Medieval Girl Power was at the centre of the Cathar heresy that shook the Pope and Rome to its foundations, as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Aude, Carcassone, Cathar, credente, crusade, debate, Dominic, Dominican, Esclarmonde, execution, Fanjeaux, female, Foix, france, girl power, heresy, Inquisition, Knightfall, Mazerolles, Medieval, Nogaret, Parzival, perfect, Raymonde, spies, spy, Templar, torture, Toulouse, women
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
Tags: Baskerville, Bernardo, Bernardo Gui, burning, Catholic, church, Conrad, death, Foucault's Pendulum, friars, Gui, heresy, heretic, innocent, Inquisition, Islam, jewish, knight, Konrad, Marburg, monks, murder, muslim, Name, name of the rose, Pendulum, poison, pope, Rose, Salvatore, sin, stake, Talmud, Templar, Tomás, Torquemada, umberto eco, William
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
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates claims that the Knights Templar were founded by a mysterious organisation called the Priory of Sion
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Émile Fouchet, Bérenger, Bibliothèque, bloodline, Catholic, church, code, Corbu, da vinci, Dan Brown, Foucault's Pendulum, freemason, Graeme Davis, Inquisition, knight, Knightfall, knights, Mary Magdalene, merovingian, murder, nationale, Pierre Plantard, Plantard, priory of sion, Rennes-le-Château, Robert Charroux, Saunière, Templar, The Da Vinci Code, today, umberto eco
Christian converts from Judaism and Islam may have hoped to avoid the Spanish Inquisition but the 1506 Lisbon massacre proved otherwise
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baptism, bishop, Catholic, conversion, convert, death, execution, forced, history, infidel, Inquisition, Islam, jews, Lisbon, Manuel, massacre, Muslims, pagan, persecution, pope, revert, Sao Domingos
