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Did most people think the Templars were guilty?

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Tony McMahon

In 1307, arrest warrants were issued for the Knights Templar from the King of France on charges of heresy, sodomy and conspiracy. This led to the trial over a seven year period of many knights including the leaders of the…

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Category: Templar History Tags: Boccaccio, Boniface, burnt, Dante, Divine Comedy, fire, florence, france, Giovanni, guilty, italy, knight, Knightfall, Llull, stake, Templar, templars, trial

My visit to Notre Dame before the fire

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Tony McMahon

It still makes me feel sick. I got to visit Notre Dame cathedral twice in early 2019 just days before fire ripped through this medieval gem. Anybody who walked through that vast nave will know what a catastrophe this must…

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Category: Templar News Tags: accident, arson, cathedral, damage, death, emblem, fire, flames, future, history, knight, Macron, Medieval, Notre Dame, paris, past, repair, revolution, roof, spire, Templar, today, tower, wooden

Why were bodies defleshed in the Crusades?

Posted on February 9, 2019 by Tony McMahon

Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation

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Category: Templar History Tags: ban, body, boil, burial, buried, cook, dead, death, deflesh, defleshing, emperor, eviscerate, evisceration, excarnation, fire, flesh, history, kill, king, Knightfall, murder, noble, pope, skeleton, strip, Templar, today, zombie