Talk:The Saint (Simon Templar)/Archive 1

Templar name
What connection does Simon Templar have with the Knights Templar? Any? I remember an allusion to a connection in the very begining of the Kilmer film.

None at all, except for the name. Hayford Peirce 19:05, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Is there a reason for Leslie to use the name Templar ?
 * I've never heard anything about the origin of the name, however the fact one of the Saint books was named Knight Templar indicates he was well aware of the original meaning of the name. 23skidoo 13:06, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


 * The article currently states "His true name is unknown, and the name 'Templar' was adopted at an early age from reading about the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, the Knights Templar"; but if this is about the name of Leslie Charteris's literary character (rather than the modern-day hero of the Val Kilmer film) then it is unsupported - in the 1928-83 series of books written or edited by Charteris, the character name has no such backstory and there is no reason to believe Simon Templar is an assumed name; plus the Charteris-edited "The Saint and the Hapsburg Nacklace" reveals that Simon himself was relatively unaware of the history or deeds of the Knights Templar but upon learning of them, Simon imagines that an ancestor of his must've been a Knight Templar who survived the purges, adopting the Templar surname (which indicates Templar is indeed his genuine family surname). Certainly, Charteris was well aware of the Kinghts Templar but the character of Simon Templar himself was not until that story (published in 1975).  Frankymole 20:17, 20 July 2012 (UTC)