This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front –…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
The truth about Pope Boniface VIII and his struggle with King Philip of France
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: avignon, cash, Clement, france, kidnap, King Philip, knights, knights templar, le Bel, money, Nogaret, paris, Phillip, pope, Pope Boniface, riches, rome, Templar, the Fair, torture, treasure, VIII
William De Nogaret is a leading character in Knightfall – but who was he in real life?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, Cathar, corrupt, france, Guillaume, history, Holy Grail, Julian Ovenden, Knightfall, knights, money, murder, news, Nogaret, Philip, pope, rome, Templar, today, treasure, William
The Knights Templar have been accused of being gnostic and Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, Abraxas, Albigensian, Arian, assassin, bernard, Cathar, catholic, church, Clairvaux, crusade, gnostic, heresy, heretical, innocent, Inquisition, Ismaili, knights, man, medieval, Montferrat, mountain, murder, myth, Nogaret, old, Plato, pope, Puylaurens, rome, saladin, shia, Soumrak templářů, Templar, Toulouse, Waldensian
Before Dan Brown popularised the idea of the Templars defending the bloodline of Jesus, there was a 1980s bestseller that also promoted this theory. It was called The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail. One of its co-authors was a…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: 1956, 1979, BBC, buried, Chronicle, Czech, Da Vinci Code, Henry Lincoln, Holy Grail, jesus, Knightfall, knights, Langdon, last supper, Mary Magdalene, merovingian, painting, Plantard, pope, priory, rome, sion, Soumrak templářů, Teabing, Templar, Timewatch, today, treasure
On the back of the throne of Saint Peter in the Vatican there appears to be a Muslim inscription that has been kept secret
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: basilica, byzantine, Charles the Bald, crusader, Islam, Muhammad, pope, Prophet, rome, san pietro di castello, Shahadah, St Peters, Templar, throne
I was in Rome last month and discovered a Christian church built in the Middle Ages over not one – but THREE pagan temples! You could easily walk past this church but don’t – go in and ask permission to…
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I was in Rome last month and saw evidence of pagan temples converted into Christian churches – either being converted for new use or rebuilt using materials from the old temple. The Pantheon is a great example of a pagan…
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How English churches have radically transformed since the Knights Templar with the removal of rood screens and whitewashing of walls
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Category: Templar History
Tags: box, box pews, Catholic, christ, Christian Church, church, Holy Trinity Church, king, Knightfall, Mary, Medieval, Minster, normans, pews, Ricardian, richard, Richard III, rome, Trinity, Virgin Mary, York, Yorkist
Medieval walls were often built on top of earlier Roman fortifications as can be seen in York
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Castra, eboracum, history, middle ages, multangular, roman, Roman Emperor, rome, Septimius Severus, tower, York
