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, 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
If you have never seen The Seventh Seal – then watch it. A tortured medieval knight is played by a very young Max von Sydow, who you may have seen in The Minority Report and other movies. In this scene,…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: actor, chess, cinema, death, Film, Max, movie, sweden, Swedish, Sydow, Templar, The Seventh Seal, vintage, von
The walking dead in the Middle Ages
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So you know everything there is to know about the Knights Templar – well, watch this short film and see how smart you really are. And tell me what facts you would include in future films!
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Category: Templar History
Tags: angevin, Arab, buried, crusade, death, history, History Channel, Islam, knight, medieval, middle ages, muslim, mystery, norman, plantagenat, saladin, slavery, squirt, Templar, today
Pumpkins, trick or treat and witch costumes. We all know about modern Halloween – but how might a Templar knight have celebrated Halloween hundreds of years ago? Back in the early Middle Ages, the day we now call Halloween was…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: All Saints, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Catholic Church, Celt, christian, death, evil, Halloween, Holiday, horror, medieval, middle ages, origin, Samhain, Trick or Treat
Corrupt and evil popes through history
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Tags: benedict, bertone, Borgia, buried, butler, Cadaver Synod, Cesare Borgia, corrupt, crown, death, gabriele, Holy See, John Paul I, Knightfall, knights, murder, pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Roberto Calvi, rome, secret, Stefano Infessura, Templar, vatican, Vatican City
