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Baldock in Hertfordshire was established by the Knights Templar [6] and between 1199 and 1254 it was their English headquarters. The Hertford Mercury newspaper reported a warren of Templar tunnels beneath the town of Hertford, centering on Hertford Castle , where in 1309 four Templars from Temple Dinsley near Hitchin were imprisoned after their ...
The Knights Templar School is a co-educational secondary school with academy status located in the market town of Baldock in North Hertfordshire, England.In a February 2006 Ofsted report, the school was described as "outstanding", one of only eight secondary schools in Hertfordshire to be so recognised.
Castle of Soure - received and reconstructed in March 1128, was the first castle of the Knights Templar. [16] ... Hertfordshire [27] The Manor of Temple Ewell, Kent [1]
The following is a list of the monastic houses in Hertfordshire, England. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks ( Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller ).
Hertfordshire was a focal point for the Knights Templar in England. The Manor of Dinsley, which was formerly part of the Manor of Hitchin was given to the Knights Templar in the 12th century after a chapter of the Order of the Temple meeting in Paris in 1147. [9]
Knights Templar: It has been speculated that the cave may have been used by the Knights Templar before their dissolution by Pope Clement V in 1312. [3] Although claims have been made that this religious-military institution of the Catholic Church held a weekly market at Royston between 1199 and 1254, the market charter was in fact granted to ...
Baldock was founded by the Knights Templar (after whom the town's secondary school is named) as a medieval market town in the 1140s. [5] It was laid out by the Knights Templar on land in the manor of Weston in the hundred of Broadwater, [6] granted by the earl of Pembroke, Gilbert de Clare, before his death in 1148. [7]
A view of Baldock in 1787 showing St Mary's church. The advowson or patronage of the church of St. Mary at Baldock originally belonged to the Knights Templar, who built the original church in about 1150 on land given to them by Gilbert de Clare, the Earl of Pembroke (parts of this early church are found at the east end of the chancel), and it continued in their possession until their ...