The first effective international organization in Europe was considered to be the Bernard’s Cistercian Order. Similar to it, was the organization of the Knights Templar. It was a monastic order.

The organization was formed with a strong authority chain. Each of the countries with majority in the Templar presence,(in which are included Poitou, Apulia, Tripoli, France, Aragon, Jerusalem, Antioch, Hungary and Anjou) had an Order’s Master in the corresponding regions. The Grand Masters were always French. He not only oversaw the Order’s East military efforts, not only their West financial holdings, but was also appointed for life.

Although there are not any precise numbers, the Order is thought to have been between 15,000 and 20,000 Tamplars, during that time. The real knights of them were only about a tenth.

The so called Latin Rule, known to the modern historians, as the “specific behavior for the Templar Order”, was devised by Bernard de Clairvaux, and Hugues de Payens. It has 72 clauses, in which the ideal behavior of a knight is described.

For the knights everything had matter, even in details-starting with the type of robe for wearing, to how much horses they were allowed to have, and through the full isolation from any physical contact with a woman(Even with their mothers or sisters), to the way of eating their meals in silence, and eating meat only 3 times in a week.

The Templars were divided into threefold rank groups, as follows: Aristocratic knights, lower-born sergeants, and clergy.

The members of the Order, called each other “brother”. For the Order’s Master, were assigned 4 horses, and he had one clerk with 3 horses with him, as also one chaplain-brother. Also one sergeant brother with 2 horses, and one gentleman valet, with only one horse, carrying the Grand Master's lance and shield. The original list of only 72 clauses, in its final form, expanded to hundreds of clauses.