Templar expert Tony McMahon reveals the Rule book of the Knights Templar and how it covered everything from eating to praying
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Benedictine, bernard, book, christ, cistercian, Clairvaux, dress, drinking, eating, error, faith, female, food, hair, initiation, join, Knightfall, monastic, monk, obedience, pope, prayer, punishment, rite, rule, sex, Templar, today, women
Who was André de Montbard – fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: André, army, battle, bernard, book, buried, cistercian, Clairvaux, de Montbard, grand master, history, Holy Land, jerusalem, Knightfall, leader, medieval, military, monk, rule, templars
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at Hugh de Payens – founder of the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbey, bernard, Burgundy, Champagne, cistercian, Clairvaux, first, Grand, Hugh, jerusalem, knight, Master, Order, paen, pagan, payens, payns, Templar, Troyes
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
Five key places mentioned in the Templar novel Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Abelard, barn, bernard, Clairvaux, Cressing Temple, cross, Dome, Edessa, essex, history, hotspot, jerusalem, knight, knights, lignum crucis, London, medieval, quest, Quest for the True Cross, Rock, saint, Templar, templars, Temple, today, tony mcmahon, True Cross, Witham
I’ve been asked by many of you – where are today’s Knights Templar? Well, here is an interview with Sir Mark Borrington – Grand Master of The Grand Commandery of Knights Templar and he explains the organisation and the work…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Bernard of Clairvaux, Clairvaux, commandery, Council of Troyes, god, grand master, Hugues, Hugues de Payens, jerusalem, Knight Templar, Templar, UNICEF
Martim Moniz was a Portuguese crusader who fought with the first king of Portugal – Dom Afonso Henriques – when he conquered what was then the Islamic city of Al-Usbuna which would subsequently become the Christian capital of Portugal…Lisbon. Many…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bernard, buried, Clairvaux, crusader, History Channel, Islam, Knightfall, Lisboa, Lisbon, martim, moniz, moor, portugal, Templar
Bernard of Clairvaux was the great spiritual force behind the Templars – the Cistercian ascetic who promoted the Order in its early years and is believed to have largely authored the Rule. As I’m in Jerusalem and have just visited…
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The origins of the Knights Templar are wrapped in mystery. Were they set up by the Priory of Sion or Rex Deus or just a security force protecting pilgrims?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Acre, bernard, Brown, buried, channel, Clairvaux, code, Cyprus, da vinci, Deus, Grail, history, holy, Honorius, Hugh, jerusalem, king, knight, Knightfall, louis, molay, nine, payens, Philip, pope, priory, priory of sion, quest, Rex, Rex Deus, saladin, sion, Solomon, Templar, Troyes, Wallace-Murphy, zion
The Knights Templar adhered to strict rules about tidiness and that included running a model campsite – medieval style
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bernard, camp, campsite, Clairvaux, knights, Medieval, peg, regulations, rule, Templar, templars, tent, tents, tidy
