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How a Knight Templar celebrated Christmas!

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Tony McMahon

Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how Christmas would have been celebrated by the Knights Templar – welcome to a medieval Christmas of feasting!

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Category: Templar History Tags: bethlehem, birth, bishop, boy, Christmas, crib, jesus, king, knight, Knightfall, manger, medieval, mummer, mumming, Nicholas, peacock, queen, saint, Templar, wassail, wassailing, Yule

Newark Castle – Knights Templar prison

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Tony McMahon

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Newark Castle saw many English Knights Templar imprisoned in its dungeons interrogated and tortured after the order was suppressed in 1307

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Category: Templar Mystery Tags: 1307, bishop, castle, Dungeon, dysentery, exhibition, france, king, king john, knight, knights, Lincoln, louis, Magna Carta, medieval, newark, Nottingham, Templar, templars

The Knights Templar versus the medieval chroniclers

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Tony McMahon

The Knights Templar got a terrible write up from medieval chroniclers like Walter Map and William of Tyre

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Category: Templar History Tags: America Unearthed, author, bishop, cave, chronicler, Forbidden History, history, Holy Land, Honorius, Knight Templar, lies, Matthew Paris, medieval, middle ages, monk, omne datum optimum, parchment, pope, propaganda, quill, Scott Wolter, scribe, Templar, Troyes, truth, tyre, Walter Map, Wemyss, William, writer

Medieval Killer Priests who terrorised battlefields!

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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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

Your Day of Judgment has arrived – medieval style

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Tony McMahon

In English medieval churches, it’s now almost impossible to imagine the walls as they once were – covered in lurid depictions of the Day of Judgment and hell fire for the sinful. During the Protestant Reformation, church walls were whitewashed,…

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Category: Templar History Tags: archdiocese, bishop, Catholic, diocese, goth, hell, Medieval, Templar

Inquisition hunts down Christian converts

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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Christian converts from Judaism and Islam may have hoped to avoid the Spanish Inquisition but the 1506 Lisbon massacre proved otherwise

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Category: Templar History Tags: baptism, bishop, Catholic, conversion, convert, death, execution, forced, history, infidel, Inquisition, Islam, jews, Lisbon, Manuel, massacre, Muslims, pagan, persecution, pope, revert, Sao Domingos