The Basilica of St Denis was the last resting place of the Kings and Queens of France – until they were exhumed in the French Revolution as Tony McMahon discovered
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Category: Templar History
Tags: banlieue, basilica, basilique, beau, burial, church, death, eglise, exhumed, fair, france, history, killed, kings, paris, Philip, queens, revolution, St Denis
Tony McMahon looks at evidence that the Knights Templar were infiltrated by spies sent in by the King of France
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, 13th, arrest, buried, burning, de molay, De Nogaret, death, discovery, evidence, execution, france, friday, Guillaume, head, history, Knightfall, knights, Medieval, minister, moles, Philip, spies, Templar, templars, today, torture, trial, William
The BBC is broadcasting a new TV series based on The Name of the Rose – a fantastic novel by the late Italian author Umberto Eco. It tells the story of a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville, who visits an…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baskerville, Bernardo, Bernardo Gui, burning, Catholic, church, Conrad, death, Foucault's Pendulum, friars, Gui, heresy, heretic, innocent, Inquisition, Islam, jewish, knight, Konrad, Marburg, monks, murder, muslim, Name, name of the rose, Pendulum, poison, pope, Rose, Salvatore, sin, stake, Talmud, Templar, Tomás, Torquemada, umberto eco, William
In February and March this year (2019), I was in Paris researching a TV programme and made two visits inside Notre Dame cathedral. It’s as unmissable a monument at the very heart of Paris as it has been for over…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: accident, arson, cathedral, damage, death, emblem, fire, flames, future, history, knight, Macron, Medieval, Notre Dame, paris, past, repair, revolution, roof, spire, Templar, today, tower, wooden
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation
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Category: Templar History
Tags: ban, body, boil, burial, buried, cook, dead, death, deflesh, defleshing, emperor, eviscerate, evisceration, excarnation, fire, flesh, history, kill, king, Knightfall, murder, noble, pope, skeleton, strip, Templar, today, zombie
Tony McMahon searches for the exact spot where Templar grand master Jacques de Molay was executed in Paris
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, 1314, Île de la Cité, bridge, buried, burning, death, execution, expert, grand master, historian, history, jacques de molay, knight, Knightfall, mcmahon, monument, paris, place, Pont Neuf, site, stake, Templar, today, Tony, trial
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 murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: altar, assassin, assassination, becket, beckett, canterbury, death, FitzUrse, henry, ireland, jerusalem, John, killed, knight, lionheart, mcmahon, Medieval, money, murder, richard, saint, Templar, Thomas, thomas a becket, treasure, veneration
Episode 2 of Knightfall – the plot so far
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Boniface, buried, Catalan, death, england, fact, Grail, history, holy, Isabella, Knightfall, knights, Landry, marriage, medieval, middle ages, Nogaret, paris, pope, real, reality, Templar, templars, today, true
In 1307, the Knights Templar were rounded up, imprisoned and tortured under secret orders issued by the King of France. The trials of top Templars would last for years and lead to many being burnt at the stake including the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, accusations, baphomet, burn, catholic, christ, cross, crucifix, crush, death, deny, destroy, end, financial, france, head, homosexuality, idol, Jacques, king, kiss, knights templar, molay, paris, Philip, Sacrament, sodomy, Soumrak templářů, templars, trial, urinate, worship
