The Templar Knight

The Templar Knight
Jan Guillou

The second volume of the crusades trilogy from bestelling Swedish author Jan Guillou.THE KNIGHT TEMPLAR follows Arn's adventures in the Holy Land, where he discovers that the infidel Saracens aren’t as brutish and uncivilised as he had been led to believe, and that in fact there is another, darker side to the teaching of the Cistercians.

The Templar Knight

The Crusades Trilogy

Jan Guillou

Translated by Steven T. Murray

‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’ Jacula Prudentum, 1651, no. 170

In the name of God, most benevolent, ever-merciful.

‘God is great in His glory, Who took His votary in the night to a wide and open land from the Sacred Mosque to the most distant Mosque whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him Our sign; Verily He is all-hearing and all-seeing.’

The Holy Koran, Sura 17, Verse 1

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#udb89a896-5aa2-55a3-b32d-06f933837ddb)

Title Page (#ub9a98fa4-ae19-5fcb-8184-29b0b8af6ab8)

Dedication (#u451f0c4c-bdb7-59f2-88d5-c75544e62bab)

Epigraph (#u41187725-a63a-5882-8d12-637b8937ed40)

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS (#ud9714986-5530-51ca-b14f-ea54071e70c3)

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About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS (#ulink_6dc33c48-f9bc-51bd-a906-83e776aaa3a4)

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

Al Ghouti - Arn de Gothia

Arman de Gascogne, his sergeant

Arnoldo de Torroja, Master of Jerusalem

Odo de Saint Armand, Grand Master

Siegfried de Turenne

Harald Øysteinsson

Grand Master Roger des Moulins

CHRISTIANS

Count Raymond III de Tripoli

Reynald de Châtillon

Gérard de Ridefort

King Baldwin IV

Baldwin d’Ibelin, later Baldwin V

Guy de Lusignan, later King Guy

Agnes de Courtenay

Father Louis

Heraclius

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