Secret Societies of the Middle Ages
CHAPTER III.
Return of the Templars to the East--Exoneration and Refutation of the Charge of a Connection with the Ismaïlites--Actions of the Templars--Crusade of Louis VII.--Siege of Ascalon--Sale of Nassir-ed-deen--Corruption of the Hospitallers--The Bull, _Omne Datum Optimum_--Refusal of the Templars to march against Egypt--Murder of the Ismaïlite Envoy 199