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RESEARCH RESULTS: What fascinates YOU about the Knights Templar!

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Tony McMahon

Tony McMahon looks at what fascinates people about the Knights Templar including the bloodline of Jesus and their reputed treasure

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Category: Templar News Tags: 13, 1307, 13th, ancestor, ancestry, Ancestry.com, Baignet, blood, bloodline, brotherhood, Carolingian, catholic, cave, Dan Brown, dynasty, era, execution, family, finance, financier, freemason, friday, genealogy, Grail, holy, initiation, jerusalem, knight, Lincoln, loyalty, medieval, merovingian, modern day, money, rite, roots, Templar, templars, today, today's, treasure, tree, trial, well

Knights Templar demand Vatican apology for executions

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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Pope Benedict was asked to apologise for the execution of Jacques de Molay by modern day Templars

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Category: Templar History Tags: apology, benedict, de molay, execution, pope, rome, templars

Horrible things that happened in medieval sieges!

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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Some of the brutality and horror that used to occur during medieval sieges to intimidate the enemy

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Category: Templar History Tags: army, battle, buried, castle, crusades, death, destruction, execution, faith, First Crusade, Gascony, history, hunger, Knightfall, knights, Medieval, Middle Age, military, siege, Templar, templars, torture, violence, war

Yorkshire Templars arrested in fateful year of 1308

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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The arrest of the Templars at Temple Newsam in Yorkshire came as a shock to the knights because they had got on very well with the king’s father

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Category: Templar History Tags: arrest, Edward I, Edward II, execution, Knightfall, knights, Leeds, Newsam, religion, Scotland, Templar, Temple, torture, Yorkshire

What happened to all the Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain and Portugal?

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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The way in which most Jews and Muslims in Spain were forced to either convert or die

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Category: Templar History Tags: baptism, bishop, Catholic, conversion, convert, death, execution, forced, history, infidel, Inquisition, Islam, jews, Muslims, pagan, persecution, pope, revert