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
This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular Templar blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: arn, Arn Magnusson, banking, baphomet, baptist, battle, byzantine, De Nogaret, empire, fiction, france, google, Guillou, head, invade, Iran, jewish, jews, John, king, Knightfall, knights, Landry, lending, Manzikert, money, OSMTH, Philip, real, saint, saints, search, seljuk, Sverige, sweden, Swedish, Templar, term, today, war, worship
A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cannibal, cannibalism, christian, cook, crusade, crusades, death, Disease, eat, human, Islam, jewish, knighs, massacre, meat, Medieval, moor, muslim, plague, pogrom, pot, Rhineland, saracen, serf, starving, tafur, Tafurs, Templar, tyre, William
The boundary between the medieval Muslim and Christian worlds was very fluid and certain individuals had no difficulty moving from one world to the other
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Category: Templar History
Tags: boundaries, boundary, byzantine, Capella, catholic, chapel, Charlton, christian, christianity, constantine, Cordoba, Davides, El Cid, Evora, Geraldo, Heston, histfic, history, iraq, ISIS, Islam, jewish, knights, knights templar, Loren, medieval, Mozarab, muslim, norman, Ottoman, palatina, Palatine, Roger, seljuk, Sem Pavor, Sevilla, Seville, Sicily, Sisnando, Sophia, syria, Templar
I posted a photo of a medieval fort over the weekend and asked if any of you knew what terrible deed was committed there. What is the terrible secret of Clifford’s Tower? Opus Anglicanum was quick off the draw and…
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Here is a test of your medieval knowledge – can any of you tell me what terrible deed happened in this tower?
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Even more than Seville or Cordoba – medieval Toledo affords you a glimpse of life in Spain as a Muslim, Jewish and Christian civilisation
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Al-Andalus, capital, christian, church, Islam, jewish, judaism, Medieval, mosque, muslim, spain, synagogue, Toledo, Toledo Spain
The hilltop fortress of Masada in Israel is the alleged site of a mass suicide by Jewish rebels under the Roman emperor Vespasian but did this happen?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, cable, car, Herod, jewish, jews, Masada, revolt, roman, suicide, Templar
Bernard of Clairvaux – friend of Jewish people? Bernard of Clairvaux was the great spiritual force behind the Templars – the Cistercian ascetic who promoted the Order in its early years and is believed to have largely authored the Rule….
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