Abstract
Scholars generally agree on the characteristics of the relationship between the Templars and the kings of Jerusalem. In the thirteenth century, due to their rivalry with the Hospitallers and their own political ambitions, the Templars played their role as ‘guardians of the Holy Land’ less effectively, though some contemporaries continued to acknowledge their respective function. A chronological survey of Templars at the court of Jerusalem starts in 1119, when Hugh of Payns, the soon-to-be first Templar master, witnessed a charter issued by King Baldwin II as the fourth of eleven witnesses, namely after the chancellor and the vicecomes of Acre, but before the lord of Toron. In the case of Hans Eberhard Mayer’s edition, it becomes a history of the kingdom of Jerusalem from the perspective of the royal chancery, demonstrating that, in the thirteenth century, the Templars, as well as the other major military orders, took on responsibilities that one would normally expect to be exercised by the king.
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