I’ll do anything for a history related giggle. So when a production company asked if I’d dress up as Henry VIII – I could hardly say no. I’ve always loved the Tudors. Since my school history teacher regaled us with…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: actor, Audition, Big, casting, costume, cross, entertainment, evening, friday, history, ITV, knight, novelist, quest, season, series, show, Templar, The Big Audition, Tony, tony mcmahon, TV
How you can buy the Templar adventure Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: adventure, author, book, buried, cross, Knightfall, knights templar, mcmahon, medieval, news, novel, quest, read, sacred, templars, thriller, today, Tony, writer
I have just returned from a very Templar themed holiday in Portugal – in the next few blog posts, I’ll share my discoveries with you: Lisbon is the capital of modern day Portugal and a thriving, bustling city. But let’s…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: afonso, bear, cathedral, Grail, henriques, Knightfall, knights, lgbt, Lisbon, mosque, portugal, quest, Templar, tomar
The first ten years of the Knights Templar is shrouded in mystery as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, decade, early, faith, Grail, history, jerusalem, Knightfall, knights, middle ages, payens, quest, reason, Solomon, Templar, Temple, ten, treasure, tyre, William, years
Five key places mentioned in the Templar novel Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Abelard, barn, bernard, Clairvaux, Cressing Temple, cross, Dome, Edessa, essex, history, hotspot, jerusalem, knight, knights, lignum crucis, London, medieval, quest, Quest for the True Cross, Rock, saint, Templar, templars, Temple, today, tony mcmahon, True Cross, Witham
The conquest of Lisbon in the Crusades from its Muslim rulers was achieved by diverting a huge crusader army from all over Europe
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Category: Templar History
Tags: afonso, Al Lixbuna, Al-usbuna, Clermont, conquest, cristo, cross, crusade, Dinis, gualdim, henriques, knight, Knightfall, knights, Lisbon, Master, medieval, moor, Moorish, muslim, ordem, order of christ, pais, Pitoes, pope, porto, portugal, quest, Templar, tomar, tunnel, Urban
I was in Italy in August and September this year and visited many medieval sites – in the next few blog posts, I’ll give you some highlights. But first – let’s meet a very odd medieval saint – Catherine of…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: All Saints Day, black death, bowl, breast, cancer, catherine, Catherine Wheel, ecstatic, Grail, italy, jesus, marriage, pandemic, pus, quest, ring, saint, Siena, Templar, vision
Europe’s leading publisher Bertelsmann has just published Quest For The True Cross through its Euromedia imprint in the Czech Republic. Three hardback copies arrived for me in the post today – very exciting! Unfortunately, I don’t speak a work of…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: cross, Czech, knight, Mandeville, mcmahon, Medieval, quest, Soumrak templářů, Templar, Tony, twilight
Meet Sir William de Mandeville – a Templar hero
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: adventure, book, Cressing, cross, england, essex, Lisbon, Mandeville, murder, novel, Outremer, portugal, quest, siege, Templar, Temple, thriller, true, william de mandeville
The origins of the Knights Templar are wrapped in mystery. Were they set up by the Priory of Sion or Rex Deus or just a security force protecting pilgrims?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Acre, bernard, Brown, buried, channel, Clairvaux, code, Cyprus, da vinci, Deus, Grail, history, holy, Honorius, Hugh, jerusalem, king, knight, Knightfall, louis, molay, nine, payens, Philip, pope, priory, priory of sion, quest, Rex, Rex Deus, saladin, sion, Solomon, Templar, Troyes, Wallace-Murphy, zion
