This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front –…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: arn, Arn Magnusson, banking, baphomet, baptist, battle, byzantine, De Nogaret, empire, fiction, france, google, Guillou, head, invade, Iran, jewish, jews, John, king, Knightfall, knights, Landry, lending, Manzikert, money, OSMTH, Philip, real, saint, saints, search, seljuk, Sverige, sweden, Swedish, Templar, term, today, war, worship
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
It’s often claimed that the Knights Templar were the first bankers or financiers so Tony McMahon investigates whether this is actually true
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Category: Templar History
Tags: banking, banks, bullion, buried, cheque, china, Chinese, christian, crown, crusades, deposit, fair, fairs, finance, france, Genoa, gold, henry III, hidden, Islam, islamic, jewels, king, Knightfall, knights, medieval, money, Oleron, paris, Philip, sector, Swiss, switzerland, templars, treasure, Troyes, Venice
Tony McMahon is the author of the Templar adventure Quest for the True Cross and next year will be publishing a major investigation into the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Audition, author, beard, beardy, Big, book, buff, buried, cross, Daily Mail, Forbidden, Hampton, Hampton Court, historian, history, ITV, Jamie Theakston, knights, knights templar, mcmahon, production, quest, Quest for the True Cross, show, sun, Templar, templars, The Big Audition, Tony, tony mcmahon, TV, twenty, UKTV
A visit to the Templar castle in Mogadouro in north east Portugal
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, castle, catholic, Cavaleiros, Dom Afonso, Douro, fortress, gualdim, knights, medieval, miranda, Mirandense, Mogadouro, mystery, pais, porto, portugal, Templar, templario, today, tower, Tras os Montes
Tony McMahon joins the History channel team on the documentary series Buried to investigate the Knights Templar in Portugal searching for buried treasure
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Category: Templar News
Tags: airing, beardy, broadcast, buried, drama, expert, historian, history, Holy Grail, Knightfall, knights, Landry, Medieval, series, Templar, theory, today, tony mcmahon, truth, TV, UK
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
On 30 June, 2018, I’ll be speaking at a special event at the Bradford Literature Festival discussing the Knights Templar with medieval expert Professor Helen Nicholson and broadcaster Remona Aly will be in the chair. Expect a lively debate on…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: 2018, author, books, Bradford, buried, channel, festival, history, Knightfall, knights, Literature, mcmahon, medieval, mystery, news, Nicholson, Remona Aly, templars, today
