The Legend of Sir Alaric de Vaux: The Last Templar
Birth and Early Life
Born in 1258 in Northumbria, England, to a noble Norman family with Crusader blood, Alaric de Vaux was the youngest son of Lord Godfrey de Vaux, a veteran of the Third Crusade. Raised in the borderlands between England and Scotland, Alaric was trained in warfare, Latin, and scripture. At 17, he took the vow of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon — the Knights Templar.
The Crusades and the Scroll of Antioch
Alaric fought valiantly in the Eighth Crusade and later in minor campaigns defending Christian holdings in the Levant. During a retreat through the ruins of Antioch, he recovered a mysterious scroll hidden within a collapsed church crypt. It bore a sigil linked to the Temple of Solomon and a ciphered map pointing to “the Ark that Sees but is Not Seen.”
The Fall of the Order
When King Philip IV of France moved against the Templars in 1307, Alaric was stationed at a commandery in southern France near Montségur. He received secret word from Grand Master Jacques de Molay to go underground with the scroll and other sacred relics, including a fragment of the Ark of the Covenant — the so-called "Heartwood of Sinai."
The Flight Across Europe
Disguised as a wandering monk, Alaric fled through the Pyrenees into Spain, then sailed to England. In 1312, as the Pope officially dissolved the Order, Alaric vanished. Some say he founded a secret brotherhood — the Red Path — made of surviving Templars sworn to protect the relic and the scroll. Others believe he sought refuge with Cistercian monks in Cumbria, where strange carvings remain in the abbey ruins.
The Legend's End — or Beginning?
The last known mention of Alaric appears in a 14th-century chronicle from a Templar sympathizer in Scotland, who wrote:
“A knight in white with a red cross rode west alone, bearing the Word and the Wood, past the edges of the world.”
Local lore in the Isle of Skye speaks of a “white knight” who came from the east, left a buried chest beneath the standing stones of Callanish, and vanished into the mist.
The Legend of Sir Alaric de Vaux: The Last Templar
Birth and Early Life
Born in 1258 in Northumbria, England, to a noble Norman family with Crusader blood, Alaric de Vaux was the youngest son of Lord Godfrey de Vaux, a veteran of the Third Crusade. Raised in the borderlands between England and Scotland, Alaric was trained in warfare, Latin, and scripture. At 17, he took the vow of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon — the Knights Templar.
The Crusades and the Scroll of Antioch
Alaric fought valiantly in the Eighth Crusade and later in minor campaigns defending Christian holdings in the Levant. During a retreat through the ruins of Antioch, he recovered a mysterious scroll hidden within a collapsed church crypt. It bore a sigil linked to the Temple of Solomon and a ciphered map pointing to “the Ark that Sees but is Not Seen.”
The Fall of the Order
When King Philip IV of France moved against the Templars in 1307, Alaric was stationed at a commandery in southern France near Montségur. He received secret word from Grand Master Jacques de Molay to go underground with the scroll and other sacred relics, including a fragment of the Ark of the Covenant — the so-called "Heartwood of Sinai."
The Flight Across Europe
Disguised as a wandering monk, Alaric fled through the Pyrenees into Spain, then sailed to England. In 1312, as the Pope officially dissolved the Order, Alaric vanished. Some say he founded a secret brotherhood — the Red Path — made of surviving Templars sworn to protect the relic and the scroll. Others believe he sought refuge with Cistercian monks in Cumbria, where strange carvings remain in the abbey ruins.
The Legend's End — or Beginning?
The last known mention of Alaric appears in a 14th-century chronicle from a Templar sympathizer in Scotland, who wrote:
“A knight in white with a red cross rode west alone, bearing the Word and the Wood, past the edges of the world.”
Local lore in the Isle of Skye speaks of a “white knight” who came from the east, left a buried chest beneath the standing stones of Callanish, and vanished into the mist.
