A Question on the Knights Templar

Submitted by David S. Levine (United States), Oct 14, 2007 at 23:29

Am I wrong or did the Knights Templar wind up in Prussia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and fight a war against Alexander Nevsky? Are they not the Order depicted in the Serge Eisenstein film? And did they not turn Lutheran?

David S. Levine

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