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
The murder of Thomas Becket was celebrated on the fifth day of Christmas to remember his killing in the year 1170 as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 29 December, A Becket, Archbishop, becket, beckett, book, canterbury, cathedral, Christmas, Film, Henry VIII, movie, murder, pilgrims, play, Richard Burton, saint, T S Elliot, Templar, thomas becket, tomb
The BBC is broadcasting a new TV series based on The Name of the Rose – a fantastic novel by the late Italian author Umberto Eco. It tells the story of a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville, who visits an…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Baskerville, Bernardo, Bernardo Gui, burning, Catholic, church, Conrad, death, Foucault's Pendulum, friars, Gui, heresy, heretic, innocent, Inquisition, Islam, jewish, knight, Konrad, Marburg, monks, murder, muslim, Name, name of the rose, Pendulum, poison, pope, Rose, Salvatore, sin, stake, Talmud, Templar, Tomás, Torquemada, umberto eco, William
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation
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Category: Templar History
Tags: ban, body, boil, burial, buried, cook, dead, death, deflesh, defleshing, emperor, eviscerate, evisceration, excarnation, fire, flesh, history, kill, king, Knightfall, murder, noble, pope, skeleton, strip, Templar, today, zombie
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
William De Nogaret is a leading character in Knightfall – but who was he in real life?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, Cathar, corrupt, france, Guillaume, history, Holy Grail, Julian Ovenden, Knightfall, knights, money, murder, news, Nogaret, Philip, pope, rome, Templar, today, treasure, William
The Knights Templar have been accused of being gnostic and Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, Abraxas, Albigensian, Arian, assassin, bernard, Cathar, catholic, church, Clairvaux, crusade, gnostic, heresy, heretical, innocent, Inquisition, Ismaili, knights, man, medieval, Montferrat, mountain, murder, myth, Nogaret, old, Plato, pope, Puylaurens, rome, saladin, shia, Soumrak templářů, Templar, Toulouse, Waldensian
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates claims that the Knights Templar were founded by a mysterious organisation called the Priory of Sion
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Émile Fouchet, Bérenger, Bibliothèque, bloodline, Catholic, church, code, Corbu, da vinci, Dan Brown, Foucault's Pendulum, freemason, Graeme Davis, Inquisition, knight, Knightfall, knights, Mary Magdalene, merovingian, murder, nationale, Pierre Plantard, Plantard, priory of sion, Rennes-le-Château, Robert Charroux, Saunière, Templar, The Da Vinci Code, today, umberto eco
Was the medieval cult of the Assassins a precursor to the 21st century terrorists of ISIS or Daesh?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: assassin, Assassins, baghdadi, church, creed, crusades, iraq, IS, ISIS, Islam, islamic, Knight Templar, murder, Templar
Vatican scandal after scandal has been shocking people for two thousand years as Tony McMahon investigates papal skullduggery
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Category: Templar History
Tags: benedict, bertone, Borgia, buried, butler, Cadaver Synod, Cesare Borgia, corrupt, crown, death, gabriele, Holy See, John Paul I, Knightfall, knights, murder, pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Roberto Calvi, rome, scandal, secret, Stefano Infessura, Templar, vatican, Vatican City
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