Novitiate and Instruction in the Military Orders during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Forey, A. J.

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“…The novice was a member of the Order on probation and the novitiate a period during which Templar recruits accustomed themselves with Templar life and customs, while the members of the convent examined them for their suitability as brothers. 105 For reasons which have never been fully investigated, but which seem to have to do with the Order's growing obligations in the East, the novitiate fell out of practice in the Temple in the late twelfth century. 106 This was fortunate and unfortunate for the Order at the same time.…”

Section: Donats and The Novitiatementioning

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“…105 For reasons which have never been fully investigated, but which seem to have to do with the Order's growing obligations in the East, the novitiate fell out of practice in the Temple in the late twelfth century. 106 This was fortunate and unfortunate for the Order at the same time. On the one hand, the demise of the novitiate made Templar recruits immediately available for military duty.…”

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Forms of lay association with the Order of the Temple

Schenk

2008

Journal of Medieval History

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The present study investigates the development of three concepts of lay association with the Order of the Temple that have hitherto often been considered as distinctive from each other but that are, in fact, in many ways interconnected: the confrater, the donatus and the miles ad terminum. Examining the motivation of lay men and women to associate with the Temple, as well as the various implications of the forms of association they chose, the study argues that at the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the constellation of the Order's confraternities underwent drastic changes and that these had been instigated by canon lawyers and formulated in the decrees of Lateran III and IV. As a response the donats, as a particular category of confratres, established themselves as the most prominent expression of lay association with the Temple. What is more, since the concept of the donat gained prominence when that of the Templar novice was in decline, it will also be argued that, for very different reasons, the concept of the Templar donat as well as that of the 'temporary knight' (miles ad terminum), which was as old as the Order itself, could eventually have been conceived and employed as two forms of novitiate in disguise, which helped attract the attention of laymen who would have otherwise been reluctant to profess fully into a military order.Over time, Templar commanderies, like most religious houses, gathered a following of lay men and women who, for spiritual or purely practical reasons, and very often for both, exposed themselves to Templar life without fully participating in it. These hangers-on were different from the Templar familiares, who as unfree serfs were bound to the Order by law, since their bonds with the Order

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Section: Donats and The Novitiatementioning

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Section: Donats and The Novitiatementioning

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Forms of lay association with the Order of the Temple

Schenk

2008

Journal of Medieval History

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“…Ils ne peuvent toutefois faire profession avant l'âge de porter les armes 40 . Par ailleurs, Alan Forey émet l'hypothèse qu'un noviciat était prévu dans la Règle à la fondation de l'Ordre mais qu'il ne put être appliqué dans la durée en raison de l'accroissement considérable de l'institution 41 .…”

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L’ordre du Temple en Orient : quelle représentation de la classe chevaleresque ?

Chevalier¹

2018

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Desertions and Transfers from Military Orders (Twelfth to Early-Fourteenth Centuries)

Forey¹

2005

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The taking of vows in a military order, as in other religious foundations, created a lifelong obligation. The phrasestabilitas loci, which is encountered in some documents relating to these orders, did not imply an undertaking to stay permanently in the same convent, but signified that those who had made their profession should remain in the same order for life. This requirement found expression especially in papal decrees, although orders' regulations give information about the punishment of apostates. As in other religious establishments, a transfer to another order provided the sole permitted exception, but this was allowed only under certain conditions.

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Novitiate and Instruction in the Military Orders during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

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Forms of lay association with the Order of the Temple

Forms of lay association with the Order of the Temple

L’ordre du Temple en Orient : quelle représentation de la classe chevaleresque ?

Desertions and Transfers from Military Orders (Twelfth to Early-Fourteenth Centuries)

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