Who was André de Montbard – fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar?
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Category: Knights Templar, Uncategorized
Tags: André, army, battle, bernard, book, buried, cistercian, Clairvaux, de Montbard, grand master, history, Holy Land, jerusalem, Knightfall, leader, Medieval, military, monk, rule, templars
I have just returned from a very Templar themed holiday in Portugal! SPOILER FREE! I’m not going to give away one tiny morsel of the thrilling documentary on the Templars that the History Channel is planning to accompany its Templar…
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Category: Templars and later myths, Uncategorized
Tags: Ark, battle, bear, blood, buried, covenant, gate, Grail, History Channel, holy, Knightfall, knights, lgbt, mystery, portugal, Templar, tomar, tunnel
I will be appearing as a guest several times in a special edition of Forbidden History devoted to exposing the secrets of the Knights Templar. Presented by Jamie Theakston and broadcast on UKTV/Yesterday TV, Forbidden History asks the questions you…
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Category: Templars and the church, Uncategorized
Tags: battle, dark, Forbidden History, france, Jamie, jerusalem, king, Knights Templar, Medieval, movie, mystery, ritual, secret, Solomon, Templar, templars, Temple, Theakston, torture, treasure, trial, truths, TV, UKTV, Yesterday
Ten best TV series about the Knights Templar or the Middle Ages
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: battle, BBC, buried, da vinci, demons, Devil's Crown, england, game, game of thrones, History Channel, Ken Follett, kings, Knightfall, Knights Templar, middle ages, pillars of the earth, templars, The Tudors, Thrones, tudors, TV
I’ve just returned from a trip to the northern English city of York –…
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Here are ten movies with great medieval battles! The first is the Battle of Montgisard in 1177 where the leper king of Jerusalem Baldwin IV managed to defeat a numerically superior Saracen force. Here’s how the movie Arn portrayed it….
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Category: Templars and later myths, Uncategorized
Tags: 13th Warrior, arn, Bastards, battle, Battle of Montgisard, braveheart, game of thrones, History Channel, Horns of Hattin, Islam, Joan of Arc, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, Lord of the Rings, Maleficent, Medieval, movie, Vikings
Here they are – the TOP baddies of the Middle Ages! KING JOHN OF ENGLAND Took on the barons and lost, then made to sign Magna Carta Excommunicated by the Pope Mislaid the crown jewels in a marshy…
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Category: Middle Ages
Tags: Andronikos, Barbarossa, battle, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, children, constantinople, crusades, Dandolo, Dante, destroy, doge, emperor, Enrico, experiment, fair, Fourth Crusade, france, Frederick, Honorius, John King of England, king john, knight, Knightfall, Komnenos, Magna Carta, Medieval, Philip, pope, Pope Honorius III, siege, Templar, templars, torture, war
In 2012, I visited the ancient town of Acre in modern Israel (now called Akko). It’s still dominated by the castle built by the Knights Templar and underneath this might medieval construction is a secret tunnel – its purpose still…
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Category: Knightfall
Tags: Acre, Akko, battle, buried, crusader, Holy Grail, Knight Templar, Knightfall, Knights Hospitaller, Mamluks, saladin, saracen, secret, Templar, treasure, tunnel
We look back to the Knights Templar and it’s odd from our modern standpoint to see men of God dressed in full battle gear off to slay the enemy. Aren’t priests and bishops supposed to be advocates of peace? Well,…
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Category: Christianity
Tags: Absalom, Absalon, battle, bayeux, crusade, drenth, norman, odo, Roskilde, Svantevit, Templar, Wend
