Templar Tabard

Ref: Lnc_2081/T

Tabard decorated with a cross pattee called the Temple

In the context of holy war launched by Pope Urban II in 1095, the knight Hugues de Payens of Champagne Count organized in 1118, the militia of the Poor Knights of Christ to serve the canons of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

January 13, 1129, at the opening of the Council of Troyes by Pope Honorius II becomes the militia and military order of monks who took the name of Order of the Temple which Hugues de Payens was the first master. The rule of the religious and military order is written by St. Bernard and approved by the council. Throughout the XIIth and XIIIth century this order strove to support and the protection of pilgrims to Jerusalem

The tabar or tabard is a kind of surcoat that we took on over the armor in medieval times. Once the arms are represented, we talk more frequently to coat of arms

The first Tabards are tunics painted or formed by an assembly of plates of a simple form cloth. These are tubular garments, often devoid of fish. They are doing so over the chainmail

Over the centuries, the coat will be refined to gradually become a very valuable object. The very form of the garment changed: it opens on the sides, to be affixed to the armor increasingly rigid and equip itself with sleeves

Composition: 100.% Cotton - One size

Presented on the fourth picture with the helmet referenced fnt_ch16

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