There are Templar influences in Game of Thrones if you look closely enough as Templar expert Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: bay, byzantine, Cathar, christian, comparison, constantinople, Dorne, empire, fantasy, game of thrones, george, George R. R. Martin, High Sparrow, history, iconoclasm, iconoclast, J R R Tolkein, king, Kingdom, knight, Knights Templar, Martin, Medieval, middle ages, Night's Watch, Nights, Qarth, queen, Roses, Seville, slaver, Templar, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein, true, war, Westeros
Tony McMahon investigates whether the Knights Templar worshipped a head as they were accused of in their trial
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Category: Templar History
Tags: accusation, baphomet, cat, Cathar, christ, devil, esoteric, face, faces, game of thrones, goth, head, jesus, knight, magic, many, payens, satan, spell, Templar, trial, venerate, worship
This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular Templar blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
Knightfall will be with you soon! Winter is coming – but courtesy of the History Channel, it will be a Templar winter. Forget the dragons and white walkers, give me the Knights Templar any day of the week. Here is…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Ark, bear, bearded history, buried, catholic, covenant, faith, game of thrones, history bear, History Channel, Holy Grail, jesus, Knightfall, knights, lgbt, Magdalene, Targaryan, Templar, tunnel, winter
One of the amazing locations for Game of Thrones was the city of Split. You can see below a film from my 2016 visit to that great historical site. What makes Split so interesting is that the entire place is…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: CGI, croatia, Dubrovnik, game, game of thrones, HBO, location, medieval, Shame, Split, Thrones
The Ten Best TV Series set in the medieval period from The Last Kingdom to Vikings and Game of Thrones – you choose your favourite!
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Category: Templar News
Tags: battle, BBC, buried, da vinci, demons, Devil's Crown, england, game, game of thrones, HBO, history, History Channel, Ivanhoe, Ken Follett, kings, Knightfall, Knights Templar, middle ages, Netflix, Outlaw king, pillars of the earth, Scott, templars, The Last Kingdom, The Tudors, Thrones, tudors, TV, Vikings, Walter
Movie after movie with a great medieval battle scene – Tony McMahon looks at the best of these historical hack ‘n slash pictures at the cinema
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 13th Warrior, arn, Bastards, battle, Battle of Montgisard, braveheart, game of thrones, History Channel, Horns of Hattin, Islam, Joan of Arc, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, Lord of the Rings, Maleficent, medieval, movie, Vikings