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
Who was André de Montbard – fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar?
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Category: Templar History
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Were the Knights Templar really the guardians of the Holy Grail?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: al aqsa, Arimathea, Arthur, Arthurian, Boron, buried, catholic, cauldron, Celtic, Chretien, Clement, cup, Hermann, Holy Grail, Holy Land, jerusalem, jesus, Joseph, king, Knightfall, knights, Kyot, Lancelot, legend, Monmouth, paris, Parzival, Percival, Philip, pope, Provence, Solomon, Templar, Thuringia, Toledo, tomar, Troyes, Wagner, Wolfram von Eschenbach
The Knights Templar got a terrible write up from medieval chroniclers like Walter Map and William of Tyre
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Category: Templar History
Tags: America Unearthed, author, bishop, cave, chronicler, Forbidden History, history, Holy Land, Honorius, Knight Templar, lies, Matthew Paris, medieval, middle ages, monk, omne datum optimum, parchment, pope, propaganda, quill, Scott Wolter, scribe, Templar, Troyes, truth, tyre, Walter Map, Wemyss, William, writer
Ajlun Castle – sometimes spelt Ajloun – was built by the nephew of Saladin to protect the route into Damascus from crusader invaders
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ajloun, Ajlun, castle, history, Holy Land, jordan, Knight Templar, knights templar, middle ages, middle east, saladin, syria, Templar
Richard the Lionheart had his heart mummified after being killed during a siege and then the heart disappeared for centuries
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Aquitaine, crusade, england, Fontevraud Abbey, france, heart, Holy Land, knights templar, lionheart, mummified, Normandy, richard, Rouen, saracen
Jacques de Molay was the last Templar Grand Master burnt at the stake in 1314 after the Knights Templar were crushed by the King of France
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Category: Templar History
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The extraordinary story of a group of Germans who settled in Haifa in Israel called themselves Templars but then became Nazis
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: conspiracy, german, Haifa, Holy Land, israel, jews, Knight Templar, Knightfall, nazi, Nazism, Templar, Zionism
It’s spelt Capharnaum by the authorities in Israel but I always grew up knowing it as Caperneum – choose which you prefer! But the ruins of the town where Jesus grew up is now preserved behind a wall and includes…
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Driving through the Golan Heights in northern Israel I glimpsed a huge fortress up in the hills and asked my local guide what it was. He told me that it was a crusader castle named after the biblical character Nimrod….
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