There wasn’t just one crusade but multiple crusades in medieval Europe from modern Spain all the way up to Russia as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, Albigensian, armor, armour, Baltics, battle, Cathar, constantinople, crusade, crusades, Cyprus, Dandolo, doge, fourth, heresy, Holy Land, Iberian, indulgence, innocent, knight, knights, Medieval, Moors, pagan, papal, plenary, pope, Templar, Teutonic, Venice
Medieval Girl Power was at the centre of the Cathar heresy that shook the Pope and Rome to its foundations, as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Aude, Carcassone, Cathar, credente, crusade, debate, Dominic, Dominican, Esclarmonde, execution, Fanjeaux, female, Foix, france, girl power, heresy, Inquisition, Knightfall, Mazerolles, Medieval, Nogaret, Parzival, perfect, Raymonde, spies, spy, Templar, torture, Toulouse, women
The BBC is broadcasting a new TV series based on The Name of the Rose – a fantastic novel by the late Italian author Umberto Eco. It tells the story of a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville, who visits an…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baskerville, Bernardo, Bernardo Gui, burning, Catholic, church, Conrad, death, Foucault's Pendulum, friars, Gui, heresy, heretic, innocent, Inquisition, Islam, jewish, knight, Konrad, Marburg, monks, murder, muslim, Name, name of the rose, Pendulum, poison, pope, Rose, Salvatore, sin, stake, Talmud, Templar, Tomás, Torquemada, umberto eco, William
Was the order of the Knights Templar a bunch of magicians or heretics? Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, divine, guilty, heresy, heretics, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, magician, magicians, Medieval, modern, Nogaret, occult, sorcery, Templar, templars, today, wicca, witch, witches
The insane theory developed by the Nazis linking Atlantis, Aryan racial theory and the Templars
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: apes, Aryan, Atlantean, Atlantis, Cathar, Chateau, cosmic, Darwin, Earth, Einstein, evolution, Hans Hörbiger, heresy, Himmler, hitler, Horbiger, ice, meteor, nazi, planet, racist, relativity, Rennes, Templar, tomar, World
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
The Knights Templar have been accused of being gnostic and Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, Abraxas, Albigensian, Arian, assassin, bernard, Cathar, catholic, church, Clairvaux, crusade, gnostic, heresy, heretical, innocent, Inquisition, Ismaili, knights, man, medieval, Montferrat, mountain, murder, myth, Nogaret, old, Plato, pope, Puylaurens, rome, saladin, shia, Soumrak templářů, Templar, Toulouse, Waldensian
The Knights Templar were accused of heresy – one of the worst crimes in the Middle Ages which had dire consequences
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Bogomil, burned, burnt, Cathar, catholic, church, Clement, Grand, heresy, Hussite, jacques de molay, knight, knights, Master, medieval, molay, Nogaret, Notre Dame, Pelagius, Philip, Seth, stake, teaching, Templar, templars
Last month I was in Rome and one theme of my trip was looking at pagan temples of the Roman period that were then converted into Christian churches during the Middle Ages. Here we see how the Temple to Faustina…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: antoninus, catholic, church, faustina, forum, god, heresy, lorenzo, miranda, mystic, pagan, pius, Religion and Spirituality, san, Temple
There were links between the Knights Templar and the Cathars or Albigensian heresy that might explain why the King of France crushed the Templars
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, buried, Cathar, Catharism, catholic, Catholic Church, channel, christianity, Clement, crusade, De Nogaret, drama, dualism, dualist, fish, france, gnostic, god, heresy, heretic, history, innocent, Knightfall, Languedoc, Mani, meat, middle east, Philip, pope, priory of sion, Rex Deus, Saint Peter, series, sex