The Templar Knight
Mysteries of the Knights Templar
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The Templar Knight will feature shortly on the History Channel – keep your eyes peeled!
Tony McMahon joins the History channel team on the documentary series Buried to investigate the Knights Templar in Portugal searching for buried treasure
Read MoreFive movies that feature the Knights Templar
Tony McMahon looks at five movies that feature the Knights Templar in their plots from 1972 to the present day
Read MoreKNIGHTFALL character profile: William De Nogaret
William De Nogaret is a leading character in Knightfall – but who was he in real life?
Read MoreWere the Knights Templar really the guardians of the Holy Grail?
Were the Knights Templar really the guardians of the Holy Grail?
Read MoreThe man behind the theory of the Da Vinci Code
The whole fascination with the alleged bloodline of Jesus and the Templar association with the Holy Grail goes back hundreds of years. But in relatively recent times, the 1970s to be exact, there was a huge surge of interest in…
Read MoreWinter is coming! But it’s a Templar winter, not a Targaryan one!
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 the trailer for the series you…
Read MoreJoseph of Arimathea and the Knights Templar
To understand why the Knights Templar based themselves in the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, the mysterious biblical figure of Joseph of Arimathea is worth knowing. He was, according to the Gospel of John, a secret disciple of Jesus –…
Read MoreDid the Templars find anything under the Temple of Solomon?
The nine knights who founded the Knights Templar petitioned the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1119 to establish their headquarters in what had been the Al Aqsa mosque – before the crusaders seized the city in 1099, putting an end to…
Read MoreSpain and Portugal – battle ground between Islam and Christianity
Say the word “Crusades” to many people and they automatically think of the Holy Land, Syria and Egypt. The wars between Christian knights and Muslim warriors are seen entirely as a violent confrontation that took place only in the Middle…
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