There were links between the Knights Templar and the Cathars or Albigensian heresy that might explain why the King of France crushed the Templars
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, buried, Cathar, Catharism, catholic, Catholic Church, channel, christianity, Clement, crusade, De Nogaret, drama, dualism, dualist, fish, france, gnostic, god, heresy, heretic, history, innocent, Knightfall, Languedoc, Mani, meat, middle east, Philip, pope, priory of sion, Rex Deus, Saint Peter, series, sex
Ajlun Castle – sometimes spelt Ajloun – was built by the nephew of Saladin to protect the route into Damascus from crusader invaders
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ajloun, Ajlun, castle, history, Holy Land, jordan, Knight Templar, knights templar, middle ages, middle east, saladin, syria, Templar
The Templar Knight blog has just visited the biblical city of Gadara – part of the Decapolis – and now known as Um Qais to see its Roman ruins
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Category: Templar History
Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient, Ancient Rome, basalt, byzantine, Byzantine Empire, Decapolis, Gadara, Galilee, jesus, jordan, Kingdom, middle east, roman, rome, Saudi Arabia, syria, Templar, Um Qais
A Turcopole was a lightly armed auxiliary recruited in the east by the Knights Templar to supplement their fighting ability in the Crusades
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Tags: christian, discovery, egypt, History Channel, Islam, islamophobia, jerusalem, jordan, Knight Templar, Knightfall, middle east, Pathros, Seljuq dynasty, syria, Templar, Turcopole, turk
Medieval fake news may have started two hundred years of Crusades with a forged letter from the Byzantine emperor to the Christian west begging for help
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1099, byzantine, ByzantineEmpire, constantinople, crusade, fake, fake news, Fatimid, Islam, jerusalem, Medieval, middle east, muslim, Pope Urban, Pope Urban II, seljuk, Templar
Gosh – what can one say? The horror being faced by the people of Syria is stomach churning and to add to their misery, the very buildings that have given them both pleasure and a livelihood from tourists are being…
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I wish that headline was a bit of journalist hyperbole – but the pictures say otherwise. We’d all like to think that in the current civil war in Syria, its Roman and crusader sites – jewels that should be treasured…
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The Knights Templar in medieval Spain were at the forefront of the long war against the Muslim caliphate that eventually resulted in victory
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Al-Andalus, Islam, Las Navas de Tolosa, medieval, middle east, moor, muslim, portugal, Seville, spain, Templar
The truth about Saladin the merciful and his war against the Crusaders and Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Arab, BBC, buried, crusades, Dome of the Rock, egypt, History Channel, Islam, jerusalem, Knightfall, middle east, richard, Richard I of England, saladin, Templar, Thomas Asbridge
The differences and similarities between Jewish moneylenders and the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages
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Tags: banking, banks, Catholic, History Channel, jerusalem, jew, jewish, judaism, Knight Templar, Knightfall, lender, lending, Medieval, middle ages, middle east, money, moneylender, Old Testament, papal, Templar, usury