
The Cossack cross is shaped like the cross of the Knights Templar. This name also indicates that the Cossacks inherited knightly traditions from the Knights Templar. Since the knights did not accept women in the knightly orders, the Cossacks did not accept women in their organization.Ĭossacks often called themselves “Cossack chivalry”.


This is because the first Cossacks considered themselves a descendant of the traditions of the Knights Templar. There were no women in the Zaporozhye Sich.

The Cossacks took over fighting positions with the Knights Templar and continued the war against the Tatars. Cossacks appeared when the last Templars died, on the border of the Galicia-Volyn principality and the Wild Field, where the Templars built many castles to fight the Tatars.
