In 1307, arrest warrants were issued for the Knights Templar from the King of France on charges of heresy, sodomy and conspiracy. This led to the trial over a seven year period of many knights including the leaders of the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Boccaccio, Boniface, burnt, Dante, Divine Comedy, fire, florence, france, Giovanni, guilty, italy, knight, Knightfall, Llull, stake, Templar, templars, trial
Templar expert Tony McMahon reveals the Rule book of the Knights Templar and how it covered everything from eating to praying
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Benedictine, bernard, book, christ, cistercian, Clairvaux, dress, drinking, eating, error, faith, female, food, hair, initiation, join, Knightfall, monastic, monk, obedience, pope, prayer, punishment, rite, rule, sex, Templar, today, women
The Knights Templar were often said to be on a hunt for the passion relics of Jesus including the Holy Grail
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, Catholic, christ, column, cross, crown, crucifixion, flagellation, good thief, Grail, history, Holy Grail, jerusalem, jesus, knight, Knightfall, Knights Templar, lance, Longinus, nail, passion relic, rome, series, Templar, thorns, true, truth, TV, veil, Veronica
Tony McMahon investigates whether the Knights Templar worshipped a head as they were accused of in their trial
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Category: Templar History
Tags: accusation, baphomet, cat, Cathar, christ, devil, esoteric, face, faces, game of thrones, goth, head, jesus, knight, magic, many, payens, satan, spell, Templar, trial, venerate, worship
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation
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Category: Templar History
Tags: ban, body, boil, burial, buried, cook, dead, death, deflesh, defleshing, emperor, eviscerate, evisceration, excarnation, fire, flesh, history, kill, king, Knightfall, murder, noble, pope, skeleton, strip, Templar, today, zombie
Tony McMahon searches for the exact spot where Templar grand master Jacques de Molay was executed in Paris
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, 1314, Île de la Cité, bridge, buried, burning, death, execution, expert, grand master, historian, history, jacques de molay, knight, Knightfall, mcmahon, monument, paris, place, Pont Neuf, site, stake, Templar, today, Tony, trial
A visit to Istanbul – once called Constantinople and capital of the Byzantine Empire
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baphomet, blind, Blue Mosque, byzantine, christ, Cistern, constantinople, crusade, Dan Brown, Dandolo, doge, empire, Enrico, faith, fourth, Galata, god, Hagia Sophia, Holiday, hotel, Inferno, istanbul, James Bond, Karavan, Knightfall, Ottoman, safe, Templar, tourism, tourist, tower, weekend
This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular Templar blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
This week, in the English wintry sun, I visited a church packed with history – Waltham Abbey. It’s located in the county of Essex, just 15 minutes by train out of London. The church is famous for including the grave…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbey, altar, Augustinian, burial, canon, Canute, chancel, church, cloister, cross, Denny, dissolution, eleanor, england, essex, flint, grave, Harold, Hastings, Henry II, Holy Cross, monasteries, monastery, Montacute, nave, norman, priest, priory, Reformation, Saxon, site, somerset, Templar, tomb, Tovi, Viking, Waltham
What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbot, Ancient, blind, buff, carol, Christmas, dark, dulci, egg, feast, feasting, game, games, goose, jubilo, light, Lord, Medieval, middle ages, mike oldfield, misrule, modern, sun, Templar, turkey, unreason, wassail, wassailing, winter solstice, Yule, yuletide
