Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
by robot9000 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:11AM
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So eager to name the templars but so shy about mentioning the particular group that came after them. I really wonder who that could be. Nothing from the article. I wonder why that is.
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Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
by ValentineC on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:01AM
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You could name them, because I have no idea if you're referring to modern-day bankers, the lawyers who took over their premises, or some other organisation.
Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
by kasey_junk on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @09:25AM
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Almost certainly an anti-Semitic trope.
But perhaps they are referencing Huguenots: https://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/blog/huguenots-and-the-wo...
Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
by twic on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:59AM
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He can only mean the Templi Resurgentes Equites Synarchici. The less said of whom, the better.
Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
by mherdeg on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:41PM
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A distant predecessor of Tristero, no doubt.
Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
by barbecue_sauce on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @10:38AM
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The Order of Christ?
Re:The Knights Templar started London's first bank (2017)
by dang on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:46PM
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Sorry, but you can't do this here. Since your account has posted unsubstantive and flamebait comments in quite a few other contexts too, I've banned it.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.