Tony McMahon is the author of the Templar adventure Quest for the True Cross and next year will be publishing a major investigation into the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Audition, author, beard, beardy, Big, book, buff, buried, cross, Daily Mail, Forbidden, Hampton, Hampton Court, historian, history, ITV, Jamie Theakston, knights, knights templar, mcmahon, production, quest, Quest for the True Cross, show, sun, Templar, templars, The Big Audition, Tony, tony mcmahon, TV, twenty, UKTV
To my UK followers! You may have seen me dressed up as Henry VIII in The Sun this week. The story was about the launch of a new ITV prime-time show called The Big Audition. Each week, viewers will follow the struggles…
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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
Five key places mentioned in the Templar novel Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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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: Templar History
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
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 In late August, I went to Siena – a gorgeous medieval city in…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: All Saints Day, catherine, Catherine Wheel, ecstatic, Grail, italy, quest, 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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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
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