ABSTRACT
The state of the early settlers in the Crown of Aragon provides two points of consideration for discussing Templar liturgy. Those Templars who settled in Aragon and Catalonia at the early date when the liturgical landscape was dominated by the Benedictine and secular orders could only have made recourse to local priests available from these two Orders. The inventory entries of Jaume II's registers demonstrate that Templars in the Crown of Aragon had extensive quantities of liturgical manuscripts. The religious indications stipulated by the Templar Rule form only what can be considered a very fragmentary Templar ordinal. The questions and observations the author has raised regarding the Arago-Catalan Templars are equally valid when discussing other military orders. Some commanderies such as that of Barcelona might have celebrated a Franciscan liturgy, while that of Palma de Majorca appears to have followed the Cistercian use, and many other commanderies certainly made recourse to local secular priests.
