NEW EVIDENCE of Templar Survival | Buried: Knights Templar & the Holy Grail (S1, E3) | History

the knights templar the crusades most feared and mysterious  warriors rumored to possess god-given relics   like the ark of the covenant and the holy  grail with armies and strongholds spanning   three continents they were richer than kings and  popes and that's exactly who brought them down   in 1307 the templars were hunted to  extinction and vanished or did they two investigators are pressure testing a  theory that the templars survived past 1307   and went on to form secret societies that still  exist today they would have never given up ever   that's how soldiers work garth baldwin is an  archaeologist who has conducted excavations on   battlefields around the world mikey k spent  years hunting terrorists in the middle east   with the british military should we expect that  they just put down their weapons and capitulated   that doesn't make sense to me this is  about the templars going underground   together they'll investigate this ancient  mystery what happened to the knights templar history says that the knights templar were  exterminated from the face of the earth   in 1307 but the team believes the order may  have survived by using advanced military   tactics they honed throughout their early reign  previously in the investigation wait what is this   mikey and garth uncovered evidence of covert  escape routes used by the templars during key   battles in jerusalem and okra by using hidden  tunnels this is their secret passage to the port   a global network of safe houses and covert  operations oh my god if they were trying to bring   something in perfect space the templars could have  escaped destruction with powerful relics in tow after studying 200 years of the order's survival  tactics the team will investigate the most crucial   moment in templar history the night's alleged  final destruction launched by the king of france   in october 1307. mikey and garth returned  to consult world-renowned templar expert   dan jones to understand the events that  led up to the templars moment of reckoning in 1307 things start to go seriously wrong for the  order of the temple just look at the losses that   have been stacked up in a really short period  of time although the templars still controlled   hundreds of castles and had standing armies across  europe they had lost the holy land their purpose   and mission they were supposed to be defending the  holy land and when the holy lands lost people are   starting to say hey it was on their watch and  the optics are bad you've lost the holy land   and yet all over the west you have these extremely  wealthy templar houses making a lot of money and   people would be saying that they were corrupt  with their only allegiance to god and the pulp   the knights unchecked power and enormous  wealth became a threat to the kings of europe so the templars support base started to wane   their donation base started to fall  away friends are becoming enemies now more than ever the templars would need  to safeguard the wealth and relics that some   believe were the source of their power after the  fall of their great fortresses in the holy land   the templar's most secure stronghold was their  castle in paris site of their central treasury   with 165 foot towers massive walls and a vault  rumored to hold billions in gold and silver it   was the ideal place to protect sacred relics many  have theorized this fortress housed the holy grail   paris had always been a safe sanctuary  to the templars the french kings were   some of their biggest supporters during the  holy wars but that was all about to change   king philip of france is in dire need of money  and wealth to prop up a failing french economy   and he finds the solution in the templars king  phillip the man who would bring the templars down   had a simple plan arrest the  knights and seize their money do they see this coming do you think there's  certainly a window for tip-off which is between   the 14th of september 1307 which is when the  orders went out to the king's officials who   were supposed to be acting on them and the 13th of  october when those orders were opened at dawn and   people came and knocked on the door so there were  people who knew something was up and suddenly was   coming in september of 1307 the king and his men  drafted up orders to have every templar in france   arrested in one month's time if the templars  learned of this plan it would have given them   30 days head start a month to save everything  they could including their treasure and relics   according to the history books this treasure has  never been found what happened to all the wealth   that was in the paris temple at that time is not  clear it didn't leave a trace you can't follow the   the path of the money through this  story it just sort of punishes where did the wealth go we know it's  not in paris it had to go somewhere   any action the templars would have  taken would have absolutely been covert   if you're a sharp military outfit it's all  about survival you always have contingency   plans if the templars did manage to smuggle out  their treasures and relics it would have been a   crucial first step to rebuild and evolve into a  new order like the freemasons or the illuminati so could they have done it a big question is where  are you going to go what is going to provide you   with an element