The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges Into History Again.Start with nine very determined knights and a couple of sacred oaths. Add a jealous and vindictive king, a puppet pope, a mysterious wagon train, and a medieval “celebrity roast,” and you get the amazing -and sometimes bizarre- story of the warrior-monks known as the Knights Templar.At the end of the First Crusade (1095-1099), the Christian armies of Europe had succeeded in wresting control of th...