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Resurrection: Ertugrul – medieval epic TV from Turkey

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Tony McMahon

Category: Templar History Tags: America Unearthed, battle, constantinople, crusaders, Diriliş: Ertuğrul, east, Ertugrul, Ertuğrul, Forbidden History, hospitaller, istanbul, Kayi, knights, knights templar, mongol, Osman, Ottoman, Resurrection: Ertugrul, seljuk, Templar, tony mcmahon, west

Knights Templar – your Google search terms reviewed!

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Tony McMahon

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The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar

Category: Templar History Tags: arn, Arn Magnusson, banking, baphomet, baptist, battle, byzantine, De Nogaret, empire, fiction, france, google, Guillou, head, invade, Iran, jewish, jews, John, king, Knightfall, knights, Landry, lending, Manzikert, money, OSMTH, Philip, real, saint, saints, search, seljuk, Sverige, sweden, Swedish, Templar, term, today, war, worship

Medieval divide between Muslims and Christians

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Tony McMahon

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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

Category: Templar History Tags: boundaries, boundary, byzantine, Capella, catholic, chapel, Charlton, christian, christianity, constantine, Cordoba, Davides, El Cid, Evora, Geraldo, Heston, histfic, history, iraq, ISIS, Islam, jewish, knights, knights templar, Loren, medieval, Mozarab, muslim, norman, Ottoman, palatina, Palatine, Roger, seljuk, Sem Pavor, Sevilla, Seville, Sicily, Sisnando, Sophia, syria, Templar

Were the Crusades based on medieval Fake News?

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Tony McMahon

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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

Category: Templar History Tags: 1099, byzantine, ByzantineEmpire, constantinople, crusade, fake, fake news, Fatimid, Islam, jerusalem, Medieval, middle east, muslim, Pope Urban, Pope Urban II, seljuk, Templar

Why were the Knights Templar formed?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Tony McMahon

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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…

Category: Templar History Tags: 1118, christian, crusade, history, History Channel, Holy Grail, Islam, knight, Knightfall, knights, Medieval, muslim, papacy, pope, rome, seljuk, Solomon, Templar, today, turk, war