How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit
(via Atlas Obscura) Graybeards were thin on the ground in the 13th century. Average life expectancy was about 31 years, rising to 48 years for those who made it to their twenties. The Knights Templar, then, must have seemed to have some magical potion: Many members of this Catholic military order lived long past 60. And even then, they often died at the hands of their enemies, rather than from illness.
