This week, in the English wintry sun, I visited a church packed with history – Waltham Abbey. It’s located in the county of Essex, just 15 minutes by train out of London. The church is famous for including the grave…
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Category: Templar History
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Five facts about the Knights Templar that you may never have known from Templar expert Tony McMahon
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The boundary between the medieval Muslim and Christian worlds was very fluid and certain individuals had no difficulty moving from one world to the other
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Category: Templar History
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The medieval history of Southampton shows a large influx of Normans and close relationships with France
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Daily Life, Directories, English Street, france, french, French Street, history, Luftwaffe, Medieval, middle ages, norman, Septimius Severus, Southampton, World War II
I posted a photo of a medieval fort over the weekend and asked if any of you knew what terrible deed was committed there. What is the terrible secret of Clifford’s Tower? Opus Anglicanum was quick off the draw and…
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The lost castles of London – buried under the city’s streets including Baynards castle and Montfichet Tower
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No event shook late twelfth century England as much as the cold-blooded murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket in his own cathedral. The knights who plunged their swords in to him as he clutched at his altar believed…
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Medieval killer priests were men of the cloth who had no qualms about getting into armour and clubbing their enemies to death in battle
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Category: Templar History
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It’s not the most pleasant episode in English medieval history to look back on but it happened during the Templar period and we can’t ignore it. I’m writing about the expulsion of the Jews from England. Fortunately, we have an…
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Category: Templar History
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The theory that Newport Tower on Rhode Island is a Templar construction rests on a map by the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Carolinas, france, Knight Templar, Long Island, Narragansett Bay, New Amsterdam, New World, new york, newport tower, norman, rhode island, Templar, Verrazano, villa, Ville
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