This week, in the English wintry sun, I visited a church packed with history – Waltham Abbey. It’s located in the county of Essex, just 15 minutes by train out of London. The church is famous for including the grave…
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Category: Templar History
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The medieval contemporaries of the Knights Templar who hated the order and criticised them
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Category: Templar History
Tags: avarice, buried, chronicler, critic, greed, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, Matthew Paris, Medieval, money, news, pope, revenue, Saxon, sodomy, Templar, tyre, Walter Map, William