Talk:The Knight Templar

Christendom/Christianity
When I wrote "all of Christendom" I meant the Christian world (and territories), I wasn't talking about the religion. I changed the formulation to avoid confusion.

DarkAvenger 21:46, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

It says: "After a series of battles, Saladin lays siege to the city and fortress of Gaza". Actually, I believe that the siege of Gaza takes place almost immediatley after the encounter with Saladin, without any battles between. All that happens is the ceremony for Armand. Also, the description of what happens in the north at the same time is rather short, since it is in fact at least a third of the book. I'll make some changes to the article, and I hope nobody will complain.

Ulvbot (talk) 17:16, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Well, There's a crusader-campaign that takes place just before and persumably during and a bit after the siege of Gaza:

"Phillip of Flanders with a great part of the worldy army and the "Johannites"(Hospitallers) are on their way up to syria, most likely Hama or Homs, probably not Damascus." p. 84

However, as you said, it's very vauge and there's no mentions of "battles" in the holy land with Saladin before the siege of Gaza and the battle at Ashkelon.

Personaly, im more interested in if the Templar's "black rank"/Castle lord rank and other things about the order explained in the book are real? the wiki page on templar knights leave sadly many unanswered questions about the organisation the reader learns about in the book. Obviously much is fiction, but much allsow seem to be real events, changed but, but none the less drawn from research of real history.

Things like: the sergeants in the book acts like infantry/archers during combat, in the book, while the wiki-page just say they had the roles of: "Light cavarly and menial tasks" as if they where primarly non-combatants. altough that's an assumtion.

Allsow, there's no whatsoever mention of the outremer frankish people refered in the book as "subar" ( p. 241 ) in wikipedia, there's nothing to be found about them. Searched a bit on google, nothing there either.

Oh well, this is a great book, which i'd recommend, altough the other books in the trilogy i would not. --Byzantios (talk) 14:01, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Why is This Book on Wikipedia?
Why is a historical romance book of unimportance included as a separate article on Wikipedia? This is just historical fiction. While it may be entertaining, does it actually meet any criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia? Should Wikipedia include every book that has been published? Should Wikipedia continue to list fantasy books while disallowing factually historical, and academic books, unless they are best sellers? Look at all of the articles on academic scholars that Wikipedia deletes every single year... Why are we deleting those people and their work, and retaining imaginary, useless stuff like this? There needs to be some kind of criteria for articles worthy of inclusion/exclusion on Wikipedia, and at this moment there is not...Stevenmitchell (talk) 20:44, 21 November 2019 (UTC)