The year was 1314 and before the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, was burnt at the stake in front of a huge crowd. After two hundred years of crusading, it was all over for the Order of the Temple. It was all over…
Richard the Lionheart had his heart mummified after being killed during a siege and then the heart disappeared for centuries
Igreja de São Francisco – or the church of Saint Francis in Porto, Portugal – has a very creepy crypt!
The Siege of Acre in 1291 saw the Mamluks overrun the crusader fortress defeating the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar
Explaining the Crusades with Playmobil figures!
Quest For The True Cross is a Templar adventure novel by Tony McMahon
The crusaders and Knights Templar suffered a horrific defeat at the Battle of Hattin and Tony McMahon examines the Saracen point of view of their victory
Women were not just bystanders in the Crusades but participated as crusaders in full armour to the amazement of the Saracens
A terrible Saracen massacre of Knights Templar took place at Jacob’s Ford in 1179 – an event that still shocks today as Tony McMahon investigates
Even thought the Knights Templar are often referred to as warrior monks – they weren’t monks in the strictest sense of the word as Tony McMahon reports
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