During the next two hundred years monasticism boomed. Many variant types of monasticism were spawned: besides the Benedictines there were orders known as the Cistercians, Carthusians, Premonstratensians, Trinitarians, Gilbertines, Augustinians, Paulines, Celestines, Dominicans, and Franciscans, as well as military orders that included the Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights.
