A grim reminder of the pogroms that accompanied the crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries in Europe has been the gruesome discovery in England of seventeen skeletons in a medieval well. The skeletons, jumbled together, have been subjected to…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: anti-semitism, blood libel, Catholic, faith, History of the Jews in Hungary, hugh of lincoln, hungary, Islam, jew, jews, Jobbik, judaism, norwich, pogrom, Politics of Hungary, Prioress' Tale, Templar, william of norwich
In the Middle Ages, it was believed that Jesus worked as a miner in England and that his uncle Joseph of Arimathea brought the Holy Grail to Somerset
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: avalon, england, faith, glastonbury, Holy Grail, jesus, Joseph, joseph of arimathea, king arthur, Knightfall, knights, miner, monks, mystery, Priddy, quest, religion, secret, somerset, Templar, treasure, tunnel
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
A cautionary medieval tale about the dangers of drinking with the Devil
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Some believe that the Knights Templar were dabbling in the dark magical arts of the Kabbalah
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: crusade, faith, god, israel, jew, jewish, kabala, kabbalah, kalala, magic, mystery, Raziel, Templar, zodiac
There are a whole load of other gospels apart from the four we know and they give a very different account of Jesus
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: apocrypha, Bart, bart ehrman, bible, body, Catholic, christianity, copt, crucifixion, death, ebionites, Ehrman, Essenes, faith, flesh, gospel, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Thomas, jesus, marcionites, Mary Magdalene, Peter, resurrection, Thomas
Following my post on the Templar stronghold of Tomar in Portugal – here is a video imagining what Tomar would have been like at the height of a Templar power. Enjoy!
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Crusades began with the senseless massacre of Jewish people in Europe identified by mobs as being infidels like the Saracens
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, Archbishop, crusade, culture, faith, First Crusade, germany, history, Holy Land, Islam, jew, Jewish population, jews, judaism, Mainz, medieval, Moses, religion
The French king crushed the Knights Templar as we all know. But not every monarch wanted to destroy the order. In fact, in England, there seems to have been initial reticence to putting the Knights Templar on trial. Templar doom…
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The conquest of Jerusalem in the year 1099 was, by any standards, a war crime. Even those who wrote about it at the time were taken aback by the ferocity of the onslaught by Prince Tancred. The city’s Muslim, Jewish…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, bezants, blood, Chartres, conquest, crusade, faith, Fulk, god, history, Islam, israel, jerusalem, massacre, medieval, Templar