America Unearthed is a great documentary series presented by Scott Wolter on Travel Channel and he investigats a Templar mystery with Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: america, America Unearthed, Ashley Cowie, carving, caves, chapel, chart, escape, Exodus of the Templars, fact, flee, idea, journey, knight, La Merica, La Rochelle, navigation, Newfoundland, rosslyn, Scotland, Scott Wolter, ship, star, Templar, theory, Travel Channel, United States, USA, Venus, Viking, Wemyss
One wintry evening, I found myself on my own in Rosslyn chapel after the visitors had left. So – the Templar Knight blog to to investigate the secrets of this fascinating medieval place of worship. And of course – the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: america, Ark, Bannockburn, chapel, discovery, Grail, knight, knights, La Merica, Medieval, mystery, rosslyn, Scotland, Scott Wolter, Templar, templars, Travel, unearthed
The intrepid Scott Wolter (pictured above with me) has been back on American TV screens once more with his incredible investigative series America Unearthed. I was honoured to be asked to hook up with Scott in Scotland to unearth clues…
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Category: Templar Mystery
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Templar expert Tony McMahon guides you on finding your Templar ancestors in England, Ireland and Scotland using online resources and local parish records
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Category: Templar News
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Medieval chess resembled our modern game in most respects but there were key differences in how pieces moved and the board appearance
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: actor, British Museum, chess, chessmen, cinema, death, Film, king, lewis, Max, Medieval, medieval chess, movie, queen, Scotland, Scottish, sweden, Swedish, Sydow, Templar, The Seventh Seal, Trondheim, vintage, von
One of the greatest mysteries relating to the Knights Templar is whether the order discovered some form of treasure in Jerusalem that would offer an explanation for their fabulous wealth. And was that treasure hidden, as has been alleged, at…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Ark, Baldwin, chapel, covenant, crusades, Grail, jerusalem, patriarch, Poussin, rosslyn, Scotland, Solomon, Templar, templars, Teutonic knights, treasure, Vinland
Nothing is more calculated to wind up a Scottish nationalist than to suggest that King Robert the Bruce needed help from the Knights Templar to win the Battle of Bannockburn in June 1314. We did it ourselves! They will cry…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Bannockburn, battle, braveheart, bruce, Chris Pine, Edward, king, outlaw, Outlaw king, robert, rosslyn, Scotland, Scottish, Templar, treasure
Magna Carta is a surprisingly progressive charter for the year 1215 and some of its provisions border on being feminist as Tony McMahon reports
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1215, british, British values, church, feminist, John, king, Magna Carta, prime minister David Cameron, prison, runnymede, Scotland, Templar, terrorism, values, wales
Who murdered the Knights Templar and what was the motive? Tony McMahon plays a medieval game of Cluedo to find the answers to this mystery
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Al-Aqsa Mosque, Battle of Al-Mansurah, buried, Cathars, Cluedo, clues, De Nogaret, death, detective, france, hidden, Holy Land, horror, hospitaller, Hospitallers, Knight Templar, Knightfall, knights, Knights Hospitaller, La Rochelle, murder, murdered, mystery, Philip IV of France, Phillippe the Bel, Scotland, sinclair, Templar, templars, tony mcmahon, torture, treasure
Michael Fassbender played Macbeth in the 2015 movie and also starred in Assassins Creed – a film that features the Templars as baddies
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Assassins, bad, corrupt, creed, devil, evil, Fassbinder, king, Macbeth, magic, Medieval, Orson Welles, plot, Polanski, power, Scotland, Shakespeare, Templar, witch
