{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Knights Templar",
  "years": "1119–1312",
  "id": "templar",
  "index": "e/knights-templar",
  "title": "Beauseant of the Knights Templar",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "black",
      "hex": "#000000",
      "note": "The upper field — mercy to Christians."
    },
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "The lower field — purity."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#cc0000",
      "note": "The cross pattée — martyrdom."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Poor Knights of the Temple (1119–1312) were the first major Christian military order, founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land after the First Crusade\n - **Construction:** the **Beauseant** — a bipartite banner with black above white — overlaid in some depictions with a red cross pattée\n - The Beauseant was the Templars' war standard, reportedly carried into battle with strict rules: knights were forbidden from retreating while it still flew",
  "flag": "empires/templar.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Knights Templar",
    "officialName": "Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- The name 'Beauseant' comes from Old French, meaning 'piebald' or 'two-coloured'\n - At their height the Templars ran a proto-banking network across Europe, pioneering letters of credit for pilgrims\n - Suppressed in 1312 by Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V; Grand Master Jacques de Molay burned at the stake 1314",
  "_name": "Knights Templar",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "templar"
}