The Templar Knight
Mysteries of the Knights Templar
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How White Supremacists and Islamists exploit the Middle Ages
How White Supremacists and Islamist extremists exploit the Middle Ages for their own political gain
Read MoreHow the Templars became the Order of Christ in Portugal
How the Knights Templar survived in Portugal by changing their name
Read MoreCannibals on crusade – eating flesh in the Middle Ages
Say the word ‘cannibal’ and most people in the west have been brought up to think of some tribe of man eating savages located in the deepest jungle, maybe in a place like Borneo. But in a recent book on…
Read MoreCyprus and the Knights Templar – a grim Easter anniversary!
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is now racked by a financial crisis. Demonstrators have taken to the streets in their thousands as savers have been forced to hand up to as much as 10% of their savings to bail out…
Read MoreLast Templar Grand Master executed on March 18th
The year was 1314 and in front of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burnt at the stake in front of a huge crowd. After two hundred years of crusading,…
Read MoreThe mummified heart of Richard the Lionheart
King Richard the first of England – better known as Lionheart – was killed by a boy using a crossbow during a siege in France, defending his ancestral holdings. Richard was not only king in England but duke of both…
Read MoreThe spooky crypt in a Portuguese Franciscan church
Igreja de São Francisco – or the church of Saint Francis in English – is a fascinating place. In the first quarter of the 13th century, Franciscans started to build a church and cloister. Over the next two hundred years,…
Read MoreThe Battle for Acre – disaster for the Knights Templar
In 2012, I visited the ancient town of Acre in modern Israel (now called Akko). It’s still dominated by the castle built by the Knights Templar and underneath this might medieval construction is a secret tunnel – its purpose still…
Read MoreThe Battle of Hattin – from the Saracen point of view
For eight centuries, fans of the crusades have rightly held their heads in shame at the memory of the battle known as the Horns of Hattin. It was here that Saladin brilliantly ran rings round the Templar and Christian forces…
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