In consequence of the services to the Christians performed by the Poor Fellow-Soldiers, Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, gave them for a habitation, for hitherto they seem to have had no fixed place of abode,
“the place or royal house to the South of the Temple of the Lord, vulgarly called the Temple of Solomon,”
This place or royal house was
“within the sacred inclosure of the Temple on Mount Moriah.”
The large Court between the Temple of Solomon was also conceded to them. They were, henceforth, termed, “The Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon,” and sometimes, as in the Rule of St. Bernard, “The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Jesus Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.”
