Templar expert Tony McMahon on a visit to a medieval castle in Jordan found evidence that bombs were used in the medieval Crusades
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Category: Templar News
Tags: battle, bombs, crusade, crusades, egypt, incendiary, israel, jordan, lebanon, Levant, Medieval, saladin, syria, war
Movie after movie with a great medieval battle scene – Tony McMahon looks at the best of these historical hack ‘n slash pictures at the cinema
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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
Tony McMahon looks at one medieval bad guy after another to decide who was the most evil man in the Middle Ages among popes and kings
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Andronikos, bad, Barbarossa, battle, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, children, constantinople, crusades, Dandolo, Dante, destroy, doge, emperor, Enrico, experiment, fair, Fourth Crusade, france, Frederick, guy, Honorius, John King of England, king john, knight, Knightfall, Komnenos, Magna Carta, Medieval, Philip, pope, Pope Honorius III, siege, Templar, templars, torture, war
The Siege of Acre in 1291 saw the Mamluks overrun the crusader fortress defeating the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Acre, Akko, battle, buried, crusader, Holy Grail, Knight Templar, Knightfall, Knights Hospitaller, Mamluks, saladin, saracen, secret, siege, Templar, treasure, tunnel
Jaffa was a port in the Holy Land of key strategic importance in the Crusades though now reduced to a suburb of Tel Aviv in modern Israel
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Category: Templar News
Tags: battle, crusade, crusades, israel, Jaffa, lionheart, Ottoman, peace, richard, saladin, Third Crusade, war, Yafo
Medieval killer priests were men of the cloth who had no qualms about getting into armour and clubbing their enemies to death in battle
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Absalom, Absalon, Archbishop, battle, bayeux, bishop, buried, crusade, death, drenth, kill, killer, Knightfall, norman, odo, pope, priests, Roskilde, Svantevit, Templar, Wend
Paganism lingered in Europe way into the Middle Ages though eventually the Catholic church suppressed it with violence
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Army of Valhalla, battle, byzantine, constantine, crusade, empire, Greek, ice, Iron Lord, Jupiter, knights, Lithuania, murder, non-belief, pagan, paganism, philosophy, Poland, roman, russia, Templar, Teutonic, Teutonic knights, Theodosius, war, Wend, wicca, Wiccan
How discipline was enforced in a Templar squadron with strict adherence to the Rule book
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There’s some amazing medieval video games out there but do they reflect the real horror of medieval battles and sieges – Tony McMahon reports
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Category: Templar History
Tags: A Plague Tale, battle, Blade, castle, Chronicles of Elyria, crusades, Darkborn, death, game, games, history, knights, Medieval, military, Mordhau, Mount, Mount & Blade, Outward, siege, Templar, templars, The Settlers, torture, Total War, Valhall, video, violence, war
