Mary Becket was the sister of Saint Thomas Becket and an unsung hero who created a leper colony in London as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abbess, America Unearthed, Archbishop of Canterbury, Barking, borough, chapel, Christmas, colony, essex, fact, Forbidden History, heal, healer, history, Ilford, knight, knights, leper, leprosy, Mary Becket, Mary Beckett, medicine, Medieval, murder, murdered, mystery, Redbridge, Scott Wolter, sister, Templar, Thomas
Templar hero: Gerard de Ridefort – the life story of a Grand Master in Jerusalem
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Category: Templar History
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
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates how the leprosy pandemic terrified the medieval world and led to victims being excluded from mainstream society
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Category: Templar History
Tags: attitude, Baldwin, buried, catholic, church, Coronavirus, Covid, Disease, fear, Hansens, history, horror, jerusalem, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, leper, leprosy, medicine, medieval, mystery, pandemic, plague, religion, treatment, victim
The Battle of Hattin was a disaster for the crusaders and the Knights Templar leading to the eventual loss of Jerusalem as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: battle, battle of hattin, chatillon, crusader, hattin, horns, jerusalem, knight, leper, movie, orlando bloom, Ridley, saladin, Scott, Templar, tripoli, war
A look back at how the Knights Templar delivered a stunning victory at the battle of Montgisard
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baldwin, crusade, crusader, Dungeon, heaven, Islam, jerusalem, king, Kingdom, leper, miracle, Montgisard, muslim, orlando bloom, saladin, Templar, victory
