Pope Clement V tried to save the Knights Templar but found himself up against King Philip of France who got his way as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
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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
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Question marks over the future of the Templar series Knightfall but Tony McMahon hopes that History will renew it for season three
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Category: Templar News
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Templar expert Tony McMahon reveals the Rule book of the Knights Templar and how it covered everything from eating to praying
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Category: Templar History
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Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation
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Category: Templar History
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Why the Chinon Parchment found in the secret Vatican archives does not exonerate the Knights Templar from the charge of heresy
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Category: Templar History
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The medieval contemporaries of the Knights Templar who hated the order and criticised them
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Category: Templar History
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Tony McMahon appeared in the History TV documentary series Buried on the search for the lost treasure of the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar Mystery
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Episode 2 of Knightfall – the plot so far
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Category: Templar Mystery
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The truth about Pope Boniface VIII and his struggle with King Philip of France
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Category: Templar Mystery
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