The Knights Templar faced two sets of charges during their trials between 1304 and 1314 that fell under Heresy and Sodomy. One crime involved denying the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the supremacy of the Roman Catholic church. The other crime, sodomy, was the use of sex to undermine the natural order of things. Both…
Did the Knights Templar know they were going to be arrested? It’s a key question because all those theories about the Templars burying secret treasure in various locations rests on the knights having advance knowledge that the French king’s forces were coming to round them up. Mainstream historians – and contemporary chroniclers – are almost…
One thinks of The Crusades as being a very macho affair full of swinging swords and the clash of steel – and indeed it was for over two hundred years. During that period, some of the leading warriors provoked gossip over their preference for men between the sheets. Being gay didn’t in any way diminish…
Around the year 1119, a band of knights in Jerusalem formed the order of holy warriors we have come to know as the Knights Templar. But what was their motive? One reason given is that they were shocked by the massacre of hundreds of Easter pilgrims by the Saracens in that year, by the river…
Many stories from history involve those who have brought upon themselves ill fortune by their endeavours. Cursed Histories investigates these frightening tales from the past. And I’m one of the experts so make sure to watch the Super Channel in Canada over the next few weeks to catch this amazing series. The show was nominated…
Two 1970s novels claimed the Knights Templar were set up by an extraterrestrial called Baphomet as Tony McMahon discovers
The Knights Templar had very particular battle fighting tactics making them very effective, as TV historian Tony McMahon discovers
TV historian Tony McMahon appears on GBNews with Anne Diamond to discuss the Knights Templar and a new discovery
The Knights Templar were accused of worshipping a devilish goat-like head called Baphomet but what exactly was this demon they followed?
Two Muslim majority countries in Europe revere a Christian crusader called Skanderbeg as a national hero – Tony McMahon investigates why
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