Editing Knights Templar (section)

==== Order of Christ ====
{{Main|Order of Christ (Portugal)}}
{{Further|History of the Order of Christ}}
Following the dissolution of the Knights Templar, the Order of Christ was erected in 1319 and absorbed many of the Knights Templar into its ranks, along with Knights Templar properties in Portugal.<ref name="Ralls2007" /><ref name="Gourdin1855" /> Its headquarters became a castle in Tomar, a former Knights Templar castle.<ref name="Ralls2007" /> 

The [[Order of Christ (Portugal)|Military Order of Christ]] consider themselves the successors of the former Knights Templar. After the Templars were abolished on 22 March 1312,<ref name="Ferguson2011">{{cite book |author=Robert Ferguson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDI7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA39 |title=The Knights Templar and Scotland |date= 2011 |publisher=History Press Limited |isbn=978-0-7524-6977-5 |page=39}}</ref><ref name="BurgtorfCrawford2013" /> the Order of Christ was founded in 1319<ref name="FitzsimonsBécarud1969">{{Cite book |last1=Matthew Anthony Fitzsimons |url=https://archive.org/details/catholicchurchto00fitz |title=The Catholic Church today: Western Europe |last2=Jean Bécarud |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |year=1969 |page=[https://archive.org/details/catholicchurchto00fitz/page/159 159] |author1-link=Matthew Anthony Fitzsimons |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="Nicholson2004" /> under the protection of the Portuguese king [[Denis of Portugal|Denis]], who refused to persecute the former knights. Denis revived the Templars of [[Tomar]] as the Order of Christ, grateful for their aid during the ''[[Reconquista]]'' and in the reconstruction of Portugal after the wars. Denis negotiated with Clement's successor [[Pope John XXII|John XXII]] for recognition of the new order and its right to inherit Templar assets and property. This was granted in the papal bull ''Ad ea ex quibus'' of 14 March 1319.<ref name=":0">F. A. Dutra, "Dinis, King of Portugal", in ''Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia'' (Routledge, 2003), p. 285.</ref> The Portuguese brought the Order of Christ with them to Kongo and Brazil, where the Order of Christ continues to be awarded; the Vatican additionally has awarded the [[Supreme Order of Christ]].<ref name="Gates2012">{{cite book |last1=Akyeampong |first1=Emmanuel Kwaku |last2=Gates |first2=Henry Louis Gates |title=Dictionary of African Biography |date=2012 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-538207-5 |page=187 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="BostoenBrinkman2018">{{cite book |last1=Bostoen |first1=Koen |last2=Brinkman |first2=Inge |title=The Kongo Kingdom: The Origins, Dynamics and Cosmopolitan Culture of an African Polity |date= 2018 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-108-47418-4 |pages=237–238 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Ragnau1913">{{cite book |last1=Ragnau |first1=Edmond Hugues de |title=The Vatican: The Center of Government of the Catholic World |date=1913 |publisher=[[D. Appleton & Company]] |page=38 |language=en}}</ref>