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 looks at what fascinates people about the Knights Templar including the bloodline of Jesus and their reputed treasure
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Category: Templar News
Tags: 13, 1307, 13th, ancestor, ancestry, Ancestry.com, Baignet, blood, bloodline, brotherhood, Carolingian, Catholic, cave, Dan Brown, dynasty, era, execution, family, finance, financier, freemason, friday, genealogy, Grail, holy, initiation, jerusalem, knight, Lincoln, loyalty, Medieval, merovingian, modern day, money, rite, roots, Templar, templars, today, today's, treasure, tree, trial, well
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
Jamie Theakston is presenting season five of Forbidden History on Yesterday TV with Tony McMahon appearing as a regular history expert
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Art, christ, communist, DDR, five, Forbidden History, germany, Jamie Theakston, jesus, Medieval, men, Monuments, nazi, news, prison, scrolls, season, secret, societies, society, Stasi, Templar, theft, TV, Yesterday
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 Knight Templar event at the Bradford Literature Festival chaired by Remona Aly with speakers Helen Nicholson and Tony McMahon was a huge success on 30 June 2018
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Category: Templar News
Tags: author, book, Bradford, Cardiff, crusade, festival, Helen Nicholson, history, knight, Literature, mcmahon, Medieval, movies, mystery, Quest for the True Cross, Remona Aly, secret, studies, Templar, treasure, university, Watersone's, Waterstones
Why the Chinon Parchment found in the secret Vatican archives does not exonerate the Knights Templar from the charge of heresy
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 13, 1307, 13th, buried, chinon, christ, Clement, cross, crucifix, crusade, de molay, Frale, france, friday, jesus, king, Knightfall, Knights Templar, Medieval, molay, parchment, Philip, pope, secret, spit, spitting, Templar, trial, vatican
