My recollection is from 'Ivanhohe' by Walter Scott, and I claim no
scholarship whatsoever on the subject of Templars; but for what is worth,
the Templar knight in the novel was telling his flame Rebecca that Templars
were not allowed the osculum dilectionis with their own sisters, and that
women, not even the Templars' sisters (not Templar nuns, but ladies born of
the same parents as their Templar brothers), were not allowed in the
convent - all of which he was ready to forget for Rebecca's sake.
Cheers, Luciana
Luciana Cuppo Csaki
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From: "Herwig Weigl" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: Female Templars
> > I recently came across a reference (below) to a woman joining the
sisters of the Templars and I was wondering if anyone knows more about such
a sisterhood
>
> J. M. Upton-Ward, The Rule of the Templars (Woodbridge 1992) p. 36
paragraph 70 (translated from the Primitive Rule of the order, apparently
predating your example):".... Henceforth, let not ladies be admitted as
sisters into the house of the Temple ..."
>
> U-W then gives a reference to A. Forey, Women and the Military Orders in
the Twelft and Thirteenth Centuries, in: Studia Monastica 1987, pp. 63-92,
with examples for the Templars on pp. 65s.
>
> yours, h.w.
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