The Templars and their Sources

Karl Borchardt is a Senior Researcher at Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Munich, and Assistant Professor of Medieval History at Universitaet Wuerzburg. He has published numerous articles and edited volumes on the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar including Comptes de la commanderie de l'Hopital de Manosque pour les annees 1283 a 1290 (2015 with D. Carraz and A. Venturini), Documents concerning Cyprus from the Hospital's Rhodian Archives: 1409-1459 (2011 with A. Luttrell and E. Schoeffer) and The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe (2007 with H. Nicholson and N. Jaspert).

Karoline Doering is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich on the networks of the military orders at the papal curia in the thirteenth century. Her PhD was entitled Tuerkenkrieg und Medienwandel im 15. Jahrhundert (2013), and she has recently finished another monograph on fictitious correspondences between Ottoman sultans and Christian princes from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Philippe Josserand is a Senior Researcher in medieval history at the Universite de Nantes. He has published various studies on the Iberian Templars and other Spanish brethren such as Eglise et pouvoir dans la peninsule Iberique. Les ordres militaires dans le royaume de Castille (1252-1369) (2004), and co-edited the reference work Prier et combattre. Dictionnaire europeen des ordres militaires au Moyen Age (2009) and Elites et ordres militaires au Moyen Age. Rencontre autour d'Alain Demurger (2015).

Helen J. Nicholson is Professor of Medieval History at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. Her publications on the Templars include The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles (2011), The Debate on the Trial of the Templars(1307-1314) (2010 with J. Burgtorf and P.F. Crawford) and The Kn