Hugh de Payens – founder of the Knights Templar
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Category: Knights Templar
Tags: abbey, bernard, Burgundy, Champagne, cistercian, Clairvaux, first, Grand, Hugh, jerusalem, knight, Master, Order, paen, pagan, payens, payns, Templar, Troyes
How the Knights Templar survived in Portugal by changing their name
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Category: Templars and later myths
Tags: afonso, buried, christ, Clement, cristo, crusader, Czech, Dinis, Grail, hidden, History Channel, holy, knight, Knightfall, Moors, ordem, Order, pope, portugal, rei, saracen, secret, Soumrak templářů, Templar, tomar, torture, treasure, tunnel
I’ve been filming with the History Channel in Tomar, a town in central Portugal that was once a stronghold of the Knights Templar. I’ve written about this magical place before but having gone back again this year, I just need…
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Category: Knights Templar, Uncategorized
Tags: Ark, buried, christ, covenant, Grail, Knightfall, knights, Knights Templar, Order, portugal, tomar, treasure, tunnel, tunnels
This is a Templar jewel – something everybody should visit. It’s the burial place of the Templar grand masters of Portugal – a church in the town of Tomar built in the very century that the order was formed by…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, christ, gualdim pais, Holy Grail, Hugh, Knight Templar, Knightfall, Maria, middle ages, Moors, Olival, Order, portugal, Templar, tomar
I’m very pleased to have reached out to The Ancient and Noble Order of the Knights Templar and they have kindly responded with some very helpful details on their aims and objectives. The Order has recently held its General Meeting…
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Prester John was a fabled king who medieval chroniclers imagined ruled lands in the East or Africa. He was a Christian, possibly a Nestorian, and some hoped he could be an ally against the Muslim realms. There were all sorts…
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Category: Christianity
Tags: Africa, Barbarossa, byzantine, christ, Comnenus, El Dorado, ethiopia, India, jerusalem, John, Magi, middle east, Order, portugal, Portuguese, Prester, Prester John, Templar
