During the Crusades a Knight Templar and a Muslim sultan became blood brothers as Tony McMahon discovers a strong, unlikely friendship
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baibars, Baybars, blood brother, bond, crusades, egypt, Knight Templar, saracen, Sauvage, sultan, syria, Templar, templars, William of Tyre
King Louis IX spent more time on crusades than governing the kingdom of France but he was made a saint as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ayyubid, Chapelle, crown of thorns, Damietta, dysentery, egypt, louis, Louis IX, Mamluk, mongol, paris, passion relics, saint, sainte
For centuries, it’s been alleged that the Knights Templar had secret initiation rites through which a young man joined this order of holy warriors. Some allege the Templars used rituals from the Cathar heresy – a variant of Christianity condemned…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Ancient, barbara frale, bottom, brother, brotherhood, cave, christ, clandestine, cross, crucifix, deny, egypt, faith, gay, head, history, homosexual, illegal, initiation, initiation rites, Islam, kiss, kissing, knights, medieval, occult, rites, secret, sodomy, spine, spitting, Templar, underground, worship
Templar expert Tony McMahon on a visit to a medieval castle in Jordan found evidence that bombs were used in the medieval Crusades
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Category: Templar News
Tags: battle, bombs, crusade, crusades, egypt, incendiary, israel, jordan, lebanon, Levant, Medieval, saladin, syria, war
Gadara is a biblical city that was part of the Decapolis and where Jesus cured two people. It has black basalt Roman remains that are distinctive.
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Category: Templar History
Tags: basalt, black, cure, Decapolis, demoniacs, demons, egypt, Gadara, iraq, israel, jesus, jordan, lebanon, miracle, Saudi Arabia, syria
It’s one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Crusades. What looks an unprovoked attack by the Knights Templar on a group of Assassins who had been talking peace terms with the crusader King of Jerusalem. What led the Templars…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: air, assassin, broadcast, buried, christianity, crusades, Daesh, discovery, egypt, History Channel, Knight Templar, Knightfall, muslim, Old Man of the Mountain, Templar, TV
A Turcopole was a lightly armed auxiliary recruited in the east by the Knights Templar to supplement their fighting ability in the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: christian, discovery, egypt, History Channel, Islam, islamophobia, jerusalem, jordan, Knight Templar, Knightfall, middle east, Pathros, Seljuq dynasty, syria, Templar, Turcopole, turk
Egypt was as much a target for Crusader and Knight Templar activity as other parts of the Middle East as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baghdad, byzantine, Cairo, Caliphate, crusader, egypt, Fatimid, Fatimid Caliphate, Islam, jerusalem, shia, sunni
You all know about Saint George and the Dragon and if you’re English, you’ll be aware that he is the patron saint of England. But there’s a lot more to this saint who was venerated in the Middle Ages. How…
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The crusaders and Knights Templar suffered a horrific defeat at the Battle of Hattin and Tony McMahon examines the Saracen point of view of their victory
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Aleppo, allah, battle of hattin, egypt, Franks, Galilee, Horns of Hattin, Islam, israel, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, lebanon, muslim, orlando bloom, point of view, Raynald of Châtillon, Reynald, saladin, saracen, syria, Templar, Tiberias, ummah
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