Location:
Roman Empire
Political Characteristics:
The foundation of the Templars in 1118 provided the first in a series of tightly organized military forces which protected the Christian lands.
Economic Characteristics:
It was a direct reflection of the economic Decentralization of feudalism. Most wars were fought not by nation states but by rival monarchs who raised armies by levying requirements for soldiers and arms on subvassals. Accordingly, there were no centralized arms industries, no permanent standing military forces to speak of, and no efforts to maintain logistical organizations or to train armies. What few efforts were made in these areas were made by local vassals as they saw fit.
They have very prestigious position in society.
Took care of the weak.
The ceremonies were very important for them.
Social Characteristics:
The decentralization that characterized feudalism placed the armed knight at the pinnacle of the social and military order, and the form
of mounted individualized combat at which the knight excelled had swept infantry from the field almost a thousand years before. Moreover, the development of infantry was further hindered by the nature of the social order that regarded it as the height of dangerous idiocy to arm the peasantry. The last time Europe had witnessed a disciplined infantry force was under Rome.
The start of the Hundred Years War saw the supremacy of the mounted knight remain unchallenged. By the time this series of dynastic wars ended, new military forms had emerged which signaled the beginning of the end of that supremacy.
It was a high privilege and a distinct honor to be part of a military order.
They always were generous with their enemies.
Respectful toward women.
Cultural Characteristics:
After the decline of the Roman Empire, military orders were in charge of some specific belief.
The main purpose of military orders in the Middle Age was propagating and defending the Catholic faith.
Military orders were Catholic orders of knighthood that were founded against Muslims invasions.
Important Characters:
Military religious orders were the main characteristic combination of military and religious life with the discipline and training necessary for the martial in combat but also the theological, life without luxuries and strengthening their Christian faith. Some of these orders also attended to the sick and poor.
Institutions were shaped mainly by men but the nuns could also join a convent of the order. The orders were governed by the Master was the
highest authority of the order, with an almost absolute power, both in the military, as in politics or religion.
The Master was chosen by the council, composed of thirteen monks, where the name derives from Thirteen.
The teacher was responsible for life and his death hirteen, called by the couple prior to the order, choose the new. The army did the teacher, followed by higher commander.
The outstanding figure of the second lieutenant was at first, but in the Middle Ages disappears.
The command's strengths lay in the hands of the leader or a governor.
Military and religious orders had possessions and members throughout Western Europe. The military and religious orders were important transmitters of social innovations, cultural and techniques, such as banking infrastructure implemented by the Templars.
Some of the Christian military orders, including the Templars, their origin were certain models such as the Islamic Shiite sect of Hashshashin.
During the Middle Ages, there were military orders indigenous throughout Europe while sharing many similarities also had its own characteristics, due to circumstances marked by the confrontation between Muslims and Christians. Spain in the initiation and expansion of these orders was due to progress known as the Christian reconquest.
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