The Templar Knight
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Mogadouro – a Templar stronghold in northern Portugal
A visit to the Templar castle in Mogadouro in north east Portugal
Read MoreNewark Castle – where Templar knights were imprisoned
I must confess to having known little to nothing about Newark Castle in Nottinghamshire until the announcement this month that it will be hosting an exhibition on the Knights Templar. Why an exhibition here? Well, several knights were imprisoned down…
Read MoreAl-Karak – crusader jewel in Jordan
The castle of Al-Karak in Jordan – الكرك – الأردن – was visited by my good self in 2013. It is one of the great crusader forts still standing in the region. Unfortunately, three years after my visit, ISIS terrorists…
Read MoreNimrod Fortress in the Holy Land
Driving through the Golan Heights in northern Israel I glimpsed a huge fortress up in the hills and asked my local guide what it was. He told me that it was a crusader castle named after the biblical character Nimrod….
Read MoreWhere did a Templar go to the toilet?
There’s some widely held misconceptions about how filthy people were in the Middle Ages. A common view is that nobody washed and worse still…defecated or urinated wherever they wanted. The truth is actually surprisingly different. At the castle of Acre…
Read MoreHorrible things that happened in medieval sieges!
Some of the brutality and horror that used to occur during medieval sieges to intimidate the enemy
Read MoreKnight roasted to death in his armour
The horror for medieval knights of being roasted to death in their metal armour
Read MoreHow the Knights Templar came to be in Ireland
There were Knights Templar in Ireland and they prospered for a while until, like everywhere else, they were imprisoned and put on trial
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