Resurrection: Ertugrul is a hugely successful medieval historical TV drama series on Netflix where the Knights Templar are the bad guys
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Category: Templar History
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The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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The boundary between the medieval Muslim and Christian worlds was very fluid and certain individuals had no difficulty moving from one world to the other
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Medieval fake news may have started two hundred years of Crusades with a forged letter from the Byzantine emperor to the Christian west begging for help
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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…
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Pope Urban called for a crusade to defend the Byzantine empire against the Seljuk Turks who had converted to Islam and now approached Constantinople
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How the papacy gave the Knights Templar official recognition making the knights answerable only to Rome
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