of safety of security you  have very strong historical links between   north eastern france and the templars that's  where networks of families had always provided   personnel donations there's lots of template  properties they're going to go to a place   where they're familiar and where they have  allies and that place was the champagne region   located 150 miles southeast of paris the champaign  region is the birthplace of the first nine   templars those deep roots could have made  champagne ground zero for an operation to save   templar treasure and relics from the grasp of the  french king there's extensive facilities and farms   and people that they can trust because they're  at home if someone comes into the community that   isn't known people know about it absolutely  100 everything's gone underground and that's   going to make the investigation harder but i think  that's that's now the mindset that we have to have right up until the end of 1307 the templars  controlled 12 bases called commanderies in the   heart of champaign mikey and garth suspect  these commanderies could have been used as   hubs for smuggling the templars greatest  assets in the weeks leading up to the arrests   but today most of the commandaries lie in  ruins the team splits up to cover more ground mikey heads to the commandery dava lure  one of the last withstanding structures commanderies were a powerful part of the templar  war machine generating cash to fund the holy wars   turning a hefty profit on farm  goods like grapes wine and wool it's incredible it's a templar chapel that  has been in its original state approximately   it's from 1170 1170 1170 yeah historian francois  chile has been studying the templars in the region   for 20 years the community of templars  was very small it was only five or six   people and they had underneath 40 people working  for them in the critical month before the king's   men rounded up the templars carts rumbled  in and out of the commandery full of wool   and wine bottles an ideal cover to  conceal treasure concealing value goods   in normal trade routes that's something  that's been done throughout the centuries   hezbollah prolific at it the islamic state  so if you want to start interweaving carts of   wealth in between daily trade that would have been  something which would have been quite smart to do   and hard to detect the templars had used  similar escape tactics during the siege of akra   16 years earlier repurposing sea trade routes to  escape the city the importance of this place is   because during the trial he discovered that the  last templar that was arrested was arrested here   so very last templar arrested here yes if this was  a location where the templars would have come and   brought wealth it had to have somewhere where you  could conceal hide somewhere that was subterranean   12 feet below the templar sleeping quarters of the  commandery's chapel an ancient wine cellar could   hold clues to the templar's smuggling operation  this is from the temple period and it's the old   caves whoa what's that all right what's this wow  stones naturally uh fell and opened again on all   the space that was existing but then it gets to a  point where this is literally this this rock here   is is subterranean rock that's just been hammered  through baskin yeah by the part there's no   door there was never a door here suggesting this  could have been a false wall that collapsed after   centuries i'm looking at where the entrance  was meant that that was really well concealed wow there's columns that are holding the place   cause this has been chipped away here all right  what is above us there's nothing that has been   built above is there any records or any archives  as to what this space was used for exploring uh what it was used for he's not quite  sure in terms of a covert operation   that to me is a huge alarm bell what about  if the templars wanted to conceal something francois thinks that it has been used as a hiding  space the team is investigating a possible covert   operation in 1307 to save their treasure in the  final weeks before king philip had them arrested champagne birthplace of the founding templars twelve feet below the templar commandery davalur  mikey kay explores a newly discovered chamber that   could be evidence of a templar smuggling network  this place was really well concealed perfect place   to keep something that you don't want other  people to find coins wealth maybe even relics in september of 1307 the templars may  have been tipped off that the king of   france planned to arrest them and raid  their paris vault in one month's time   but there's no evidence the king  ever got his hands on their riches   with the clock ticking the templars may have  used hidden underground caches like this   to smuggle their treasure and holy relics to  safety these guys were military guys they just   they knew how to exploit anything and  tunnels that was what they're all about the templars would use this in case they were  compromised that was really well concealed some   of the treasure might have been bought and the  reason i say some is because after 200 years some   plants had accumulated a serious amount of wealth  all records of the templar's treasure vanished but   based on the dimensions of the paris temple some  have theorized they had hundreds of tons enough to   fill dozens of modern day semi trucks yes this  is a perfect