Templar expert Tony McMahon examines how loyal and brave the Knights Templar actually were in reality
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ascalon, Ashkelon, battle, beausant, brave, bravery, buried, burnt, de molay, De Tramelay, Foreign Legion, history, Holy Land, hype, Islam, jerusalem, knight, Knightfall, knights, loyalty, military, Montgisard, muslim, nine, rule, saladin, saracen, SAS, Spartan, stake, standard, Templar, templars, Tremelay, tyre, war, William
Templar expert Tony McMahon guides you on finding your Templar ancestors in England, Ireland and Scotland using online resources and local parish records
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Category: Templar News
Tags: ago, alive, ancestor, ancestors, ancestry, ancestry dot com, Ancestry.com, antecedent, aunt, Balantrodoch, book, burnt, chapel, cousin, daughter, dead, destroyed, Domesday, family, find, genealogy, generation, Grand, great, Guildhall, historic, history, ireland, knight, knights, livery, London, long, medieval, MyHeritage, names, online, parent, past, places, probate, removed, resource, rosslyn, Scotland, site, son, Templar, time, tree, uncle, wales
Tony McMahon looks at what fascinates people about the Knights Templar including the bloodline of Jesus and their reputed treasure
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Category: Templar News
Tags: 13, 1307, 13th, ancestor, ancestry, Ancestry.com, Baignet, blood, bloodline, brotherhood, Carolingian, catholic, cave, Dan Brown, dynasty, era, execution, family, finance, financier, freemason, friday, genealogy, Grail, holy, initiation, jerusalem, knight, Lincoln, loyalty, medieval, merovingian, modern day, money, rite, roots, Templar, templars, today, today's, treasure, tree, trial, well
The latest news on Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame playing a Templar knight in Knightfall on the History channel
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Category: Templar News
Tags: buried, crusade, france, Hamill, hammil, hammill, history, king, knight, Knightfall, Landry, Mark, Nogaret, paris, Philip, queen, season, series, Star Wars, Talus, Temple, TV, war, Warrior
To my UK followers! You may have seen me dressed up as Henry VIII in The Sun this week. The story was about the launch of a new ITV prime-time show called The Big Audition. Each week, viewers will follow the struggles…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: actor, Audition, Big, casting, costume, cross, entertainment, evening, friday, history, ITV, knight, novelist, quest, season, series, show, Templar, The Big Audition, Tony, tony mcmahon, TV
The murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: altar, assassin, assassination, becket, beckett, canterbury, death, FitzUrse, henry, ireland, jerusalem, John, killed, knight, lionheart, mcmahon, Medieval, money, murder, richard, saint, Templar, Thomas, thomas a becket, treasure, veneration
The Knight Templar event at the Bradford Literature Festival chaired by Remona Aly with speakers Helen Nicholson and Tony McMahon was a huge success on 30 June 2018
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Category: Templar News
Tags: author, book, Bradford, Cardiff, crusade, festival, Helen Nicholson, history, knight, Literature, mcmahon, medieval, movies, mystery, Quest for the True Cross, Remona Aly, secret, studies, Templar, treasure, university, Watersone's, Waterstones
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates whether there was another Grand Master called Larmenius appointed by Jacques De Molay before he was burned at the stake
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: buried, charter, church, de molay, grand master, history, Johannes, johannite, knight, Larmenius, Medieval, paris, solar, Templar, Temple, Theobaldus, trial
The medieval contemporaries of the Knights Templar who hated the order and criticised them
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Category: Templar History
Tags: avarice, buried, chronicler, critic, greed, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, Matthew Paris, Medieval, money, news, pope, revenue, Saxon, sodomy, Templar, tyre, Walter Map, William
Tony McMahon looks at five movies that feature the Knights Templar in their plots from 1972 to the present day
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 1972, blood, buried, Danish, demon, Denmark, devil, Dolph Lundgren, evil, fantasy, ghost, Gregoire, Holy Grail, horror, knight, Knightfall, lost, medieval, Minion, new york, night, revenant, revenge, Templar, Tombs of the Blind Dead, treasure
