392, ed. Mabillon.

[49] Anselmi Gemblacensis Chron. ad ann. 1153. Will. Tyr. lib. xvii. cap. 27.

[50] Captus est inter cæteros ibi Bertrandus de Blanquefort, Magister Militiæ Templi, vir religiosus ac timens Deum. Will. Tyr. lib. xviii. cap. 14. Registr. epist. apud Martene vet. script. tom. ii. col. 647.

[51] Milites Templi circa triginta, ducentos Paganorum euntes ad nuphas verterent in fugam, et divino præsidio comitante, omnes partim ceperunt, partim gladio trucidarunt. Registr. epist. ut sup. col. 647.

[52] Will. Tyr. lib. xix. cap. 8.

[53] Epist. xvi. S. Remensi archiepiscopo et ejus suffraganeis pro ecclesia Jerosolymitana et militibus Templi, apud Martene vet. script. tom. ii. col. 647.

[54] Islam, the name of the Mahometan religion. The word signifies literally, delivering oneself up to God.

[55] Keightley’s Crusaders.

[56] The virtues of Noureddin are celebrated by the Arabic Historian Ben-Schunah, in his Raoudhat Almenadhir, by Azzeddin Ebn-al-ather, by Khondemir, and in the work entitled, “The flowers of the two gardens,” by Omaddeddin Kateb. See also Will. Tyr. lib. xx. cap. 33.