Templar controlled Acre in the Holy Land was a mix of Las Vegas and London – a cosmopolitan fleshpot in the Middle Ages
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Category: Templar History
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Templar expert Tony McMahon examines how loyal and brave the Knights Templar actually were in reality
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A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
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How White Supremacists and Islamist extremists exploit the Middle Ages for their own political gain
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How the Knights Templar survived in Portugal by changing their name
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At the Templar castle of Kerak in Jordan is a carved image that was once believed to be Saladin but actually is a thousand years older
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Category: Templar History
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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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The idea that crusaders and Knights Templar were also cannibals who ate other humans during the Crusades is shocking and disturbing
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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 year was 1314 and near to 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, it…
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