A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cannibal, cannibalism, christian, cook, crusade, crusades, death, Disease, eat, human, Islam, jewish, knighs, massacre, meat, Medieval, moor, muslim, plague, pogrom, pot, Rhineland, saracen, serf, starving, tafur, Tafurs, Templar, tyre, William
The period of Lent leading up to Easter was hazardous for Jews in the Middle Ages falsely accused of the killing of Jesus by ignorant people
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ancient, blood libel, crucifixion, diaspora, Easter, ill, jesus, jews, king, knight, knights, Lent, Medieval, pogrom, prejudice, queen, synagogue, Talmud, Templar, Torah, treatment
The fervour of the Crusades often saw public anger turn against Jewish people in medieval Europe. There were brutal assaults and even murder. Though the horror experienced by medieval Jewish people would not equal the industrial scale nightmare that we…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: allah, blood libel, christian, christianity, Islam, israel, jews, judaism, knights, middle ages, Muslims, pogrom, portugal, spain, Templar, Torah, william of norwich
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
Tags: catholic, crusade, england, france, israel, jew, jewish, jews, John, king, lynching, medieval, norman, pogrom, Robert Winder, Templar, westminster abbey
The relationship between the Jews and the Knights Templar was complex with the knights protecting Jewish people
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Category: Templar History
Tags: alheira, anti-semitism, blood libel, Edward I, england, hugh of lincoln, jew, jewish, jews, Knight Templar, Koppin, law, lending, Lincoln, medieval, middle ages, money, Murphy, Oliver Cromwell, persecution, pogrom, return, Rex Deus, sausage, sephardic, Templar, templars, tomar, Torah, usury, Wallace, zion
A grim reminder of the pogroms that accompanied the crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries in Europe has been the gruesome discovery in England of seventeen skeletons in a medieval well. The skeletons, jumbled together, have been subjected to…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: anti-semitism, blood libel, Catholic, faith, History of the Jews in Hungary, hugh of lincoln, hungary, Islam, jew, jews, Jobbik, judaism, norwich, pogrom, Politics of Hungary, Prioress' Tale, Templar, william of norwich
King Philip of France, as depicted in Knightfall, crushed the Templars because he was short of money
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 13th, accusations, booty, debt, fair, friday, jewish, jews, king, knights, La Rochelle, Lombard, loot, merchant, money, Philip, pogrom, Templar, Temple, trial, wealth
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