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What is the significance of the Knights Templar in Freemasonry?
The historical connection between Freemasonry and the Knights Templar rests largely on eighteenth-century origin theories and early lodge practice. Chevalier Ramsay initially proposed that Masonry was revived during the Crusades, a notion expanded by the Rite of Strict Observance into the legend that fleeing Templars under Pierre d'Aumont preserved their Order by disguising themselves as operative Masons in Scotland. Historically, Scottish lodges such as Stirling, Perth, Aberdeen, and Mother Kilwinning conferred Templar degrees within their bodies during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Similar conferrals occurred in English lodges at Plymouth, Bristol, Bath, and York.
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What is the connection between the Templars and the Royal Arch degree in Freemasonry?
The earliest known recorded reference to a Masonic Knight Templar, dated August 28, 1769, appears in the minute book of St. Andrew's Royal Arch Chapter in Boston, where the degrees of Excellent, Super-Excellent, Royal Arch, and Knight Templar were conferred together under the collective title of the four degrees of a Royal Arch Mason. Elsewhere, body charters were frequently used to confer both degrees alongside others. In 1782, the High Knights Templars of Ireland, Kilwinning Lodge in Dublin, utilized a Scottish Craft warrant to confer the Royal Arch, Knight Templar, and Rose Croix degrees.
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