A grim reminder of the pogroms that accompanied the crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries in Europe has been the gruesome discovery in England of seventeen skeletons in a medieval well. The skeletons, jumbled together, have been subjected to…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: anti-semitism, blood libel, Catholic, faith, History of the Jews in Hungary, hugh of lincoln, hungary, Islam, jew, jews, Jobbik, judaism, norwich, pogrom, Politics of Hungary, Prioress' Tale, Templar, william of norwich
The Knights Templar were famous for fighting the Muslim Saracens but they also had to confront an enormous army of Mongols in the 13th century
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1258, Abbasid, asia, Ayyubid, Baghdad, Baybars, china, christian, east, Genghis, horde, hungary, Islam, khan, knights, Kublai, marco, mongol, polo, Templar, Turanshah
There are some truly bizarre relics of saints from the Middle Ages and the Templars were fond of collecting them
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Category: Templar History
Tags: burning bush, Catholic, Elizabeth, hungary, jesus, Lincoln, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Medieval, Prague, prepuce, relics, saint, Templar, Vezelay, Virgin
