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 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 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 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
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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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