The murder of Thomas Becket was celebrated on the fifth day of Christmas to remember his killing in the year 1170 as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 29 December, A Becket, Archbishop, becket, beckett, book, canterbury, cathedral, Christmas, Film, Henry VIII, movie, murder, pilgrims, play, Richard Burton, saint, T S Elliot, Templar, thomas becket, tomb
Back in 1976, aged 12, I was taken to see the mummified body of a crusader at the church of Saint Michan’s in Dublin, Ireland, The decayed corpse was in the crypt of an ancient church lying in an opened…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 2019, church, corpse, crusader, Dublin, head, ireland, Medieval, michan, police, robbed, saint, skeleton, skull, stolen, Templar, theft
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 most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: arn, Arn Magnusson, banking, baphomet, baptist, battle, byzantine, De Nogaret, empire, fiction, france, google, Guillou, head, invade, Iran, jewish, jews, John, king, Knightfall, knights, Landry, lending, Manzikert, money, OSMTH, Philip, real, saint, saints, search, seljuk, Sverige, sweden, Swedish, Templar, term, today, war, worship
The murder of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Henry II led to a massive pay out to the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar History
Tags: altar, assassin, assassination, becket, beckett, canterbury, death, FitzUrse, henry, ireland, jerusalem, John, killed, knight, lionheart, mcmahon, Medieval, money, murder, richard, saint, Templar, Thomas, thomas a becket, treasure, veneration
Christmas. What’s not to like? The decorations, pudding, cake, fir tree decked with lights, Santa Claus and his little elves. Now imagine a Christmas without any of these things. Then you’re getting closer to Yuletide at the time of the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: bethlehem, birth, bishop, boy, Christmas, crib, jesus, king, knight, Knightfall, manger, medieval, mummer, mumming, Nicholas, peacock, queen, saint, Templar, wassail, wassailing, Yule
A discovery in Lisbon… This year, I was walking up a steep hill in Lisbon to visit the medieval cathedral. The cathedral is a very austere, fortress-like construction and that’s no accident. It was built in the years after a…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Al-usbuna, blood, body, cathedral, catholic, church, clothes, faith, feet, hair, hands, head, idol, jesus, knight, Lisboa, Lisbon, mannequin, miracle, naked, procession, puppet, saint, sin, Soumrak templářů, statue, Templar, worship
Five key places mentioned in the Templar novel Quest for the True Cross by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Abelard, barn, bernard, Clairvaux, Cressing Temple, cross, Dome, Edessa, essex, history, hotspot, jerusalem, knight, knights, lignum crucis, London, medieval, quest, Quest for the True Cross, Rock, saint, Templar, templars, Temple, today, tony mcmahon, True Cross, Witham
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
During the Templar period, the patron saint of Venice wasn’t Saint Mark but Saint Theodore of Amasea. He was one of those martyrs during the Roman period. His statue was placed on top of a pillar in what is now…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Amasea, Dandolo, doge, medieval, patron, roman, saint, Templar, Theodore, Venetian, Venice
