Editing Knights Templar (section)

==== Neo-Templarism ====
{{Main articles|Neo-Templarism}}

[[Neo-Templarism]] is a term used to describe movements that claim to be direct continuations of the original Templars. The Templar degree system in Freemasonry built off an idea that Templars had embedded themselves within Freemasonry; however, some Freemasons believed the Templar degrees were not subordinate to masonry and were their own system. This culminated in 1805, when [[Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat]], a physician who refused to acknowledge the authority of the Catholic Church, created a revivalist Templar movement, claiming he had discovered a document that revealed an unbroken history of Templar grand masters to the present day. Fabré-Palaprat declared himself the grand master of his revivalist order. This began a long series of revival orders involving various schisms, which Fabré-Palaprat is usually regarded as the originator of; Fabré-Palaprat's organization eventually evolved into the [[Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem]]. The idea that these orders have legitimate descent from the Templars has been criticized by scholars of Templar history as dubious and tied to false claims.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Introvigne |first=Massimo |author-link=Massimo Introvigne |title=The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death |title-link=The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death |publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7546-5285-4 |editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=James R. |editor-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |series=Controversial New Religions |location=Aldershot |pages=19–23 |language=en |chapter=Ordeal by Fire: The Tragedy of the Solar Temple}}</ref><ref name="Napier2011">{{Cite book |last=Napier |first=Gordon |title=A to Z of the Knights Templar: A Guide to Their History and Legacy |publisher=History Press |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-7524-7362-8 |page=424}}</ref>