Italy and the colonization of the Americas, The Knights of Malta, 1530 -1798 -- A blog, List of the last monarchs in the Americas, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hospitaller_colonization_of_the_Americas&oldid=1117348175, History of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 October 2022, at 06:56. [3] She was a daughter of Maol sa, Jarl of Orkney. [10] It is a title he is said to have inherited from his father William Sinclair in 1358 but it's more likely he accquired it much later in life. The Knights Templar was born and they were soon world-renowned for their courage. He took formal possession of the islands in the name of the Grand Master. A sinister plot founded on a web of lies. Your Privacy Rights There he negotiated the Treaty of Concordia, determining the boundary between the French and Dutch settlements that remains in place today. The original Knights Templar in the Holy Land was established in 1119 CE and served as an elite Catholic military order during the Crusades. Katherine Sinclair (1358-1430) married John Seton, 2nd Lord Seton and had issue. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 120, Burke's Landed Gentry 19th edition, vol 1- The Kingdom of Scotland, ed. It is not known when Henry Sinclair died. Last July he and his colleagues, who were all world class authorities in their respective fields, proclaimed during Copenhagens International Conference on the History of Cartography that the Vinland Map was real. John Sinclair, said to have married Ingeborg, a natural daughter of, Elizabeth Sinclair (b. The settlement on Saint Barthlemy suffered an attack by Carib people, and those who were not killed abandoned the island. Wolter then studied and copied the rune stone from the first geologic report released in 1910. The last Templar Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake in 1314, proclaiming the Templars' innocence as he perished. He responded by to that by saying that there was no standard for the mica degradation work that he had performed on the rune stone since to his knowledge he was the first to perform this kind of relative age dating examination. Shortly before his death in summer 1380, the king permitted the hostages to return home. The SMOTJ is far from the only Templar revivalist organization in the United States: There is a separate Masonic order, and various other non-Masonic groups with online presences. [6][12], By the early 1660s, frustration was growing that the colonies were not turning a profit. [5] By this time the Company was languishing. The Cistercians lived under religious vows as Gnostic Christians. There are plenty of women present: In the 1990s, the order, seeking to maximize membership, forsook medieval rules that argued the company of women is a dangerous thinglet not ladies be admitted. One of the postulants is Barbara Prate, a bright, occasionally caustic 45-year-old nurse from New Jersey. //--> Books by Timothy Wallace-Murphy and Andrew Sinclair soon followed from the early 1990s onwards. However, a biography of Hughes de Payens by Thierry Leroy identifies his wife and the mother of his children as Elizabeth de Chappes. It had been uncovered from the deep beneath the banks of the Red River near Climax, Minnesota. Watch with HISTORY Vault. Templar iconography is popular with European neo-fascists: The Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik claimed to be a Templar, and Knights Templar International is an online network that connects far-right activists, particularly in Britain. The waters are often rough for the pre-Columbian, which says much for the runes etched onto its top. A short walking distance from the Westford Knight, the JV Fletcher Library shows a 300-pound glacial granite boulder with a picture of a sailing vessel in the company of three gyphs and an arrow. Account & Lists Returns & Orders. Rosslyn chapel had not been built at this time by the way. The front face had read, Eight Gotlanders and 22 Norwegians on reclaiming/acquisition journey far west from Vinland. [5], Although the Norwegian Jarldom of Orkney was not an inheritable position, successive appointments had operated as if it had been. It was oddly oriented with east at the top and north to the left; this is something a forger would have not been likely to do. This is not far from the Maine coast. Intertwined with the Sinclair voyage story is the claim that Henry Sinclair was a Knight Templar and that the voyage either was sponsored by or conducted on the behalf of the Templars, though the order was suppressed almost half a century before Henry's lifetime. [6] The Knights' ambassador to the French court, Jacques de Souvr, signed the agreement. The inscriptions date of 1362, Wolter demonstrates, was in addition to the encoded in the runic text itself. Ohman brought it to the closest town, Kensington, where his discovery was put on display at the local bank. Cart A couple of the postulants are older: One is an elderly ex-Marine who fought in the Korean War and no longer gets up and down easily. Historians have speculated that in 1391 Sinclair and his troops slew Malise Sparre near Scalloway, Tingwall parish, Shetland.[5][9]. He has ultimately defined it as a land claim marker. Evidence such as this prompted investigators to seek out professional assistance of their own in 2000. Montmagny hoped to help Poincy get the colonies' finances in order. Not many books have ever really rewritten history, yet The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America, by the writer Scott F. Wolter, is definitely one of . This ruined Ohmans life in a time when a mans word was truly his bond. Everything from the treasures of the Knights Templar to Shakespearean manuscripts have been claimed to be buried in the famous Money Pit situated somewhere on the Nova Scotian island. The trio then embarked on a journey westwards to discover unknown new lands. During this time, the Order acted as proprietor of the islands, while the King of France continued to hold nominal sovereignty; however, Poincy ruled largely independent of them both. It encompasses an area from Maine located in the north to the Carolinas in the south, as well from the Atlantic seaboard to the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. Its property was confiscated and its members stripped of their rank. Breda was backed up by Norways head archaeologist of the late 19th century, Oluf Rygh he and his coworkers at Northwestern University at Evanston Illinois proclaimed that the whole translation of the rune stone was entirely based on wrong analysis of the copy. Several researchers have noted that the towers double flue system in the fireplace is comparable with medieval Scottish architecture. The period that was suspected is confirmed when a telltale hooked X was found in the Narragansett Stone. new order. Many people were saying he was lying or just simply crazy. The Knights' presence in the Caribbean grew out of their order's close relationship with the French nobility and the presence of many members in the Americas as French administrators. We are all brought together because of the ideals of a chivalric order, he says. Built in 1160 as a headquarters of the mysterious Knights Templar Catholic army that served the Pope, this sprawling, Unesco-inscribed Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque stronghold served as a fitting . Poincy's rule on St. Kitts is remembered for the spectacle of his large, grand household, the servants all dressed in the emblem of the Knights. Was this North American soil, possibly even Nova Scotia? It was found by the Swedish immigrant farmer, Olof Ohman, while he was clearing his land in the township of Solem, Minnesota, in September of 1898. In 1128, the second baron of Roslin, Henry St Clair, had met the founder of the Knights Templar, Hugh de Payens, when he visited Scotland to spread the word about the. Continuing further down the rabbit hole, the story of Sinclair is also intertwined with the medieval military and religious order known as the Knights Templar.