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Read MoreHow did the Crusades start?
In the year 1095, Pope Urban II addressed a huge crowd at the town of Clermont in France and urged them to do something new and very exciting – to march east and fight the forces of Islam. Something terrible…
Read MoreWhy were the Knights Templar formed?
To find the Holy Grail of course! Well, that’s if you subscribe to the Dan Brown view of things. But what was the official narrative for the foundation of the Templars? Michael Haag in his book ‘The Templars’ recounts the…
Read MoreA Pope calls for a Crusade against Islam
The year was 1095. In the east, the Greek speaking Byzantine empire – inheritors of what had been left of the eastern Roman empire – had experienced a huge loss of territory to the Seljuk Turks. These nomads had swept…
Read MoreThe day a Pope gave the Templars a big thumbs up
How the papacy gave the Knights Templar official recognition making the knights answerable only to Rome
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