Templar expert Tony McMahon examines how loyal and brave the Knights Templar actually were in reality
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ascalon, Ashkelon, battle, beausant, brave, bravery, buried, burnt, de molay, De Tramelay, Foreign Legion, history, Holy Land, hype, Islam, jerusalem, knight, Knightfall, knights, loyalty, military, Montgisard, muslim, nine, rule, saladin, saracen, SAS, Spartan, stake, standard, Templar, templars, Tremelay, tyre, war, William
Who was André de Montbard – fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar?
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Category: Templar History
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: Templar Mystery
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: Templar Mystery
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: Templar News
Tags: battle, BBC, buried, da vinci, demons, Devil's Crown, england, game, game of thrones, History Channel, Ivanhoe, Ken Follett, kings, Knightfall, Knights Templar, middle ages, pillars of the earth, Scott, templars, The Tudors, Thrones, tudors, TV, Walter
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: Templar History
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
The castle of Al-Karak in Jordan – الكرك – الأردن – was visited by my good self in 2013. It is one of the great crusader forts still standing in the region. Unfortunately, three years after my visit, ISIS terrorists…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1188, Al-karak, battle, castle, crusader, fort, jordan, Knight Templar, Knightfall, military, Montreal, Raynald of Châtillon, saladin, siege, soldier, Templar, terrorist, war, Warrior
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: Templar History
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: Templar History
Tags: Acre, Akko, battle, buried, crusader, Holy Grail, Knight Templar, Knightfall, Knights Hospitaller, Mamluks, saladin, saracen, secret, Templar, treasure, tunnel