place to bring wealth it wouldn't   have been able to house the amount of wealth that  the templars had coming out of paris but there   were 11 more templar commanderies in the region  could they have formed a network of hiding places   22 miles away near the regional capital  of tua garth searches another possible   location the templars could hide their  fortune of silver gold and holy relics   we're heading to see the first commandary of hugh  de paul who was the original templar knight and   first grand master in 1998 a stash of silver coins  was unearthed at the templar commandery japan is   this physical evidence the templars were smuggling  riches through champagne today nothing is left   standing of this former templar base garth meets  up with historian tiari lawa to survey the ruins they have an excavations there from  the state they located some foundations so here was a chapel and several barns  farming drove the medieval economy   the fertile champagne region was the crown  jewel of the templars financial empire   making the nearby town of tua where the  goods were traded in silver and gold   the wall street of medieval europe today the  way to measure gold is still the 12 ounce the   templars owned an enormous property portfolio that  created a vast amount of money to fund the crusade   the templars weren't just fighting men they were  also at support staff accountants estate managers   you could join the templars and just basically  run a farm templar farm bosses in the champaign   region would have known every inch of the roads  and warehouses the templars used to move their   products if the templars are needing to move  relics or even just treasure injecting a relic   into a shipment and then putting extra mint on  it is not going to seem unusual right around   here that treasure was found wait uh someone  came and stored or hid the treasure within the   grounds of the the camaraderie so right here  where we stand following the archaeological   750 coins some of them silver the coins were found  by an amateur treasure hunter in an unlikely place   buried in the courtyard outside the building   if the templars had a covert smuggling network  in place why would they leave it behind in their   backyard in 1307 50 horseback riders came here  and arrested the templars that were here in 139 they broke down the door and this we know is if it was the templars maybe  it's the last minute when   they knew they were going to be arrested they  were trying to stash money to hide their assets   and there was no way out so maybe they had  no choice but to just bury it in the ground garth investigates the 750 coins  found buried at the commandry depan   it's one of the largest medieval  coin hordes ever found in france is this evidence of the missing templar treasure  from their paris vault wow it's just unreal garth baldwin examines a cache of 750 coins found  buried at a templar base in the champaign region   the level of detail is amazing if the coins  were in use during king phillips reign   they could be remnants of the smuggling operation king of france these kinds of coins were used by  templars at the time to trade and to market the   goods that they produced it's the type of currency  that was the most available at that time in france i'm looking at them underneath  the microscope and it's like   you can see the ring from the stamp  on them boom it's mid-1200s to 1290. these coins are in circulation when  the templars knew they were going to be   arrested it's just unreal 750 coins would have been just  a tiny fraction of the templars   massive treasure the fact that these coins were  buried suggest a hasty response to a threat   is this a sign of a final act of  desperation or could the small   parcel of coins be a window into a larger  templar strategy to save their riches we know how cunning the templates are yeah we know  how much the templates have the temples had a lot   of wealth you add all that together and you come  to the conclusion i think that what we're seeing   in the champaign region would have likely been  replicated all over france diversifying taking   their wealth and splitting it into 100 500 pieces  putting it in places where they know the networks   that would have been a pretty excellent strategy  given the threat that the templars were facing   the templars were trained to operate  in small special forces style units   by splitting treasure among small teams called  cells and sending them to diverse locations if   one was caught the rest would be uncompromised the  same tactics were used by the french resistance to   smuggle guns and contraband in world war  ii going underground into various cells   if i'm the templars that's exactly the  type of approach that i'd be taking   the templars had allies all over france in 1307  giving them many options for cells to operate   but there are no reliable records indicating  other locations where treasure may have gone one   prominent legend claims some was hidden beneath  the town of jizour 50 miles northwest of paris chisore lines up perfectly with a  suspected templar smuggling tactic   it lies on one of medieval  france's busiest trade routes   lots of merchants and lots of travelers have been  using that road it had been great cover to blend   into the masses whereas if you're by yourself on  the road somewhere and the king's out looking for   people you get picked off for centuries