Ramsay's oration (delivered in Paris on 27 Dec 1736, long dated to 1737) tied Masonry to crusader knights
Documented · occurred What these labels mean →Andrew Michael Ramsay's oration traced Freemasonry to the crusaders ('Our ancestors, the Crusaders…'). The Grand Lodge of BC&Y dates its delivery to 27 Dec 1736 in Paris, 'long thought to have been delivered on 21 March 1737'; it was printed in 1741. It names crusaders generally; Ramsay mentions the Templars only once, in a later posthumous work, and the Templar lineage came from later rites.
Evidence
| Relation | Record | Note |
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| documents | freemasonry.bcy.ca | Grand Lodge of BC&Y: Ramsay 'did nothing more than deliver an oration in Paris on 27 December 1736 [long thought to have been delivered on 21 March 1737] in which he expounded a Crusader transmission of masonic teachings'; mentions the Templars once, in his posthumously published Philosophical Principles |
| corroborates | scottishrite.org | Scottish Rite (S.J.) Q&A: oration text, published 1741, 'Our ancestors, the Crusaders…'; Ramsay's 'Crusaders' later morphed into the Knights Templar |
Sources
| Source | Relation | At |
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| Freemasons - dark side (Timeline doc) | asserts |
Claim
Andrew Michael Ramsay's oration traced Freemasonry to the crusaders ('Our ancestors, the Crusaders…'). The Grand Lodge of BC&Y dates its delivery to 27 Dec 1736 in Paris, 'long thought to have been delivered on 21 March 1737'; it was printed in 1741. It names crusaders generally; Ramsay mentions the Templars only once, in a later posthumous work, and the Templar lineage came from later rites.