Mary Becket was the sister of Saint Thomas Becket and an unsung hero who created a leper colony in London as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abbess, America Unearthed, Archbishop of Canterbury, Barking, borough, chapel, Christmas, colony, essex, fact, Forbidden History, heal, healer, history, Ilford, knight, knights, leper, leprosy, Mary Becket, Mary Beckett, medicine, Medieval, murder, murdered, mystery, Redbridge, Scott Wolter, sister, Templar, Thomas
The Knights Templar named a town in England after the Iraqi city of Baghdad because they associated it with prosperity in the 12th century
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baghdad, britain, called, commandery, england, essex, hertfordshire, history, knights, London, Name, preceptory, Templar, Temple, titled, town, UK, United Kingdom, village
This week, in the English wintry sun, I visited a church packed with history – Waltham Abbey. It’s located in the county of Essex, just 15 minutes by train out of London. The church is famous for including the grave…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbey, altar, Augustinian, burial, canon, Canute, chancel, church, cloister, cross, Denny, dissolution, eleanor, england, essex, flint, grave, Harold, Hastings, Henry II, Holy Cross, monasteries, monastery, Montacute, nave, norman, priest, priory, Reformation, Saxon, site, somerset, Templar, tomb, Tovi, Viking, Waltham
Five key places mentioned in the Templar novel Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Abelard, barn, bernard, Clairvaux, Cressing Temple, cross, Dome, Edessa, essex, history, hotspot, jerusalem, knight, knights, lignum crucis, London, medieval, quest, Quest for the True Cross, Rock, saint, Templar, templars, Temple, today, tony mcmahon, True Cross, Witham
Meet Sir William de Mandeville – a Templar hero
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: adventure, book, Cressing, cross, england, essex, Lisbon, Mandeville, murder, novel, Outremer, portugal, quest, siege, Templar, Temple, thriller, true, william de mandeville
You may never have heard of King Edmund of England but you should have. He was killed by the Vikings in ways that were truly dreadful. And his horrific death is marked by an amazing ancient church that is still…
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