Battle of Hattin – disaster for the Knights Templar
The Battle of Hattin was a disaster for the crusaders and the Knights Templar leading to the eventual loss of Jerusalem as Tony McMahon discovers

The Battle of Hattin was a disaster for the crusaders and the Knights Templar leading to the eventual loss of Jerusalem as Tony McMahon discovers
The Knights Templar had a big presence in Syria – at the heart of the Levant – and the crusader kingdoms that formed what was called ‘Outremer’.
When the Knights Templar in England were crushed in 1312 – what happened to their assets? Tony McMahon investigates.
The conquest of Jerusalem by crusader armies in 1099 was a war crime. As Templar expert Tony McMahon shows, it led to a massacre of the population
Jacob’s Ford was the scene of a huge massacre of the Knights Templar by a furious Saladin humiliated by his earlier defeat at Montgisard
What were the fantastic creatures that people believed in during the medieval period?
Throughout Christendom the Knights Templar built very distinctive round churches from Tomar and Segovia, to London and the Holy Land. But why? Tony McMahon investigates.
An earlier blog post on medieval chess was very popular among fans of the Templars and I even got this message all the way from Egypt
Where do you find the modern day Knights Templar? Tony McMahon goes investigating.
The city of Leeds in northern England has a rich Templar heritage that is often not fully appreciated reports Tony McMahon
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