The murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
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The Knights Templar have been accused of being gnostic and Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, Abraxas, Albigensian, Arian, assassin, bernard, Cathar, catholic, church, Clairvaux, crusade, gnostic, heresy, heretical, innocent, Inquisition, Ismaili, knights, man, medieval, Montferrat, mountain, murder, myth, Nogaret, old, Plato, pope, Puylaurens, rome, saladin, shia, Soumrak templářů, Templar, Toulouse, Waldensian
Five years ago I posted on this blog about a medieval Arab chronicler who visited a “Frankish” (crusader owned) house in Jerusalem only to find that pork had been banished and the cooks were serving up delicious eastern food. He…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Al Quds, Arab, assassin, enemy, friend, Gnosticism, head, Islam, israel, jerusalem, knights, medieval, middle ages, muslim, Quds, Templar, templars
Was the medieval cult of the Assassins a precursor to the 21st century terrorists of ISIS or Daesh?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: assassin, Assassins, baghdadi, church, creed, crusades, iraq, IS, ISIS, Islam, islamic, Knight Templar, murder, Templar
It’s one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Crusades and one to ponder if you get bored with your family’s company over the Christmas dinner – which I am sure you will not. But just in case! The story…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: air, assassin, broadcast, buried, christianity, crusades, Daesh, discovery, egypt, History Channel, Knight Templar, Knightfall, muslim, Old Man of the Mountain, Templar, TV
Did the real Knights Templar hate the Assassins? The claim made in Assassin’s Creed may not be true
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abstergo, assassin, civilization, creed, Desmond Miles, Eden, History Channel, human, Isu, Knightfall, mountain, Precursors, real, sapien, shia, Templar
The theory that the Knights Templar brought cannabis to Europe via their contact with the Assassins
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: assassin, Cannabis, dope, drugs, hashish, high, knights, legal, Medieval, narcotics, Templar, weed