THE ORIGINS OF THE NAME TEMPLE BRUER
The family ancestry was traced back to a Knights Templar church called Temple Bruer, which is situated in Lincolnshire, England. The Knights Templar were founded in about 1118 to protect pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. The Knights migrated from London to Lincolnshire in 1185, where, twelve miles from the city of Lincoln, they built in the ‘Brueria’ (heathland) a circular temple church after the design of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Today, all that remains of the temple (pictured above) is the melancholy tower, probably the domestic chapel of the Grand Prior, incongruous in a typical English farmyard scene. This structure is depicted on the Temple Bruer label.
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