The sack of Constantinople by crusaders during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 was a battle of Christian against Christian
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The 6th century AD Madaba Map gives an exclusive view of Byzantine Jerusalem in thousands of tiles that make up an amazing mosaic
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, christianity, church, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, constantinople, empire, Holy Sepulchre, jerusalem, Justinian, knights templar, Madaba, map, Nea, roman, Roman Empire, rome, Theotokos
The ancient Roman city of Jerash never stopped changing through the Byzantine and crusader period though it declined economically and because of earthquakes
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The Temple of Artemis at Jerash became a Saracen fortress and was stormed by a crusader army including Knights Templar who hid wealth there
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Antioch, Artemis, Damascus, Decapolis, Jerash, knights templar, knights templar history, roman, Roman Empire, Roman temple, saracen, Templar, Temple, treasure, underground
One pointless fact after another about Easter in a top ten of Tony McMahon’s Easter Pointless Facts on the Knight Templar blog
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Category: Templar News
Tags: alexandria, Easter, egg, equinox, food, Gregorian calendar, jesus, Mary Magdalene, medieval, one, pagan, Paschal Full Moon, Passover, pointless, rabbit, Roman Empire, sun, Templar
The Knights Templar had an unhappy time trying to rule Cyprus faced with a revolt they had to crush with a massacre of the local population
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The Donation of Constantine was a medieval forgery claiming that the Roman emperor Constantine had handed over Rome to the total control of the pope
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Category: Templar History
Tags: christianity, constantine, Constantine the Great, donation, Donation of Constantine, forgery, Lateran Palace, middle ages, Roman Empire, rome, Silvester
Medieval medicine appears very strange to people today. Disease was associated with sin and wrongdoing as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Anglo-Saxon, black death, Bubonic Plague, channel 4, Disease, illness, medicine, Medieval, Middle Age, Roman Empire, Tony Robinson
The Templars are often accused of being gay or more particularly sodomites but this may have been a propaganda slur
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Anal sex, Catholic, Catholic Church, confess, equality, faith, gay, heresy, homosexual, king, Knight Templar, lesbian, lgbt, LGBTQ, London, man, marriage, Medieval, men, middle ages, Philip, queer, religion, Roman Empire, sentence, sodomy, Templar, torture, trial, woman
It’s been argued repeatedly that the Knights Templar were set up to defend the Bloodline of Jesus but Tony McMahon sets out to uncover the truth
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Alabaster Jar, allah, Baignet, Cathar, Cathars, Catholic Church, christ, christian, christianity, Clive Prince, code, da vinci, Dan Brown, desposyni, Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Holy Grail, jesus, judaism, Leigh, Lincoln, Lynn Picknett, Magdalen, Margaret Starbird, Mary, Mary Magdalene, messiah, Nag Hammadi, Paul, Philip, Qumran, Revelation, Roman Empire, sang, Scorsese, swoon, Templar, The Jesus Scroll, Tim Wallace-Murphy, Vezelay, wife
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