The Ark of the Covenant fascinated the Knights Templar but Tony McMahon sets out to discover why it has been missing for 2,500 years
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Ark, Ark of the Covenant, Babylon, built, Commandments, covenant, death, electricity, ethiopia, holy of holies, Indiana Jones, Jeremiah, jerusalem, jesus, jewish, jews, knights, Moses, Mount, Nebo, Nebuchadnezzar, nuclear, Old Testament, Petra, Philistine, Philistines, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Romans, Samuel, Solomon, Templar, Temple, Titus, Vespasian
In the Suffolk village of Kedlington in England there are ten elm trees that may have been planted on the bodies of ten dead Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cemetery, dead, death, East Anglia, elm, elms, england, france, Grail, graveyard, Kedlington, king, knight, knights, knights templar, Medieval, Norfolk, payens, suffolk, Templar, Temple, today, treasure, trial
King Philip of France who crushed the Knights Templar had his body dug up and treated like garbage – was this the final revenge of the Knights?
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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
It still makes me feel sick. I got to visit Notre Dame cathedral twice in early 2019 just days before fire ripped through this medieval gem. Anybody who walked through that vast nave will know what a catastrophe this must…
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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
