The house of the Templars (also called house of Our Lady) is located Douai, in the North, and was built from 1155 according to the wishes of the Count of Flanders.
It is a fortified building with a chapel, all under the religious and military order of the Temple.
In 1312, the Knights Templar being abolished by Pope Clement V, the field returned to the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem who occupied the premises until the Revolution.
Enjoying many privileges originally, the Templars and their successors were entitled to justice on their field and their relations with civilians aldermen of the city were sometimes conflicting.
Part of the building having been built fortifications from the fifteenth century, the house was abandoned as a residence in the course of the eighteenth, and a mass was said in the chapel until 1762 by the religious order.
Two tombstones were discovered in the same chapel in 1810, which was demolished a few years later.
The rest of the house, it was sold as national property during the Revolution and time converted farm. Now protected as historical monuments restored in the twentieth century, the building brick, yet with elements of military architecture, and decorated with coats of arms evoking the orders were the residents, is not accessible to the public. However, it jalonnera forward to a journey along the ancient walls of the city.
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