Who was André de Montbard – fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar?
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Category: Knights Templar, Uncategorized
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Hugh de Payens – founder of the Knights Templar
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Were the Knights Templar heretics as charged?
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Category: Knights Templar, Uncategorized
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
Here’s a great idea for a Templar holiday this year – visit all the Templar hotspots mentioned in my book Quest for the True Cross. I’ve been to all of them (barring one) and can guarantee – they are fascinating…
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Category: Middle Ages, Uncategorized
Tags: Abelard, barn, bernard, Clairvaux, Cressing Temple, cross, Dome, Edessa, essex, history, jerusalem, knight, knights, lignum crucis, London, Medieval, quest, Rock, saint, Templar, templars, Temple, today, Witham
Martim Moniz was a Portuguese crusader who fought with the first king of Portugal – Dom Afonso Henriques – when he conquered what was then the Islamic city of Al-Usbuna which would subsequently become the Christian capital of Portugal…Lisbon. Many…
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Category: Middle Ages
Tags: bernard, buried, Clairvaux, crusader, History Channel, Islam, Knightfall, Lisboa, Lisbon, martim, moniz, moor, portugal, Templar
Bernard of Clairvaux was the great spiritual force behind the Templars – the Cistercian ascetic who promoted the Order in its early years and is believed to have largely authored the Rule. As I’m in Jerusalem and have just visited…
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Twenty years after the founding of the Templar Order, the rebel ‘anti-pope‘ Anacletus II had died and pope Innocent II was able to seize control of the church with the support of Bernard of Clairvaux and other senior clerics. There…
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As is often said, the Templars were the first multinational corporation – through a network of preceptories across Europe and the Middle East, engaged in farming, shipping and finance to fund their crusading activities. The Templar Timeline 1118 – Foundation…
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The Knights Templar are routinely referred to as ‘warrior monks’. But were the Templars really monks in the accepted sense. In her book ‘The Templars – The Secret History Revealed’, well respected author Barbara Frale makes the point that strictly…
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Category: Templars and the church
Tags: barbara frale, bernard, Bernard of Clairvaux, church, faith, god, Holy Orders, Knight Templar, Sacrament, saracen, Templar, templars, vatican
