Women are often seen as playing a passive role in great political and religious movements – but nothing could be further from the truth – even in the Middle Ages! Because it was some very powerful and resourceful females who…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Aude, Carcassone, Cathar, credente, crusade, debate, Dominic, Dominican, Esclarmonde, execution, Fanjeaux, female, Foix, france, heresy, Inquisition, Knightfall, Mazerolles, Nogaret, Parzival, perfect, Raymonde, spies, spy, Templar, torture, Toulouse, women
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
Tony McMahon investigates whether the Knights Templar worshipped a head as they were accused of in their trial
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Category: Templar History
Tags: accusation, baphomet, cat, Cathar, christ, devil, esoteric, face, faces, game of thrones, goth, head, jesus, knight, magic, many, payens, satan, spell, Templar, trial, venerate, worship
The insane theory developed by the Nazis linking Atlantis, Aryan racial theory and the Templars
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: apes, Aryan, Atlantean, Atlantis, Cathar, Chateau, cosmic, Darwin, Earth, Einstein, evolution, Hans Hörbiger, heresy, Himmler, hitler, Horbiger, ice, meteor, nazi, planet, racist, relativity, Rennes, Templar, tomar, World
William De Nogaret is a leading character in Knightfall – but who was he in real life?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, Cathar, corrupt, france, Guillaume, history, Holy Grail, Julian Ovenden, Knightfall, knights, money, murder, news, Nogaret, Philip, pope, rome, Templar, today, treasure, William
The Knights Templar have been accused of being gnostic and Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, Abraxas, Albigensian, Arian, assassin, bernard, Cathar, catholic, church, Clairvaux, crusade, gnostic, heresy, heretical, innocent, Inquisition, Ismaili, knights, man, medieval, Montferrat, mountain, murder, myth, Nogaret, old, Plato, pope, Puylaurens, rome, saladin, shia, Soumrak templářů, Templar, Toulouse, Waldensian
The Knights Templar were accused of rejecting the divinity of Christ, spitting on the crucifix, not believing the church sacraments and conducting their own masses without a properly consecrated priest. They emerged in France in the 12th century at the…
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Philip the Fair issued orders to arrest every Templar knight but what exactly were the charges and why did he take such action?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baphomet, baptist, Cathar, Catharism, faith, head, history, historychannel, Islam, Knight Templar, Philip IV of France, Templar, trial
The Knights Templar were accused of being heretics by the Catholic church after two centuries of loyal service to…..the Catholic church! But the church had been busy rooting out and slaying heretics for hundreds of years before the Templars were…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Bogomil, burned, burnt, Cathar, catholic, church, Grand, heresy, Hussite, jacques de molay, knights, Master, medieval, molay, Notre Dame, Pelagius, Seth, stake, teaching, Templar
A look at the best medieval walled cities in the world
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 19th, Carcassone, Cathar, century, Chapelle, Denis, Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, fake, false, London, medieval, nineteenth, Notre Dame, Obidos, restoration, saint, Southampton, Templar, tomar, Viollet-le-Duc, walls, York
