Knights Templar links to the Cathar heresy
There were links between the Knights Templar and the Cathars or Albigensian heresy that might explain why the King of France crushed the Templars
2013
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Constantinople – at the time of the Crusades
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English Kings whose bodies have disappeared!
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A medieval object called an Oliphant made from an elephant
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English churches transformed since the Knights Templar era
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The fight over the body of King Richard III
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