Templar-cross and other symbols

[Huck]

I search for Templar symbols ... only early, pre 1314 pictures are interesting.

Of special interest is the cross, which in "modern views" of templars is a "red cross"

http://www.knighttemplar.org/Templar Supplicant.jpg

... and here not. The picture is of the Westminster Psalter (ca. 1250).

The purpur-export-city is in the region, where the crusaders had their aim. Did the Templars take a "red cross" cause they had access to purpur? Had the usual European painter of medieval times a red colour? Or was it "very expensive"?

 

[srgnosis]

I'm afraid I don't know much about the Templar Cross, as it how it was made or worn.

I do know, in respect to symbolism, that the Templar Churches were Round rather than shaped like a Cross. I know the circle had some specific symbolic meanings for them, but don't remember at the moment what they were.

 

[Huck]

I'm afraid I don't know much about the Templar Cross, as it how it was made or worn.

I do know, in respect to symbolism, that the Templar Churches were Round rather than shaped like a Cross. I know the circle had some specific symbolic meanings for them, but don't remember at the moment what they were.

Well, it seems, that the typical templar cross might occaionally be a little rounded at its legs - at least its lines are on the edge broader than in its middle.

 

[srgnosis]

Resources

About the only book I've read on the subject is "Dungeon, Fire, and Sword" by John J. Robinson. No pictures (or perhaps few pictures), but a really good history of the Templars and the Crusades.

It is an interesting subject.

 

[Huck]

About the only book I've read on the subject is "Dungeon, Fire, and Sword" by John J. Robinson. No pictures (or perhaps few pictures), but a really good history of the Templars and the Crusades.

It is an interesting subject.

... likely true ... but we search for an answer, if the templar cross had a specific outfit and still would have been recognized as "templar cross" at the time of mid 15th century.

Just an iconographical question.

 

[Ross G Caldwell]

... likely true ... but we search for an answer, if the templar cross had a specific outfit and still would have been recognized as "templar cross" at the time of mid 15th century.

Just an iconographical question.

Here's a page that shows several varieties of crosses used by the Templars -
http://www.templiers.net/symbolique/croix.php

About the only consistency is that they are all equal-armed.