Many great medieval buildings were bombed in World War Two such as Coventry Cathedral and the Templar church in London as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
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The Knights Templar named a town in England after the Iraqi city of Baghdad because they associated it with prosperity in the 12th century
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Category: Templar History
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The Knights Templar were accused of pollution and dumping in 1306 by the Earl of Lincoln as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1306, 1307, earl, Fleet, history, knights, Knights Templar, Lincoln, London, pollution, river, Templar, templars, Urban
The Knights Hospitaller were once based near Alexandra Palace in north London according to a Victorian source
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Category: Templar History
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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
The idea that the Knights Templar control the world is surprisingly common on social media and online forums so Tony McMahon investigates why
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: banker, buried, conspiracy, crown, francis, freemason, government, Grail, Hiram, holy, illuminati, jerusalem, jesuit, John, king, Knightfall, knights templar, London, Magna Carta, one, pope, Solomon, Soumrak templářů, switzerland, Temple, theory, today, tyre, vatican, World
Five key places mentioned in the Templar novel Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar News
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Question: What connects “bad” King John, the famous Magna Carta and the Knights Templar? Answer: A lot more than you think! In 1215, King John was forced into signing the Magna Carta. This document enshrined basic rights and curbed royal…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: america, Aymeric, barons, British Library, democracy, grand master, history, ironclad, John, Kennedy, king john, law, London, Magna Carta, medieval, mystery, reasons, runnymede, sign, Templar
Temple church in London has survived the destruction of the Knights Templar and bombing in the Second World War as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: church, da vinci, Da Vinci Code, De Mandeville, Harry Potter, knight, Knight Templar, Knights Hospitaller, London, Templar, Temple
The Templar church in London suffered a Nazi Luftwaffe bomb attack in the Second World War that damaged the tombs of knights
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Blitz, bomb, christian, church, Da Vinci Code, damage, faith, grave, hitler, knight, law, legal, London, Mandeville, medieval, nazi, occult, Templar, Temple, tomb
