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How the murder of Thomas Becket netted the Templars a tidy sum
The murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
Read MoreDo the Templars control the world today?
I meet and talk to people in very different situations who are convinced that the Knights Templar in some guise or other control the world. How do they come to this view? A few months ago, I was talking to…
Read MoreMagna Carta – a feminist charter?
There’s been plenty of talk in the UK about the 799th anniversary of Magna Carta this month – with the 800th anniversary looming next year. This was when King John of England was forced to sign a charter of rights…
Read MoreThe strange disappearance of the bodies of English kings
The bodies of many famous Kings of England have disappeared over the centuries and never been found again
Read MoreChristmas: The Visitation – a medieval depiction
This is one of a series of Christmas posts showing medieval depictions of the birth of Christ and an insight into how a Knight Templar might have celebrated the season. So here goes with The Visitation – the event sacred…
Read MoreThe birthplace of John the Baptist
Today I visited the birthplace of John the Baptist as part of my journey to Israel. The Franciscan monastery at Ein Karem – a village now swallowed up by Jerusalem – is a nineteenth century construction sitting on top of…
Read MoreWhy did England expel the Jews in the Middle Ages?
It’s not the most pleasant episode in English medieval history to look back on but it happened during the Templar period and we can’t ignore it. Fortunately, we have an excellent book by Robert Winder called ‘Bloody Foreigners’ to fall…
Read MoreThe link between the Three Wise Men and the Knights Templar
The link between the Knights Templar and the Three Wise Men with claims they were all part of an ancient priesthood stretching back to the Solomon era priest Melchizedek
Read MoreTerrible and random acts of violence in medieval Europe!
Stephen Pinker writes about some of the terrible and random acts of violence in medieval Europe
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