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
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
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
What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
Tags: abbot, Ancient, blind, buff, carol, Christmas, dark, dulci, egg, feast, feasting, game, games, goose, jubilo, light, Lord, Medieval, middle ages, mike oldfield, misrule, modern, sun, Templar, turkey, unreason, wassail, wassailing, winter solstice, Yule, yuletide
A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cannibal, cannibalism, christian, cook, crusade, crusades, death, Disease, eat, human, Islam, jewish, knighs, massacre, meat, Medieval, moor, muslim, plague, pogrom, pot, Rhineland, saracen, serf, starving, tafur, Tafurs, Templar, tyre, William
The murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: altar, assassin, assassination, becket, beckett, canterbury, death, FitzUrse, henry, ireland, jerusalem, John, killed, knight, lionheart, mcmahon, Medieval, money, murder, richard, saint, Templar, Thomas, thomas a becket, treasure, veneration
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
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates whether there was another Grand Master called Larmenius appointed by Jacques De Molay before he was burned at the stake
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: buried, charter, church, de molay, grand master, history, Johannes, johannite, knight, Larmenius, Medieval, paris, solar, Templar, Temple, Theobaldus, trial
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
Helen Nicholson talks about her book The Everyday Life of the Templars – a look at how the Templars lived and worked
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Category: Templar History
Tags: author, banker, book, Bradford, buried, crusades, everyday, farmer, festival, Helen, hospitaller, knight, Knightfall, knights, life, Literature, Medieval, Nicholson, preceptory, secret, Templar, today, wealth
