Originally posted by sohguanh:
[b]This is totally different from what I read abt the
Knights Templar
Tell summarise your version you have ?
Note Rome did extend their empire all the way to Britain but did
not stay long enuff to conquer it satisfactorily. Remember the
Gladiator movie when Rome soldiers are in a winter land fighting
battle with the painted tribal ppl they called the Picts. That is
somewhere in Britain.
So the link of Rome to King Arthur is a logical deduction 
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Deductions, assumptions, etc. are great for enjoyable,
stimulating conversation that leads to further learning. However,
they do not lead one to writing history books based merely on their
assumptions, because they would be laughed out of everywhere... If
you have interest on a subject, and you have some ideas - it's
probably best to go and actually learn about it before claiming
certain "truths"
The origin of the knights is very clearly documented in history as
protectors of certain types of monks, akin to Cistern tradition.
Soon after, the founding members of the knights become involved
before, during, and after the "Crusades," and took on many
activities other than demanding that non-christians "convert or
die".