smugglers  have done the same thing legends of templar   riches hidden in jizor have attracted treasure  hunters for centuries a groundskeeper named roger   lemois even claimed to have glimpsed a secret  templar stash beneath the town's castle in 1946   but numerous excavations including one by  the french military have come up empty-handed treasure hidden under the castle itself is  unlikely in 1307 it belonged to the templars   argenman francis king philip iv like everywhere  in france before the arrests the eyes of the   king's men would be watching but the templars  could have used a familiar tactic to avoid detection below the streets of the  town lie underground medieval tunnels   the team meets up with local  historian francois levay   basement renovations in a local home  revealed this subterranean passage in 1992 we're about 200 yards on foot  from the entrance of the castle   a subterranean operation close to the king's  castle would have been risky but the templars   may have found allies in the locals who resented  the king for heavy taxes these locals could have   provided the templars with cover i mean when  the french people don't like government don't   like an invading force the french have a  reputation for forming a resistance yeah   really the templars were weren't stupid  they were smart men that they would use   bases in the vicinity such as sellers to  hide the treasure now that's a possibility   how far down does this go this is about five  meters below the ground yes if you want to follow the keystones and everything  else the construction you can   you could definitely link to templar or  crusade these barrel vaulted arches match   the design of many templar escape tunnels in  akra their former capital in the holy land he says behind your head  what do you make of that boy would it have been one person's house would  it include these or was it the neighborhood   the whole neighborhood of sellers themselves   any way that these could be connected he believed  so for the simple reason that in 1946 when they   rebuilt the town after the bombings of the war  they found underground crossroads of tunnels   there was a real significant network of  tunnels found just 50 meters outside of the   castle grounds literally right under the king's  nose in early october of 1307 these tunnels may   have provided safety for the templars but  all that would change on friday the 13th friday the 13th of october 1307 i don't think  anybody saw the scale of what they're about   to do to the templars coming i mean  this was genuinely like world shocking   stuff despite a possible tip-off a month earlier  the ultimate day of reckoning was crushing the   king of france deployed thousands of men across  the kingdom to round up every templar they could   coordinated through sealed instructions the raids  hit every templar house at precisely the same   moment for maximum surprise in just hours the most  powerful military order in the world was decimated   the knights who were caught endured months of  brutal torture templar leadership kind of assume   that they're going to be able to talk their  way out of this but they were outmaneuvered   and outdone just by the sheer  aggression of philips assault   france was the epicenter of the attack on the  knights but soon all of europe would follow suit   king philip strong-armed pope clement v to  take up the charges of heresy against the order   the pope issued broader arrest orders  and in the months and years that followed   templars were rounded up in every catholic kingdom the templars were charged  with heresy and corruption   under torture templars confessed to blasphemy  and idol worship during their initiation rights it's a witch hunt it's driven by black propaganda  it's medieval fake news the templars were put on   trial in many cases killed the saga dragged on for  years and wouldn't end until 1314 when the last   grand master jacques de molay was burned at the  stake the templars have existed for 200 years and   no one had stopped them the fall of jerusalem  hadn't stopped and the fall of akka hadn't   stopped them they had fought in some of the most  miserable losing causes in the whole history of   the crusades and they'd survived but what brought  them down was the betrayal of the king of france   a stab in the back but was it really the end of  the templars or did they survive like they had   done time and time before could they have escaped  the arrests of 1307 there were undoubtedly people   who escaped we have evidence on several escape  from france it's just we don't hear very much   from the ones that did get away because they got  away and it was it was not a bad idea to keep   keep their heads down out of more than 3 000  templars in france on the day of the arrests   only 600 are accounted for the rest vanished  without a trace possibly covering their tracks   with king philip's men on the hunt  nowhere in france would be safe   so where could they go and with little in the  written record how can they be tracked today   like the cia or mi6 one of the  ways in which an organization   can work effectively in the shadows or  underground is a secret means of communication   earlier in the investigation the team discovered  one potential form of covert communication   evidence the templars were using  coated symbols after their fall   coated carvings cover the walls of royston cave a  suspected hideout for