Who were the crusaders, the knights templar, freemasons and the illuminati?

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AlexanderBrunnrgaard · Accepted Answer

Separate entities for one thing.
Crusaders: All the gathered Christian forces of European kingdoms who embarked on campaigns in the Holy Land. Including the first unofficial, "peoples crusade", which only comprised conscripts, farmers and other assorted civilians.
Knights Templar: Began with the formation of the Order by 5 knights to protect pilgrims on their journeys to Jerusalem. Quickly grew in organization, men and funds into becoming the foremost military order of the crusades, famous for defeating Salah-Al-Din's advancing army at the Battle of Mount Gisard, and many other victories. Innovated the first modern banking system in Europe and grew immensely wealthy due to countless donations. Became the most powerful organization of the High Medieval Age invested in not just military but science, medicine and philosophy. Betrayed by an envious and threatened King Philip II of France and his accomplice, Pope Clement, at the 13 of September, 1307, when their headquarters in Paris was raided and a mass arrest of high ranking Templars ensued following long and continuous allegations of conspiracy and treason made against the order, and the Grandmaster, Jaques De Molay burnt at the stake a few years later along with his right hand man Charney after having denied the allegations for a few years, then consigning to forced admissions by royal agents.
Freemasons: An expanded upon order which originated as the collaboration of stonemasons and their guilds in the 14th century. Highly secretive and ceremonial in modern days, emphasizing Christendom, good works and charity to poor and science as virtues of their members.
Illuminati: A conspiracy theory of a,, "behind the scenes", all powerful organization pulling at the strings of every major events. Sometimes considered, when theorized as real, as archenemies of religion and pursuers of an atheist-based scientism.

someginger · Accepted Answer

Ok not going into the conspiracy side of things but a lot of that stuff comes from the crusades which were a series of battles between Catholics and Muslims to take back lands that the Muslims had taken in there own crusade to convert Christians and then Catholics fought back and took the holy lands, am not an expert on that bit of history but I think that's the basic grist of it

alice55 · Accepted Answer

To what I remember crusaders were Christian that go in others countries to convert them (they wanted others people to become Christian like them). A lot of the crusader came to the Holy Land (Jerusalem). They wanted to take it back and make it full Christian again.

Knight templar are Christian knight from the middle age, that's a religious and military order. They protected the religious people who came to the holy land and frighted to keep the holy land Christian. They stopped existing when they lost the Holy land (even though there's lots of "legend" that stay they still existed and they're rumored to have lots of treasure and be rich). Everything was lost when they stopped being in action.

Illuminati isn't proved to be existing and is only a rumor that say that the most richer people of the world control the world and everything that happen (be it civil war to revolution) since many generations.
There's lots os others rumor about them but nothing is proved and there's no clue that they really exist or anything.

freemasons for this I honestly don't know, I know that they exist (someone in my family is part of it according to my parents) and I heard about how they're all part of the same club (a club that exist in all most prestigious university, kind of like a fraternity). It exist since around 1700 and is said to be a part of the French revolution. They're a philosophical "order" and most of them seem to be "outside of the world" not being or thinking like others people. They think really different from the average person.
They have ritual and they're bound by secret to protect each others no matter what they do.

juliaanita · Accepted Answer

there is not enough space on this site to answer that question, neither enough imagination in you head to fill with all of the conspiracy theories one could concoct out of thin air.

Historylover18 · Answer

Crusaders: European knights who fought to take the Holy Land from the Saracens

Templars: Originally an elite group of Crussders who lived in poverty and were to protect Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land before being burned at the stake by the French King

Freemasons: a rather secretive fraternity of theists who gather in lodges and hold meetings.

Illuminati: a presently defunct group of Enlightenment era thinkers started in Bavaria who seemed to oppose the order of the 18th century.

Waffles731 · Answer

Crusaders were a bunch of knights who at various times invaded the Middle East and there were others who massacred pagans in Europe.
The Knights Templar were a bunch of knights who were also bankers who bankrolled the crusades. Also they have a masonic order named after them which has zero to do with the actual knights templar.
The Freemasons are essentially a club of men who gather round, have meetings, host activities for Masons and their family and friends, and do a bunch of charity work.
The Illuminati were a bunch of Bavarians who complained that they were essentially too cheap to be Freemasons so they made their own club that completely died out in the early 19th century and now crazy dudes complain that this Bavarian club formed in the 18th century and made defunct in the 19th, made up of a bunch of people who were both into enlightenment philosophy and cheapskates, somehow rules the world

Smoothing · Answer

The Illuminati started in Germany with activities and branches in Rome, whilst the freemason started in Scotland. The Knights Templar was started in Jerusalem. The crusaders where the Knights Templar.

100lbguy · Answer

Crusaders, bunch of fuckers that the othodox Christians called for help but ironically got killed by them xD

PrincessGrail · Answer

A very complicated question

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