William Marshal – medieval superhero!
William Marshal is often seen as the greatest knight who ever lived – but was he a medieval superhero?

William Marshal is often seen as the greatest knight who ever lived – but was he a medieval superhero?
TV Historian Tony McMahon examines the differences between the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller and other medieval orders
Resurrection: Ertugrul is a hugely successful medieval historical TV drama series on Netflix where the Knights Templar are the bad guys
The Knights Hospitaller were once based near Alexandra Palace in north London according to a Victorian source
Evidence of secret tunnels under the city of Acre in Israel built by the Templars on the new National Geographic series Lost Cities with Albert Lin
Helen Nicholson talks about her book The Everyday Life of the Templars – a look at how the Templars lived and worked
During the Crusades, the holy city of Jerusalem was held for just under a century by Christian forces. It was taken at the start of the First Crusade in 1099 and then lost to the Muslim Saracens in 1187. One contemporary English chronicler, Roger of Hoveden (or Howden) described what happened. How was it that the crusaders lost control of Jerusalem?
The Fatimid Empire presented a formidable foe to the Knights Templar but in the 1160s it collapsed – Tony McMahon investigates.
The Teutonic Knights were a military order similar to the Knights Templar. Who were they? Tony McMahon investigates.
A description of the Knights Hospitaller – rivals to the Knights Templar – with TV historian Tony McMahon discovering why they survived when the Templars did not.
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