Everything about Knights Templar In Scotland totally explained
This article is solely about the medieval Order in Scotland. The Modern Order is discussed in
Scottish Knights Templar.
In
1128 the cousin of St
Bernard of Clairvaux,
Hugues de Payens, who served on the
First Crusade with Henri St Clair, 2nd
Baron of Roslin,, and is sometimes connected to Catherine St Clair, met King
David I in
Scotland. The Order established a seat at
Balantrodoch, now
Temple, Midlothian on the South Esk (
River Esk, Lothian). In
1189 Alan FitzWalter, the 2nd Lord
High Steward of Scotland was a benefactor of The Order.
In about the year 1187,
William the Lion granted part of the
Culter lands on the south bank of the
River Dee, Aberdeenshire, to the Knights Templar and between 1221 and 1236 Walter Bisset of
Aboyne founded a
Preceptory for the Knights Templar. In 1287 and 1288 they built a Chapel dedicated to Mary the Mother of Christ, known as St Mary's Chapel and in November 1309, the names of a William Middleton of the “Tempill House of Culter” was recorded.
It has been claimed that in
1309 during the trial of the Templars in Scotland
Bishop Lamberton of
St Andrews,
Guardian of Scotland 1299-1301 gave the Templars his protection, thought there's no evidence to support this. . It should also be recorded that John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation a major Scottish mediaeval source makes no mention of the Templars at all.
In 1312 by the Papal Bull "Ad Providam" all assets of the Order of the Temple were given to
Knights Hospitaller or Order of St. John except for Spain where they were succeeded by the
Order of Montesa the
Order of Calatrava, from which its first recruits were drawn, and Portugal where they became the
Order of Christ and it has been claimed that in Scotland the Order combined with the Hospitallers and continued as The Order of St John and the Temple until the reformation, though there's no evidence to that effect. When
Sir James Sandilands, Preceptor of the Order converted to Protestantism in 1553, the Order had been defunct for nearly 250 years. .
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