Los archivos de la Orden del Temple en Portugal: la reconstrucción posible

The Templar archives should be considered at a plural level: there are national and multinational archives. These include the convent archives, the master’s archives, the commendatory archives, and the commendators’ archives. The Templar archives in Portugal should be viewed over a span of several hundred years. To this end, we will reflect on two issues: first, the temporal constitution of the Templar archives in Portugal from around 1128 onwards, and second, their dispersal following the suppression of the Order of the Temple after 1312. At the same time, we will analyse the possibility of creating a cartulary of the Order of the Temple in Portugal. Unlike in other Iberian kingdoms, there are no known medieval Templar cartularies in Portugal. Therefore, it was necessary to compile the Templar documentation identified mainly in national archives to create the so-called Cartulary of the Order of the Temple in Portugal.