Eleven Knights

How Eleven Knights Founded a New Country and Found a Secret Refuge for the Grail

Conventional history holds that in 1118, nine men formed a brotherhood in Jerusalem called the Knights Templar to provide protection for pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. Contrary to the long-established historical narrative, Portugal: The First Templar Nation demonstrates that the Order of the Temple existed a decade earlier in the opposite corner of Europe, in its westernmost territory.

It reveals that the protection of pilgrims in Jerusalem was entrusted to a separate organization and that, in collusion with Cistercian monks and the mysterious Order of Zion, the Templars carried out one of the most daring and secretive plans in history: the creation of Europe's first independent nation-state, Portugal, with one of their own as king.

By placing the intrepid knights in an unknown time and place, the author reveals the Portuguese roots of important founding members, their relationship with the Order of Sion, the Templars' unwavering devotion to Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist, and how they protected a sacred bloodline in Portugal.

In addition, he provides evidence of the existence of secret Templar holy sites, initiation chambers and secret passages scattered throughout our country, often coinciding with pagan and Neolithic temples, and explains how their most important site forms a perfect triangle with the Abbey of Mount Sion in Jerusalem and the Osireion in Egypt.

He also unravels the true mystery of the Grail and its exact location, hidden until today in plain sight.

With hundreds of new references and rare sources, this book reveals that it was Portugal, not Jerusalem, that was the first stronghold of the Templars. It mentions the founding members of the order and how the first king of Portugal, a secret Templar, was linked to Bernard of Clairvaux, leader of the Cistercians. It also explains the Templars' motivation to create a new country far from the reach of Rome, where they could fulfill their most important mission: a secret that the Templars protected to the death and which cost the lives of thousands of them.

An original and enlightening account that will attract and surprise the most demanding readers.