In February and March this year (2019), I was in Paris researching a TV programme and made two visits inside Notre Dame cathedral. It’s as unmissable a monument at the very heart of Paris as it has been for over…
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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
The English occultist Aleister Crowley helped found a group that claimed to be influenced by the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: aleister crowley, baphomet, Black Sabbath, Blizzard, buried, crowley, gnostic, goth, head, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, magic, magick, occult, Ordo, Ozz, Ozzy Osbourne, sex, Spermo-Gnostic, Templar, today, worship
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
The Knights Templar were often said to be on a hunt for the passion relics of Jesus including the Holy Grail
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, Catholic, christ, column, cross, crown, crucifixion, flagellation, good thief, Grail, history, Holy Grail, jerusalem, jesus, knight, Knightfall, Knights Templar, lance, Longinus, nail, passion relic, rome, series, Templar, thorns, true, truth, TV, veil, Veronica
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
Tony McMahon searches for the exact spot where Templar grand master Jacques de Molay was executed in Paris
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, 1314, Île de la Cité, bridge, buried, burning, death, execution, expert, grand master, historian, history, jacques de molay, knight, Knightfall, mcmahon, monument, paris, place, Pont Neuf, site, stake, Templar, today, Tony, trial
This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular 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
Templar expert Tony McMahon examines how loyal and brave the Knights Templar actually were in reality
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ascalon, Ashkelon, battle, beausant, brave, bravery, buried, burnt, de molay, De Tramelay, Foreign Legion, history, Holy Land, hype, Islam, jerusalem, knight, Knightfall, knights, loyalty, military, Montgisard, muslim, nine, rule, saladin, saracen, SAS, Spartan, stake, standard, Templar, templars, Tremelay, tyre, war, William
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at whether the knights buried their treasure on Oak Island off the coast of Nova Scotia
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 2 million, 30 hours, buried, Captain Kidd, curse, Daniel, Daniel McGinnis, depression, finds, Franklin, history, Island, Kidd, lights, map, Marty Lagina, McGinnis, money, mystery, National Treasure, Nicholas Cage, Oak, Onslow, pirate, pit, Rick Lagina, Robert Louis Stevenson, Roosevelt, rosslyn, Saint-Clair, sinclair, St Clair, Steven Sora, thirty, treasure, two million, Vinland, X, Zeno
Templar expert Tony McMahon guides you on finding your Templar ancestors in England, Ireland and Scotland using online resources and local parish records
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Category: Templar News
Tags: ago, alive, ancestor, ancestors, ancestry, ancestry dot com, Ancestry.com, antecedent, aunt, Balantrodoch, book, burnt, chapel, cousin, daughter, dead, destroyed, Domesday, family, find, genealogy, generation, Grand, great, Guildhall, historic, history, ireland, knight, knights, livery, London, long, medieval, MyHeritage, names, online, parent, past, places, probate, removed, resource, rosslyn, Scotland, site, son, Templar, time, tree, uncle, wales
