The Templar Chronicle

Preface

• §1 Preface: Why this book exists — The Historian’s Compass
• §2 A note on method, sources and the two Orders — A Standard of Evidence

Chapter 1: Before Wales

• §1 The birth of the Order — Before Wales: the birth of the Order
• §2 Wales in the twelfth century: a country half-conquered — A Country Half-Conquered
• §3 Why the Marcher lords gave land to the Templars — Souls and Strongholds

Chapter 2: The first grants

• §1 Slebech: the foundation grant — The Mud of the Cleddau
• §2 The Flemish colony of Pembrokeshire — A Little England in Wales
• §3 Templeton and the naming of places — Names upon the Land: Templeton and the Toponymic Ghost

Chapter 3: Farming for the crusade

• §1 The Pembrokeshire granges — The Satellite Granges of the Cleddau
• §2 Wool, mills and ferries — Wool, mills and ferries
• §3 The 1308 inventory — A Cold Accounting at Slebech

Chapter 4: 1307-1312

• §1 Arrests in Wales — The King’s Sheriff at the Gates
• §2 The transfer to the Hospitallers — The Legacy of Ad Providam
• §3 The 1338 Hospitaller survey — The Thame Report: A Grand Master’s Audit

Chapter 5: The white cross replaces the red

• §1 Life under the Hospitallers — The Legacy of the White Cross
• §2 Gower: Llanmadoc and Llanddewi — Gower: Llanmadoc and Llanddewi
• §3 The dissolution of 1540 — The Dissolution of the White Cross

Chapter 6: What survives

• §1 Slebech today — The Ruin on the Cleddau
• §2 The Masonic revival — A Chain of Antiquarians
• §3 Walking the Templar landscape — The Palimpsest of the Frontier

Chapter 7: Other religious orders in Wales

• §1 The Cistercians: white monks and the Welsh economy — The Cistercian Shadow: Competition and Coexistence
• §2 The Hospitallers before the transfer — The Heirs of the Red Cross
• §3 Pilgrim roads to St Davids and Holywell — The Economy of the Sacred Way

Chapter 8: The brothers' day

• §1 Rule, office and silence — The Bell and the Silence
• §2 Knights, sergeants, chaplains and servants — The Hierarchy of the Hall
• §3 Bread, ale and buildings — The Sustenance of the Cloister

Chapter 9: Hospitaller Gower

• §1 Llanmadoc and the western peninsula — The Western Finger of Gower
• §2 Rhossili, Port Eynon and the southern coast — The Southern Chain: Rhossili and Port Eynon
• §3 Parish, pilgrim and Preceptor — The Exempt Parish

Chapter 10: From dissolution to revival

• §1 The dissolution of 1540 and after — The Great Dissolution and the Barlow Inheritance
• §2 Antiquarians and the Templar myth — The Invented Footprint
• §3 The Masonic revival and Wales today — The Provincial Inheritance

Chapter 11: Reference material

• §1 Gazetteer of Welsh Templar and Hospitaller sites — A Ledger of Tenures
• §2 Glossary and timeline — A Vernacular of the Temple
• §3 Sources and further reading — A Bibliography of the Military Orders in Wales

Afterword

• §1 What the Welsh evidence tells us — The Persistence of the Myth