This evening, though, he is Hugh de Payns, a French knight who died in 1136 after establishing a military order known as the Knights Templar. It is Memorial Day weekend and we are in a hotel in ...

How did such a powerful international organisation suddenly find itself brought down?

The Knights Templar were originally founded around 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims travelling to the Holy Land. Over time, the order assumed greater military duties, but the order's growing ...