 FACT: The opening crawl begins, "In 1539, the Knight Templars[sic]  of Malta, paid tribute to Charles V of Spain, by sending him a  Golden Falcon..." This confuses two different religious orders of  knights, both founded in Jerusalem. The Knights Hospitallers of the  Order of St. John of Jerusalem, known as the Order of St. John for  short, have existed since 1048; they were in fact based in Malta  from 1530 to 1798 and hence were also called the Knights of Malta.  On the other hand, the Knights of the Temple of Solomon, also called  the Knights Templar or just Templars, were founded in 1119 and  became the sworn enemies of the first order; this latter group was  disbanded by 1312, after King Philip IV of France had declared them  heretics so that he could confiscate their wealth.