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
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 latest news on Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame playing a Templar knight in Knightfall on the History channel
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Category: Templar News
Tags: buried, crusade, france, Hamill, hammil, hammill, history, king, knight, Knightfall, Landry, Mark, Nogaret, paris, Philip, queen, season, series, Star Wars, Talus, Temple, TV, war, Warrior
A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cannibal, cannibalism, christian, cook, crusade, crusades, death, Disease, eat, human, Islam, jewish, knighs, massacre, meat, Medieval, moor, muslim, plague, pogrom, pot, Rhineland, saracen, serf, starving, tafur, Tafurs, Templar, tyre, William
The Knight Templar event at the Bradford Literature Festival chaired by Remona Aly with speakers Helen Nicholson and Tony McMahon was a huge success on 30 June 2018
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Category: Templar News
Tags: author, book, Bradford, Cardiff, crusade, festival, Helen Nicholson, history, knight, Literature, mcmahon, medieval, movies, mystery, Quest for the True Cross, Remona Aly, secret, studies, Templar, treasure, university, Watersone's, Waterstones
Why the Chinon Parchment found in the secret Vatican archives does not exonerate the Knights Templar from the charge of heresy
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 13, 1307, 13th, buried, chinon, christ, Clement, cross, crucifix, crusade, de molay, Frale, france, friday, jesus, king, Knightfall, knights templar, medieval, molay, parchment, Philip, pope, secret, spit, spitting, Templar, trial, vatican
How White Supremacists and Islamist extremists exploit the Middle Ages for their own political gain
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Category: Templar History
Tags: al aqsa, al qaeda, alt-right, Anders Breivik, Caliphate, Charlottesville, crusade, Daesh, Deus Vult, extreme, far right, ISIS, Islam, jerusalem, jihad, khawarij, knights, koran, medieval, middle ages, mosque, muslim, Non Nobis Domine, Ottoman Empire, Quran, racism, racist, right, salafi, saracen, Solomon, supremacist, takfir, Templar, Wahabbi, white
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 former Templar stronghold of Acre in modern Israel has been throwing up some interesting discoveries of late. Templar treasure? A team from Haifa University found the wreck of a long lost crusader ship in the bay with a horde…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Acre, bay, crusade, crusaders, discovery, gold, Haifa, israel, ship, Templar, Templar knights, Teutonic, university
If the Knights Templar had vast wealth – then where did all this treasure disappear to? It’s a question that’s vexed many down the ages. The Templars were warriors, monks and medieval bankers. They ran a financial system through their…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: al aqsa, cave, crusade, england, escape, france, hidden, history, jerusalem, medieval, money, newport, Oak Island, paris, pit, rosslyn, ship, Solomon, Templar, Temple, treasure, tunnel, westford
