How you can buy the Templar adventure Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Knights Templar
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: Knights Templar, Uncategorized
Tags: afonso, bear, cathedral, Grail, henriques, Knightfall, knights, lgbt, Lisbon, mosque, portugal, quest, Templar, tomar
Here’s a great idea for a Templar holiday this year – visit all the Templar hotspots mentioned in my book Quest for the True Cross. I’ve been to all of them (barring one) and can guarantee – they are fascinating…
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Category: Middle Ages, Uncategorized
Tags: Abelard, barn, bernard, Clairvaux, Cressing Temple, cross, Dome, Edessa, essex, history, jerusalem, knight, knights, lignum crucis, London, Medieval, quest, Rock, saint, Templar, templars, Temple, today, Witham
This is an astonishing story from the Middle Ages of how a vast crusader army on the way to the Holy Land was convinced to divert to Portugal and help a small Christian kingdom take a city called Al-Usbuna from…
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Category: Middle Ages
Tags: afonso, Al Lixbuna, Al-usbuna, Clermont, conquest, cross, crusade, Dinis, gualdim, henriques, knight, Knightfall, knights, Lisbon, Master, Medieval, moor, Moorish, muslim, pais, Pitoes, pope, porto, portugal, quest, Templar, tomar, tunnel, Urban
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: Middle Ages
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: Medieval
Tags: adventure, book, Cressing, cross, england, essex, Lisbon, Mandeville, murder, novel, Outremer, portugal, quest, siege, Templar, Temple, thriller, true, william de mandeville
In 1976 when I was only 12 years old, my parents took me to the English county of Somerset. We passed through the Roman town of Bath with its ancient ruins and eighteenth century additions. Then to Wells with its…
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Category: Medieval
Tags: avalon, england, faith, glastonbury, Holy Grail, jesus, Joseph, joseph of arimathea, king arthur, Knightfall, knights, quest, secret, somerset, Templar, treasure, tunnel
