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: Knights Templar
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: Knights Templar
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
Was another Grand Master called Larmenius appointed by Jacques De Molay before he was burned at the stake?
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Category: Knights Templar
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: Knights Templar
Tags: avarice, buried, chronicler, critic, greed, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, Matthew Paris, Medieval, money, news, pope, revenue, Saxon, sodomy, Templar, tyre, Walter Map, William
Movies that feature the Knights Templar in their plots from 1972 to the present day
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Category: Knights Templar
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
Helen Nicholson talks about her book The Everyday Life of the Templars – a look at how the Templars lived and worked
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Tags: author, banker, book, Bradford, buried, crusades, everyday, farmer, festival, Helen, hospitaller, knight, Knightfall, knights, life, Literature, Medieval, Nicholson, preceptory, secret, Templar, today, wealth
Templar hero: Gerard de Ridefort – the life story of a Grand Master in Jerusalem
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Tags: arn, Baldwin, buried, channel, child, Cresson, de Ridefort, Gerard, hattin, heaven, history, jerusalem, king, Kingdom, knight, Knightfall, leper, Lusignan, mystery, Raymond, Ridefort, Sybilla, Templar, tripoli
Hugh de Payens – founder of the Knights Templar
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Christmas. What’s not to like? The decorations, pudding, cake, fir tree decked with lights, Santa Claus and his little elves. Now imagine a Christmas without any of these things. Then you’re getting closer to Yuletide at the time of the…
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Category: Medieval
Tags: bethlehem, birth, bishop, boy, Christmas, crib, jesus, king, knight, Knightfall, manger, Medieval, mummer, mumming, Nicholas, peacock, queen, saint, Templar, wassail, wassailing, Yule
I was in Lisbon in August of this year and made an interesting discovery… This year, I was walking up a steep hill in Lisbon to visit the medieval cathedral. This austere fortress-like edifice was built after the city was…
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Category: Catholic
Tags: Al-usbuna, blood, body, cathedral, Catholic, church, clothes, faith, feet, hair, hands, head, idol, jesus, knight, Lisboa, Lisbon, mannequin, miracle, naked, procession, puppet, saint, sin, Soumrak templářů, statue, Templar, worship
