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Templars at the guillotine – myth or reality?

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Tony McMahon

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Tony McMahon investigates the alleged link between the Illuminati, Freemasons and Knights Templar sparked by the execution of King Louis XVI in 1793

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Category: Templar Mystery Tags: 1789, 1793, 1796, Amis Reunis, Cagliostro, count, execution, freemason, french, Gassicour, Gassicourt, illuminati, Illuminatus, Le Tombeau de Jacques Molay, lodges, louis, Louis XV, Louis XVI, masonic, molay, necklace, revolution, Templar, tomb

KNIGHTFALL character profile: King Philip of France

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Tony McMahon

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

The medieval glory of… Southampton

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Tony McMahon

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The medieval history of Southampton shows a large influx of Normans and close relationships with France

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Category: Templar History Tags: Daily Life, Directories, English Street, france, french, French Street, history, Luftwaffe, Medieval, middle ages, norman, Septimius Severus, Southampton, World War II

French 1960s Knight Templar TV adventure series

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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I have the vaguest memory of this being shown on British TV back in the 1970s but not entirely sure. Does anybody remember this series called Thibaud Ou Les Croisades ?

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Category: Templar History Tags: 1968, 1970s, british tv, croisades, francais, french, les croisades, thibaud, TV

An English king, the Knights Templar and a pawnbroker

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Tony McMahon

King Henry III pawned his own crown to the Knights Templar in Paris who acted like pawnbrokers giving the king some ready cash in return

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Category: Templar History Tags: angevin, cost, crown, De Montfort, england, french, henry III, jewels, John, Medieval, monarchy, money, paris, pawn, pawnbrokers, Plantagenet, state, Templar, templars, war