FWIW, Zed:
"The Templars' emblem was a horse carrying two knights, a symbol of poverty and brotherhood. Bernard clearly viewed his rough-hewed band more favorably than he did rich secular knights, noting that Templars were seen 'rarely washed, their beards bushy, sweaty and dusty, stained by their harness and the heat'. The Knights Templars wore white mantels emblazoned with a red cross and rode to battle behind a white and black banner called the Beauseant, after the piebald horsed favored by the order's founders. The same word became their battle cry." - Ancient Wisdom and Secret Sects
http://www.lundyisleofavalon.co.uk/templars/tempic09.htm
FTR: yes, I saw that "mantels"...and horsed.