At a subsequent period we learn that the Templar’s oath of initiation promised “obedientiam, castitatem, vivere sine proprio, et succurrere terræ sanctæ pro posse suo.” It was, moreover, enjoined upon them not to enter a house in which a woman lay in child-bed, not to be present at the celebration of weddings or the purification of women, nor to receive any service from a woman, even water for washing the hands.—See the proceedings against them in 1309, in Wilkins, II. 331 et seq.
[897] Rymer, Fœdera, I. 55.
[898] Wilkins II. 331-2.—Raynouard, Condamnation des Templiers, p. 83.
[899] Alexandri III. Epist. Append. III. No. 20 (Harduin. VI. P. II. p. 1557).
[900] Raynald. Annal. ann. 1210 No. 6, 7; ann. 1223 No. 54; ann. 1496 No. 33.
[901] Concil Vallis-oletan. ann. 1322 can vi. (Aguirre V. 243).
[902] Concil. Dertusan. ann. 1429 can. iii. (Harduin. VIII. 1076).
[903] Raynaldi Annal. ann. 1441 No. 20.—The Order of Calatrava was under the strictest of the rules, the Cistercian. (Giustiniani, Ordini Militari s. v.)
[904] Reg. Ord. Mil. Avisii a B. Joanne Cirita edita (Migne’s Patrologia, T. 188, p. 1669).
[905] Alexander’s Bull declares that “Milites dictarum militiarum pro majori parte, continentiæ et castitatis voto, qui in eorum professione emittunt, contempto, concubinas etiam plures, et in eorum ac præceptoriarum et prioratum dictarum militarum propriis domibus et locis, non sine magno religionis opprobrio, publice tenere et eis cohabitare, et etiam adulteria cum aliis mulieribus conjugatis committere non verentur: ex quo ab eorundem regnorum incolis et habitatoribus maximo odio habentur, dissensiones et inimicitiæ oriuntur, diversa scandala quotidie concitantur etc.”—Raynaldi Annal. ann. 1496 No. 33.