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The most horrific disease at the time of the Knights Templar
The horror of leprosy in the Middle Ages
Read MoreHow was Easter celebrated when the Knights Templar were around?
The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus was central to Christian belief. This was the idea that God had taken human form, had performed miracles and given sermons while alive and then had sacrificed himself to the most degrading form of…
Read MoreDid Jesus come to England and is the Holy Grail at Avalon?
In the Middle Ages, it was believed that Jesus worked as a miner in England and that his uncle Joseph of Arimathea brought the Holy Grail to Somerset
Read MoreTomar – an imagining of Templar rule in Portugal
Following my post on the Templar stronghold of Tomar in Portugal – here is a video imagining what Tomar would have been like at the height of a Templar power. Enjoy!
Read MoreThe senseless massacre of Jews during the Crusades
Crusades began with the senseless massacre of Jewish people in Europe identified by mobs as being infidels like the Saracens
Read MoreThe more bizarre and strange saints
The Knights Templar were keen on their saint martyrs – the upper class Roman woman Euphemia for example, butchered in the arena during the reign of the Emperor Diocletian in the early fourth century AD. Diocletian was the last pagan…
Read MoreWhy so much blood and gore in Roman Catholic churches in the Latin world?
Why is there so much blood and gore in Catholic churches in southern Europe?
Read MoreThe First Templar versus Assassins Creed
Well, out there in Templar games land, the war is hotting up between those who say that Assassins Creed is unbeatable and that The First Templar is a crock versus those who say The First Templar is more historically accurate…
Read MoreWhen Braveheart killed two Templar masters
Those who have seen the movie ‘Braveheart’ will know that the English army got a pasting at the battle of Stirling Bridge after which a furious King Edward I – ruler of England and his dominions in Wales, Ireland and…
Read MoreYorkshire Templars arrested in fateful year of 1308
The arrest of the Templars at Temple Newsam in Yorkshire came as a shock to the knights because they had got on very well with the king’s father
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