This is an astonishing story from the Middle Ages of how a vast crusader army on the way to the Holy Land was convinced to divert to Portugal and help a small Christian kingdom take a city called Al-Usbuna from…
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Category: Templar History
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Hard to believe that modern Spain and Portugal were once part of a global caliphate (from 711 CE) – ruled by Muslim emirs. It then became a battleground between Islam and Christianity for eight hundred years. Finally, by 1492, the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, Al-Andalus, Al-usbuna, Al-Usbunna, Andalus, Ark, buried, Caliphate, catholic, conquest, covenant, escape, gualdim, henriques, History Channel, Holy Grail, Knightfall, martim, moniz, moor, Moorish, muslim, pais, portugal, roman, spain, tomar, treasure
The conquest of Jerusalem in the year 1099 was, by any standards, a war crime. Even those who wrote about it at the time were taken aback by the ferocity of the onslaught by Prince Tancred. The city’s Muslim, Jewish…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, bezants, blood, Chartres, conquest, crusade, faith, Fulk, god, history, Islam, israel, jerusalem, massacre, medieval, Templar