Welcome to Templar Wales

This project started because the Knights Templar stayed in Wales for almost one hundred and seventy years, yet they receive little attention. Visitors flock to the Norman castles. Coach tours fill the Edwardian fortresses. The Templars built neither and are often ignored as a result.

The oversight is unfortunate because the Welsh Templar record is remarkably clear. No crusading battles occurred on this soil. No dramatic sieges took place. The evidence shows a religious order focused on work; they ran farms, mills, and ferries while managing wool exports to fund the Holy Land using rents from Pembrokeshire fields.

This site will expand into a guide covering that history. It will include detailed entries on documented Templar and Hospitaller sites, an illustrated map, a weekend driving itinerary, and The Templar Chronicle of research notes. The entire collection will be published as an ebook later. For now, welcome and thank you for reading.