There are Templar influences in Game of Thrones if you look closely enough as Templar expert Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: bay, byzantine, Cathar, christian, comparison, constantinople, Dorne, empire, fantasy, game of thrones, george, George R. R. Martin, High Sparrow, history, iconoclasm, iconoclast, J R R Tolkein, king, Kingdom, knight, Knights Templar, Martin, Medieval, middle ages, Night's Watch, Nights, Qarth, queen, Roses, Seville, slaver, Templar, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein, true, war, Westeros
A visit to Istanbul – once called Constantinople and capital of the Byzantine Empire
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baphomet, blind, Blue Mosque, byzantine, christ, Cistern, constantinople, crusade, Dan Brown, Dandolo, doge, empire, Enrico, faith, fourth, Galata, god, Hagia Sophia, Holiday, hotel, Inferno, istanbul, James Bond, Karavan, Knightfall, Ottoman, safe, Templar, tourism, tourist, tower, weekend
The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: arn, Arn Magnusson, banking, baphomet, baptist, battle, byzantine, De Nogaret, empire, fiction, france, google, Guillou, head, invade, Iran, jewish, jews, John, king, Knightfall, knights, Landry, lending, Manzikert, money, OSMTH, Philip, real, saint, saints, search, seljuk, Sverige, sweden, Swedish, Templar, term, today, war, worship
The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus was central to Christian belief. This was the idea that God had taken human form, had performed miracles and given sermons while alive and then had sacrificed himself to the most degrading form of…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, christ, crucifixion, Easter, faith, jesus, Latin, medieval, middle ages, religion, risen, Templar, Whitsun
On the back of the throne of Saint Peter in the Vatican there appears to be a Muslim inscription that has been kept secret
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: basilica, byzantine, Charles the Bald, crusader, Islam, Muhammad, pope, Prophet, rome, san pietro di castello, Shahadah, St Peters, Templar, throne
One of the worst atrocities committed in the name of religion must surely be the sacking of Constantinople by Christian crusaders in the year 1204. This was a shameful episode in the history of Venice. It saw crusaders in the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: battle, byzantine, Catholic Church, constantinople, crusade, Dandolo, destroy, diocletian, doge, horses, innocent, muslim, pillage, plunder, pope, prison, rape, San Marco, Templar, tetrarch, Venice, war
A Christian city destroyed by Christian crusaders – such was the fate of Constantinople. It had resisted waves of invaders from Bulgars to Russians and the Muslim emirates. But it was brought to its knees by people it should have…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, blind, byzantine, constantinople, crusade, Dandolo, doge, empire, Fourth Crusade, Hagia Sophia, istanbul, middle ages, Venice
In the year 1095, Pope Urban II addressed a huge crowd at the town of Clermont in France and urged them to do something new and very exciting – to march east and fight the forces of Islam. Something terrible…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1099, byzantine, ByzantineEmpire, constantinople, crusade, Fatimid, Islam, jerusalem, middle east, muslim, Pope Urban, Pope Urban II, seljuk, Templar
From the middle of the twelfth century AD, the crusaders began looking at Egypt as the territory they had to annex if their venture was to have any chance of success. I say “Egypt” but of course the nation that…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baghdad, byzantine, Cairo, Caliphate, crusader, egypt, Fatimid, Fatimid Caliphate, Islam, jerusalem, shia, sunni
Here they are – the TOP baddies of the Middle Ages! KING JOHN OF ENGLAND Took on the barons and lost, then made to sign Magna Carta Excommunicated by the Pope Mislaid the crown jewels in a marshy swamp Fled…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Andronikos, Barbarossa, battle, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, children, constantinople, crusades, Dandolo, Dante, destroy, doge, emperor, Enrico, experiment, fair, Fourth Crusade, france, Frederick, Honorius, John King of England, king john, knight, Knightfall, Komnenos, Magna Carta, Medieval, Philip, pope, Pope Honorius III, siege, Templar, templars, torture, war
