Knights Templars

The name of this ancient body has been adopted by a branch of the Masonic fraternity, but in a perverted form— Knights Templar ; and this form is commonly seen in print, whether referring to the old knights or to their modern imitators. This doubtle is due to the erroneous impre ion that Templar is an adjective, and so can not take the plural form; while in fact it is a case of two nouns in apposition—a double designation—meaning Knights of the order of Templars. Hence the plural should be Knights Templars , and not Knights Templar . Members of the contemporaneous order of St. John of Jerusalem were commonly called Knights Hospitallers.