It’s often claimed that the Knights Templar were the first bankers or financiers so Tony McMahon investigates whether this is actually true
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Category: Templar History
Tags: banking, banks, bullion, buried, cheque, china, Chinese, christian, crown, crusades, deposit, fair, fairs, finance, france, Genoa, gold, henry III, hidden, Islam, islamic, jewels, king, Knightfall, knights, medieval, money, Oleron, paris, Philip, sector, Swiss, switzerland, templars, treasure, Troyes, Venice
King Philip of France is a leading character in Knightfall – but who was he in real life?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: actor, burn, destroy, drama, Ed Stoppard, fair, france, french, history, Knightfall, knights, medieval, monarch, Philip, Philip the Fair, Phillip, Templar, today
It’s one of those weeks again when a Friday the 13th occurs and our thoughts turn to the Knights Templar. So why is Friday the 13th so significant? On the morning of Friday the 13th October 1307, a huge dawn…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 13th, bailiff, buried, Dungeon, fair, Forbidden History, france, friday, Grand, heresy, king, Knightfall, knights, Master, medieval, molay, Nogaret, Philip, sodomy, Templar, today, torture
Pope Clement V, the pope who crushed the Knights Templar, was based in Avignon
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Category: Templar History
Tags: avignon, Clement V, Czech, dark, fair, initiation, knight, knights, palace, palais, papal, papes, Philip, pope, rite, room, secret, Soumrak templářů, Templar, templars, today, tunnel
Here they are – the TOP baddies of the Middle Ages! KING JOHN OF ENGLAND Took on the barons and lost, then made to sign Magna Carta Excommunicated by the Pope Mislaid the crown jewels in a marshy swamp Fled…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Andronikos, Barbarossa, battle, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, children, constantinople, crusades, Dandolo, Dante, destroy, doge, emperor, Enrico, experiment, fair, Fourth Crusade, france, Frederick, Honorius, John King of England, king john, knight, Knightfall, Komnenos, Magna Carta, Medieval, Philip, pope, Pope Honorius III, siege, Templar, templars, torture, war
Les Rois Maudits is a French television series that looks at why King Philip of France arrested the Knights Templar
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King Philip of France, as depicted in Knightfall, crushed the Templars because he was short of money
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 13th, accusations, booty, debt, fair, friday, jewish, jews, king, knights, La Rochelle, Lombard, loot, merchant, money, Philip, pogrom, Templar, Temple, trial, wealth
Here is the timeline for the arrest, trial and execution of the Knights Templar from the year 1307 onwards
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 13, 1307, burnt, chinon, Clement, fair, friday, Friday 13th, Grand, Holy Grail, jacques de molay, king, Knightfall, Knights Templar, Master, parchment, Philip IV of France, pope, stake, Templar, trial
