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
Were the Knights Templar heretics as charged?
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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
Were the Knights Templar really set up by the secretive 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
Corrupt and evil popes through history
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Category: Medieval
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, secret, Stefano Infessura, Templar, vatican, Vatican City
Quest For The True Cross is a Templar adventure novel by Tony McMahon
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Category: Knights Templar
Tags: adventure, amazon, author, barnes, book, buried, crime, death, Knightfall, middle ages, murder, mystery, noble, novel, Pathros, publish, saracen, Templar, templars, today, True Cross, Waterstones, William, william de mandeville
A growing number of people in Mexico are turning to the worship of Saint Death – a figure who appears to be a combination of Catholic imagery with pre-Columbian beliefs. This blending of religious beliefs is called ‘syncretism’ and is…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Aztec, BBC, catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, christianity, Gael García Bernal, killing, mexico, murder, saint, Santa Muerte, Sonora
Meet Sir William de Mandeville – a Templar hero
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Category: Medieval
Tags: adventure, book, Cressing, cross, england, essex, Lisbon, Mandeville, murder, novel, Outremer, portugal, quest, siege, Templar, Temple, thriller, true, william de mandeville
We imagine that at the time of the Knights Templar, the whole of Europe was long converted to Christianity. Well, think again. Paganism was persistent for centuries after the Romans adopted the cross under the Emperor Constantine in the year…
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Category: Catholic
Tags: Army of Valhalla, battle, byzantine, constantine, crusade, empire, Greek, ice, Iron Lord, Jupiter, knights, Lithuania, murder, non-belief, pagan, paganism, philosophy, Poland, roman, russia, Templar, Teutonic, Teutonic knights, Theodosius, war, Wend, wicca, Wiccan
This month’s edition of ‘History Today’ mentions in passing a certain bishop called Adam of Orleton who in a sermon on October 15th, 1327 declared that King Edward II of England, who was in the process of being deposed by…
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Category: Templars and the papacy
Tags: avignon, gay, knight, lgbt, Magi, Medieval, murder, Orleton, papacy, sodomy, Templar, trial
