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5th April 2021 15:16
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THE TEMPLARS IN SOUTH AMERICA from the 12th century
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS IN SOUTH AMERICA
PART ONE (of TWO)
1. At a symposium celebrated in 1992 at Castilla la Vieja, Soria, Spain, the then Grand Prior General of the Sovereign and Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, Fernando del Toro Garland, confirmed the existence of documentary proof of voyages made by the Knights Templars to America before Columbus.
Columbus consulted the Templars' nautical archives in the possession of the Orden de Calatrava in order to persuade Isabel la Católica to finance his voyage to the New World.(footnote 1)
2. The purpose of the Templar voyages to South America was to mine and then import silver to Europe for their own purposes. If one takes into account that the Templars always paid with coins of genuine silver, a metal of greater value at that time than gold, the mystery remains for modern historians where the Templars obtained the silver since apart from a few small mines in Germany it was not to be found in Europe.
If one adds the fact that the Order maintained a fortified port on the Bay of Biscay at La Rochelle, the seventeen or so ships based there (the fleet as at 1307) being of no value for the defence of the Middle East, one may reasonably assume that they were used to sail between France and the coast of Brazil in connection with the silver mining activities of the Order in Bolivia.
(Footnote 1) See Antonio Las Heras, La Trama Colón, Ediciones Nowtilus, Madrid. The author is an Argentine broadcaster, author and journalist. The book is about Columbus and his discovery of the New World.
PART TWO follows.
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5th April 2021 18:18
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