fleeing templars post 1307 like the freemasons and other secretive groups  the templars used symbols the code has never   been fully cracked but it permeated every aspect  of their operations right down to their uniforms   one version of their iconic cross the cross of  eight beatitudes was rumored to hide mathematical   proportions the templars used to design their  symmetrical buildings could clues to the templars   escape plans be encoded somewhere in their  symbols what other secrets might they hide one of garth's contacts has a theory that  could be x marks the spot it's based on   the geographic location of strongholds drawing  lines between templar strongholds in spain reveals   the image of a templar cross so precise and  intricate it would take a computer to draw today   directly in the center lies a templar  monastery the hermitage of saint bartholomew this small and remote outpost is unusual  unlike most templar sites it has no   apparent military or economic function the  location is at the center of the cross yes   that's not completely out there i mean they're  a religious fanatic so i don't think it's   beyond the realms of possibility that they would  have applied some sort of religious symbol to   a geographic layout a map pointing to  neighboring spain is no surprise the   arrests there were slower to be carried out  giving the knights a brief window of safety   the spanish kingdoms didn't want to get  rid of the templars they needed them in   their wars against the muslim moors that had been  raging for centuries the templars held important   frontier castles they joined in campaigns of  conquest so there was a real debt of gratitude   owed to the templars in this region when  the templars are being attacked in france   there's much more reluctance in the kingdoms of  spain to join in a temporary safe haven in spain   is plausible the giant cross could be a clue to  its location when it comes to the templars we know   secret communication would have been absolutely  fundamental after 1307 when they went underground   they were very big on the symbols the most obvious  one being the cross and because of that spain   peaks my curiosity i think it's one of the best  leads that we've got created hundreds of years   before satellite or gps is this cross a fluke of  geography or a treasure map to templar secrets mikey and garth are testing the theory that  many knights found temporary safe haven in spain   after escaping torture and  execution in france in 1307   there is little in the written record of  the templars escape but they may have left   clues to their fate in elaborate symbols found  across europe here in spain a map connecting   templar strongholds reveals a templar cross  pointing to a remote monastery could this   x mark the spot of where surviving templars  escaped from france with their treasure and relics   the symbology leading us to the potential location  it's something that your your heart wants to go   with but your head is kind of like you know the  precautious one the building itself is small and   only lightly fortified seemingly offering  little protection to templars on the run   but a trained military eye reveals the site's  hidden potential this whole area is enclosed   this is a bunker oh yeah concealed deep in a  canyon in one of the least populated regions   of spain camouflage could have been the first  layer of strategic protection for the monastery the sheer walls of the canyon make  access for an attacking army difficult   and the only road in is guarded by the templar  castle of a mile away at the canyon's mouth   it's a perfect location a to put a castle b to  monitor and give early inw indicators and warnings   to any threat that might be approaching the  valley there's a lot of caves the high canyon   walls are riddled with dozens of caves ideal for  camouflaging templar defenders from a tactical   perspective you could put people all over the side  of that canyon you could put archers all over the   side of that canyon to devastating effect it would  be like the templar equivalent of having snipers   set up all over the place you're going to  have quite a few templars in this region   at that period in time because the arrests  haven't started there's a castle on the   way in which produces or gives you this  integrated defense network you've got this   huge huge natural feature this canyon a lot  of limestone a lot of places to hide stuff the caves in this valley range in size from small  pockets to 50-foot high caverns this is straight   out raiders of the lost ark providing many hiding  spaces as a final contingency if the site were   ever compromised the templars without doubt could  have have tunnels here whether they're naturally   formed because of the lifestone or whether  they have to smash tunnels themselves the   team has seen evidence of templars manipulating  limestone cave networks from the escape tunnels   in jerusalem to the covert sea caves in cyprus  to the secret hideaway below the streets in   royston england you made a fish go a long way  we've seen this time and time and time again   because they knew that that's how they could  protect whatever it was that they held dear a system of camouflage defenses could make  this a plausible hideout for fugitive templars   the theory that led the team here that the site's  location is marked by a perfectly formed cross   on a continental scale may point  