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Temple Balsall The Warwickshire Preceptory of the Templars and Their Fate
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This is a detailed study of what life would have been like at the Templars’ commandery at Temple Balsall in Warwickshire.
Its author, Eileen Gooder, was a leading scholar in local history and an expert on the Templars in England. The book is based on her unparalleled knowledge of the inventories that King Edward II of England ordered to be made of the Templars’ estates when the Templars were arrested in England in 1308 and the accounts kept by the royal officials who ran those estates until 1313.
Gooder also reconstructed the trial proceedings against the Balsall Templars and what…
From Helen's list on the real history of the Knights Templar.
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