There wasn’t just one crusade but multiple crusades in medieval Europe from modern Spain all the way up to Russia as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, Albigensian, armor, armour, Baltics, battle, Cathar, constantinople, crusade, crusades, Cyprus, Dandolo, doge, fourth, heresy, Holy Land, Iberian, indulgence, innocent, knight, knights, Medieval, Moors, pagan, papal, plenary, pope, Templar, Teutonic, Venice
The BBC is broadcasting a new TV series based on The Name of the Rose – a fantastic novel by the late Italian author Umberto Eco. It tells the story of a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville, who visits an…
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Category: Templar History
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So – were the Knights Templar guilty or innocent? Since their downfall, opinions on the guilt of the Knights Templar have been bitterly divided. Right down to our own time, experts have quarrelled over whether the charges against the Order…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Agrippa, Assassins Creed, buried, Cornelius, Dupuy, guilt, Heinrich, history, innocent, Ivanhoe, Knightfall, knights, Llull, Ramon, Scott, Templar, today, truth, witchcraft
The Knights Templar have been accused of being gnostic and Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, Abraxas, Albigensian, Arian, assassin, bernard, Cathar, catholic, church, Clairvaux, crusade, gnostic, heresy, heretical, innocent, Inquisition, Ismaili, knights, man, medieval, Montferrat, mountain, murder, myth, Nogaret, old, Plato, pope, Puylaurens, rome, saladin, shia, Soumrak templářů, Templar, Toulouse, Waldensian
The Fourth Crusade saw the most appalling war crime when crusaders funded by Venice destroyed a Christian city – Constantinople. Venice is now an over-visited historical tourist resort in northern Italy subject to flooding and beset of late by the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: battle, byzantine, Catholic Church, constantinople, crusade, Dandolo, destroy, diocletian, doge, horses, innocent, muslim, pillage, plunder, pope, prison, rape, San Marco, Templar, tetrarch, Venice, war
There were links between the Knights Templar and the Cathars or Albigensian heresy that might explain why the King of France crushed the Templars
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, buried, Cathar, Catharism, catholic, Catholic Church, channel, christianity, Clement, crusade, De Nogaret, drama, dualism, dualist, fish, france, gnostic, god, heresy, heretic, history, innocent, Knightfall, Languedoc, Mani, meat, middle east, Philip, pope, priory of sion, Rex Deus, Saint Peter, series, sex
Omne Datum Optimum (Latin for “Every Perfect Gift”) was a Papal Bull that gave full legitimacy to the Knights Templar? So, why was this pronouncement from the Pope so significant to the knights? Omne Datum Optimum – a big turning…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bernard, immunity, innocent, Knight Templar, knights templar history, money, omne datum optimum, pope, power, riches, Templar, treasure, wealth
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