to a deeper purpose no potential has written three books on  the templars in the region the mysteries like how could you could them  at the time have this knowledge could some   form of advanced technology have enabled  the templars to create a map like this during their time in the holy land the templars  were in contact with the assassins an islamic cult   said to safeguard secret ancient wisdom that had  been suppressed by mainstream islam and lost to   the wider world for centuries like the mathematics  that had been used to build the pyramids   a lot of people would argue that the crusades  are this moment of as well as great conflict of   great interchange the sharing of ideas between  east and west mathematics and science medicine   technology architecture you know the whole  sort of gamut of human intellectual development   during the templars time higher knowledge was  dangerous a threat to the authority of the church   in medieval times magic and science were  the same thing and to them if you knew   things you must have gotten it by some sort  of sorcery or magic and they said what you   were doing was witchcraft and that you should  be burned possession of forbidden knowledge   may have been one reason the pope turned  on the templars after the arrests in 1307   hundreds of brothers across europe admitted under  torture to worshiping an idol called baphomet but experts believe the hebrew  spelling of the word hides an   ancient encryption for the word wisdom could the templars have been  safeguarding ancient knowledge and does this monastery contain more secrets  that templars would have died to protect a coded map possibly created with forbidden  ancient knowledge led mikey and garth to a   remote templar monastery in spain that could  hold answers coded in its symbolic carvings so what is the symbolism behind that window  right there with the star and the hearts we start with a five-point start five big hearts  another five small ones right in the center of all   you can see the pentagon this five point start  was the seal solomon's seal solomon's seal has   always been considered the symbol of protection  their first temple was this temple of solomon   the templars adopted it the freemasons use  it even today according to medieval legend   solomon built his temple using his special seal  a pentagram that gave him supernatural powers   encoded within the pentagram  was also the golden ratio   a geometric pattern da vinci called divine  proportion that repeats itself in nature as it's   said to be the secret formula for everything from  the great pyramids to mona lisa to stock trading and all of that has some every  one of us has many nurses the heart is templar code for the holy grail  the same symbol the team found in royston cave   but this window is unique one of the only  known instances of the pentagram with 10 hearts   in a templar church the combination  representing knowledge with the grail   suggests a special significance to this monastery maybe the hermitage of st bartholomew is the  spiritual center of the templars in spain   not all the temporaries had the knowledge to  interpret those secrets or those symbolisms   only a few of them but this place was built for  those ones that was a sign for the masters of the   order those guys who had the the knowledge this is  pretty big because this for the first time we're   now starting to hear that there's a different  level of knowledge with inside the templar order   there's a hierarchy that the only few  people at the very top of the hierarchy   had that knowledge and that's big because if  you're trying to keep power then you keep it   within a specific number of people so it doesn't  get diluted key leadership had been arrested   post 1307 the leadership that were involved  may have been their secret security a secluded and secret refuge used by the templars  elite mirrors the mo of secret societies today   bohemian grove is an annual meeting of world  power players dating from 1878 to the present   who convened for a spiritual awakening in  the seclusion of california's redwood forest   while plotting the future of world affairs  ronald reagan and richard nixon both attended   before they became presidents many  attendees are also known freemasons   was this the site of secret  templar summit meetings   could an inner circle of templar elite have  plotted the future of the order here in 1307   a plan to continue on in secret with the power  of occult knowledge and sacred relics whatever   the answer this monastery wouldn't have been  safe for long the pope's vice was tightening   and soon every templar in the spanish  kingdoms would be rounded up and arrested   is no doubt in my mind the templars were  resilient the temples were tenacious the big   question is where would they have relocated  themselves in order to regenerate the order next on buried in portugal this is always the myth  of the holy grail they didn't get stomped out they   continued on they evolved portugal was born by  the wheel of the temples the port of the ground   and they're not going to stop it is a symbol of  the power templars 2.0 now going out and creating   new empires is there anything around here that  would suggest that the templars could have started   working in the shadows are there organizations  out there today that are direct descendants of the templars you

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