There wasn’t just one crusade but multiple crusades in medieval Europe from modern Spain all the way up to Russia as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, Albigensian, armor, armour, Baltics, battle, Cathar, constantinople, crusade, crusades, Cyprus, Dandolo, doge, fourth, heresy, Holy Land, Iberian, indulgence, innocent, knight, knights, Medieval, Moors, pagan, papal, plenary, pope, Templar, Teutonic, Venice
TV Historian Tony McMahon examines the differences between the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller and other medieval orders
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Category: Templar History
Tags: armor, armour, Baltic, battle, Calatrava, cosplay, costume, crusade, crusades, discovery, documentaries, documentary, hospitaller, Hospitallers, ice, knight, Knightfall, knights, Medieval, militaria, military, Oak Island, portugal, russia, Santiago, spain, states, Templar, templario, templars, Teutonic, TV, war
In the Suffolk village of Kedlington in England there are ten elm trees that may have been planted on the bodies of ten dead Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cemetery, dead, death, East Anglia, elm, elms, england, france, Grail, graveyard, Kedlington, king, knight, knights, knights templar, Medieval, Norfolk, payens, suffolk, Templar, Temple, today, treasure, trial
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
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
Tags: air, Allies, beaches, Blitz, blitzed, bombed, buildings, cathedral, city, Coventry, demolished, destroyed, Europe, fight, hitler, lives, London, lost, Luftwaffe, Medieval, nazi, Reich, Second World War, VE Day, victory, Winston Churchill, World War Two, WWII
Medieval video games – do they give a realistic picture of life in the medieval era and which of them transport you back 800 years in time?
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Age, Age of Empires II, Elder Scrolls, Empires, games, kings, Medieval, medieval video games, Mordhau, Skyrim, video
I am appearing as a contributor on the new Discovery channel history investigation series Rob Riggle Global Investigator presented by Mr Riggle – who you will have seen previously on Saturday Night Live and the Daily Show as well as…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: abbey, channel, discovery, Global Investigator, Grail, history, Holy Grail, Kilwinning, knight, Medieval, Rob Riggle, Templar, TV
The Knights Templar were accused of worshipping a magical cord that proved they were influenced by Islam or the Cathars as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: accusations, Cathar, christian, Cord, De Nogaret, devil, france, head, Islam, king, knight, Knightfall, knights, Medieval, muslim, Nogaret, Philip, Templar, templars, worship
Tony McMahon looks at evidence that the Knights Templar were infiltrated by spies sent in by the King of France
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, 13th, arrest, buried, burning, de molay, De Nogaret, death, discovery, evidence, execution, france, friday, Guillaume, head, history, Knightfall, knights, Medieval, minister, moles, Philip, spies, Templar, templars, today, torture, trial, William
Who on earth would steal the head of a crusader – dead for many centuries? A disrespectful idiot is who! Let me tell you the story… Back in 1976, aged 12, I was taken to see the mummified body of…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 2019, church, corpse, crusader, Dublin, head, ireland, Medieval, michan, police, robbed, saint, skeleton, skull, stolen, Templar, theft
