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
In January 2019, I filmed in Rosslyn chapel for America Unearthed – a historical investigative series on Discovery’s Travel channel presented by Scott Wolter. After the production crew had packed up for the evening, I decided to roam around Rosslyn…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: america, Ark, Bannockburn, chapel, discovery, Grail, knight, knights, La Merica, Medieval, mystery, rosslyn, Scotland, Scott Wolter, Templar, templars, Travel, unearthed
The intrepid Scott Wolter has been back on American TV screens once more with his incredible investigative series America Unearthed. I was honoured to be asked to hook up with Scott in Scotland to unearth clues that might prove the…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: america, Ashley, booty, chapel, Cowie, Crypt, discovery, earl, gold, Grail, henry, hidden, knight, knights, La Merica, mcmahon, mystery, riches, rosslyn, Scotland, Scott, Scott Wolter, sign, sinclair, star, Templar, templars, Tony, tony mcmahon, trail, Travel, treasure, unearthed, Viking, Wemyss, Wolter
If you look at the charges brought against the Knights Templar during their trials between 1307 and 1314, it’s difficult for the modern mind to make out whether they were being accused of undermining the church with false belief or…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, divine, guilty, heresy, heretics, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, magician, magicians, Medieval, modern, Nogaret, occult, sorcery, Templar, templars, today, wicca, witch, witches
In 1307, arrest warrants were issued for the Knights Templar from the King of France on charges of heresy, sodomy and conspiracy. This led to the trial over a seven year period of many knights including the leaders of the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Boccaccio, Boniface, burnt, Dante, Divine Comedy, fire, florence, france, Giovanni, guilty, italy, knight, Knightfall, Llull, stake, Templar, templars, trial
In February and March this year (2019), I was in Paris researching a TV programme and made two visits inside Notre Dame cathedral. It’s as unmissable a monument at the very heart of Paris as it has been for over…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: accident, arson, cathedral, damage, death, emblem, fire, flames, future, history, knight, Macron, Medieval, Notre Dame, paris, past, repair, revolution, roof, spire, Templar, today, tower, wooden
Season two of Knightfall is finally on air and we can see Mark Hamill playing the Templar knight Talus
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Category: Templar News
Tags: 2, christ, church, evil, faith, france, good, hammill, Holy Grail, Jedi, Jedi Templars, jesus, knight, Knightfall, knights, Landry, mark hamill, molay, Nogaret, pope, season, Star Wars, Talus, Templar, two
The English occultist Aleister Crowley helped found a group that claimed to be influenced by the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: aleister crowley, baphomet, Black Sabbath, Blizzard, buried, crowley, gnostic, goth, head, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, magic, magick, occult, Ordo, Ozz, Ozzy Osbourne, sex, Spermo-Gnostic, Templar, today, worship
There are Templar influences in Game of Thrones if you look closely enough as Templar expert Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: bay, byzantine, Cathar, christian, comparison, constantinople, Dorne, empire, fantasy, game of thrones, george, George R. R. Martin, High Sparrow, history, iconoclasm, iconoclast, J R R Tolkein, king, Kingdom, knight, Knights Templar, Martin, Medieval, middle ages, Night's Watch, Nights, Qarth, queen, Roses, Seville, slaver, Templar, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein, true, war, Westeros
The Knights Templar were often said to be on a hunt for the passion relics of Jesus including the Holy Grail
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, Catholic, christ, column, cross, crown, crucifixion, flagellation, good thief, Grail, history, Holy Grail, jerusalem, jesus, knight, Knightfall, Knights Templar, lance, Longinus, nail, passion relic, rome, series, Templar, thorns, true, truth, TV, veil, Veronica
