Templar hero: Gerard de Ridefort
Gerard de Ridefort was a hot headed Grand Master of the Knights Templar who led his troops to disaster at the battle of Cresson against the Saracens

Gerard de Ridefort was a hot headed Grand Master of the Knights Templar who led his troops to disaster at the battle of Cresson against the Saracens
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at Hugh de Payens – founder of the Knights Templar
Templar expert Tony McMahon looks at how Christmas would have been celebrated by the Knights Templar – welcome to a medieval Christmas of feasting!
Pictured here is Jesus Christ with the bloodied wounds from his crown of thorns but the crown, his hair and robes have gone.
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates claims that the Knights Templar were founded by a mysterious organisation called the Priory of Sion
How the Knights Templar survived in Portugal by changing their name to the Order of Christ as Tony McMahon discovers
Tony McMahon visited Avignon, the French city where Pope Clement V lived – the pope who crushed the Knights Templar in 1307
Newark Castle saw many English Knights Templar imprisoned in its dungeons interrogated and tortured after the order was suppressed in 1307
Caynton Caves has long been claimed to have a Templar connection but the evidence suggests otherwise
There are stories that the Knights Templar reached the United States with the help of the Sinclair family in Scotland – Tony McMahon investigates
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