There wasn’t just one crusade but multiple crusades in medieval Europe from modern Spain all the way up to Russia as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, Albigensian, armor, armour, Baltics, battle, Cathar, constantinople, crusade, crusades, Cyprus, Dandolo, doge, fourth, heresy, Holy Land, Iberian, indulgence, innocent, knight, knights, Medieval, Moors, pagan, papal, plenary, pope, Templar, Teutonic, Venice
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
Tags: avignon, Clement, Clement V, escape, gaol, imprisoned, jail, king, King Philip, Kingdom, Kingdom of Heaven, knight, knights, Philip IV of France, Philip the Fair, pope, prison, Templar, templars, trial
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
Tags: Baskerville, Bernardo, Bernardo Gui, burning, Catholic, church, Conrad, death, Foucault's Pendulum, friars, Gui, heresy, heretic, innocent, Inquisition, Islam, jewish, knight, Konrad, Marburg, monks, murder, muslim, Name, name of the rose, Pendulum, poison, pope, Rose, Salvatore, sin, stake, Talmud, Templar, Tomás, Torquemada, umberto eco, William
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
Tags: 2, 3, cast, christ, church, evil, faith, france, good, Hamill, hammill, Holy Grail, Jedi, Jedi Templars, jesus, knight, Knightfall, knights, Landry, mark hamill, molay, Nogaret, pope, script, season, Star Wars, Talus, Templar, three, two, Vikings
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
Tags: Benedictine, bernard, book, christ, cistercian, Clairvaux, dress, drinking, eating, error, faith, female, food, hair, initiation, join, Knightfall, monastic, monk, obedience, pope, prayer, punishment, rite, rule, sex, Templar, today, women
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation
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Category: Templar History
Tags: ban, body, boil, burial, buried, cook, dead, death, deflesh, defleshing, emperor, eviscerate, evisceration, excarnation, fire, flesh, history, kill, king, Knightfall, murder, noble, pope, skeleton, strip, Templar, today, zombie
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
Tags: 13, 1307, 13th, buried, chinon, christ, Clement, cross, crucifix, crusade, de molay, Frale, france, friday, jesus, king, Knightfall, knights templar, medieval, molay, parchment, Philip, pope, secret, spit, spitting, Templar, trial, vatican
The medieval contemporaries of the Knights Templar who hated the order and criticised them
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Category: Templar History
Tags: avarice, buried, chronicler, critic, greed, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, Matthew Paris, Medieval, money, news, pope, revenue, Saxon, sodomy, Templar, tyre, Walter Map, William
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
Tags: allah, America Unearthed, blood, buried, charola, convento, cristo, door, Forbidden History, history, History Channel, Islam, jerusalem, king, Knightfall, knights templar, Manuel, military, muslim, ordem, order of christ, pope, portugal, sangue, Scott Wolter, secret, today, tomar, tony mcmahon, treasure, trial, tunnel
Episode 2 of Knightfall – the plot so far
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Boniface, buried, Catalan, death, england, fact, Grail, history, holy, Isabella, Knightfall, knights, Landry, marriage, medieval, middle ages, Nogaret, paris, pope, real, reality, Templar, templars, today, true
