Tag Archives: Middle Ages
Hohenzollern Dynasty
Leprosy in Middle Ages
Templars on trial

The Order of the Temple was a religious-military institution founded by a group of warriors in Jerusalem in the decades following the First Crusade of 1097-99. The group first received royal and church approval in 1120, and papal authorisation in January 1129. They protected Christian pilgrims on the roads to the pilgrimage sites around Jerusalem and also helped to defend the territories that the First Crusade had conquered.
Serbian Nemanjic Dynasty

The Nemanjić (pronounced [nɛ̌maɲitɕ], Serbian: pl. Немањићи, Nemanjići) was the most important dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages, and one of the most important in Southeastern Europe. The royal house produced eleven Serbian monarchs between 1166 and 1371. It’s progenitor was Stephen Nemanja, who descended from a cadet line of the Vukanović dynasty (1101–1166).