Charlie, I was refering to the skull and crossbones.
And I should also state that the Templar theory is just that. one possible theory. The Templars have had a lot of things attributed to them over the centuries. ne thing is historical fact though, the Templars were enormously wealthy and when they were rounded up on Friday the 13th, 1307, the Templar fleet escaped along with the Templar treasure. To this day, it has never bee located and it remains one of history's great mysteries. Here's a brief synopsis of the theory from Wikpedia:
"In his book Pirates & The Lost Templar Fleet, David Hatcher Childress claims that the flag was named after the first man to fly it, King Roger II of Sicily (c.1095-1154). Roger was a famed Templar and the Knights Of The Temple were in conflict with the Pope over his conquests of Apulia and Salerno in 1127.[4] Childress claims that, many years later, after the Templars were disbanded by the church, at least one Templar fleet split into four independent flotillas dedicating themselves to pirating ships of any country sympathetic to Rome, thus the flag was an inheritance, and its crossed bones a reference to the original Templar logo of a red cross with blunted ends."
