Knights Templars in Slovenia. Contribution to Solving Some Questions Concerning the History of Prekmurje, Bela Krajina and Ljubljana

Abstract

Knowledge so far existing about Knights Templars in Slovenian ethnic territory hasn't been dealt with systematically up till now. As there are no authentic sources, proving the existence of this order, but only later records, the author tries to find out the moments and connections, which could have brought Templars to our regions, by analysing historical conditions in the 12th and 13th century. He touches polemically some questions of medieval history of Prekmurje, Bela krajina and Ljubljana city. Due to lack of sources the treatise can't offer any essential conclusions, however, the author hypothesizes and opens some new problems. Thus this treatise is not a specialist study on Knights Templars, but a polemic contribution to Slovene medieval science.