BIDEAK

Published by DEIA, April 28, 2011

KEPA JUNKERA

EUNANTE, situated in Navarre, is a precious jewel consider of the

Knights of Templars in the route to the Sepulture of St. James.

It seems so curious that so many times the path in which we have already
traveled from in which today surround us has come to us along time ago.
A bill of exchange of those that we use to carry payments and cashing
payments has a close connection, to my surprise with the Middle Ages and
with a very famous chivalric order.

In the year 1119, nine of French Knights carried out vows of poverty,
obedience and chastity. They were lodged in the stables of King Balduino
II of Jerusalem that he constructed over the ruins of the Temple of
Solomon. They were The Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon,
otherwise called Templars, half monk, half soldier. Their mission was
preserving the many pilgrims of the holy places. And that is where this
order became a type of bank of pilgrims that traveled to meet with the
Holy Sepulcher. They needed to take a lot of money and an enormous
infrastructure if they wanted to carry out their journey the pilgrims, in
which is why The Templers signed for them a series of bills for which they
could exchange for lodge, food etc. in each Templar commission of the
road. In return the Templars calculated by means of the different
documents the costs and they charged them with the had proven to have
from their departure staying with all of the money, the lands and houses
if the pilgrim was perishing in the company. That way, in 2 centuries of
existence the Templars treasured such an incredible wealth that the same
king of France and the Pope of the epoch, finished with their Order’s
adventure due to conflicting interests. The Knights, war-like monks and
swords flow in a formulate banking system that even today we continue
working with, demonstrating the multiple existing springs in the human
essence.
What a strange existing surprise the relationship between the bill of
exchange and The Knights of Templar and at the same time how
fascinating to think all what’s is still to know and to discover.
C’est the vie!

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