Medieval Girl Power was at the centre of the Cathar heresy that shook the Pope and Rome to its foundations, as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
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Much of what we read about the Knights Templar has come from voices since the Order was suppressed in 1307 and there’s a mixture of valid and truthful observations mixed up with complete hokum. So – what did folks at…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Benedictine, bernard, betrayal, brotherhood, Chronicle, chronicler, cistercian, crusades, damned, Dominican, jerusalem, John of Salisbury, knights, Matthew Paris, medieval, praise, Templar, templars, treason, trial, Walter Map, William of Tyre
There were Knights Templar in Ireland and they prospered for a while until, like everywhere else, they were imprisoned and put on trial
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Category: Templar History
Tags: castle, Clontarf, Dominican, Dublin, estate, franciscan, Henry II, ireland, knights, Michael Carroll, suppression, Templar, trial
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