Tour Scotland 4K short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Pass of Ballater on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the Highlands of Aberdeenshire. Ballater's origins date back to the early 1300s when the area became part of the estates of the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John, having previously been owned, until their demise in 1307, by the Knights Templar. Its location has always been a strategically important one, commanding both the Dee Valley and Glen Gairn, running north to Strathdon. The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, Latin: Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani, commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. In about the year 1187, William the Lion granted part of the Culter lands on the south bank of the River Dee, Aberdeenshire, to the Knights Templar and between 1221 and 1236 Walter Bisset of Aboyne founded a Preceptory for the Knights Templar. In 1312, by order of a Papal Bull, Vox in Excelso, all assets of the Order of the Temple were given to Knights Hospitaller or Order of St. John except for Spain where they were succeeded by the Order of Montesa the Order of Calatrava, from which its first recruits were drawn, and Portugal where they became the Order of Christ and it has been claimed that in Scotland the Order combined with the Hospitallers and continued as The Order of St John and the Temple until the Reformation, although there is no evidence to that effect. When Sir James Sandilands, Preceptor of the Order converted to Protestantism in 1553, the Order is thought to have ceased. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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