This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front –…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
Netflix has just launched its glossy drama on Robert the Bruce titled Outlaw King. Chris Pine is in the lead role. It’s a sympathetic characterisation of Robert compared to Mel Gibson’s hatchet job in Braveheart. But what viewers may…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Bannockburn, battle, braveheart, bruce, Chris Pine, Edward, king, outlaw, Outlaw king, robert, rosslyn, Scotland, Scottish, Templar, treasure
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. An incredible…
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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
Comedians take aim at the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: braveheart, comedian, comedy, comic, crusader, French and Saunders, Holy Grail, medieval, middle ages, Monty Python, Robin Hood, Templar, tights
Mel Gibson missed the chance to depict a truly epic scene in his movie Braveheart – the killing of two leading Knights Templar by his hero’s forces. And it’s something based in fact! Because both the grand master of England and the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Bannockburn, battle, Battle of Falkirk, braveheart, Brian Le Jay, death, england, English Channel, Ivanhoe, knight, mel gibson, novel, religion, Scotland, Scott, sinclair, Templar, temple newsam, Victorian, Walter Scott, William Wallace
