Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates the defleshing of bodies in the Crusades – a process called excarnation
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Category: Templar History
Tags: ban, body, boil, burial, buried, cook, dead, death, deflesh, defleshing, emperor, eviscerate, evisceration, excarnation, fire, flesh, history, kill, king, Knightfall, murder, noble, pope, skeleton, strip, Templar, today, zombie
Tony McMahon searches for the exact spot where Templar grand master Jacques de Molay was executed in Paris
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, 1314, Île de la Cité, bridge, buried, burning, death, execution, expert, grand master, historian, history, jacques de molay, knight, Knightfall, mcmahon, monument, paris, place, Pont Neuf, site, stake, Templar, today, Tony, trial
A visit to Istanbul – once called Constantinople and capital of the Byzantine Empire
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Category: Templar History
Tags: baphomet, blind, Blue Mosque, byzantine, christ, Cistern, constantinople, crusade, Dan Brown, Dandolo, doge, empire, Enrico, faith, fourth, Galata, god, Hagia Sophia, Holiday, hotel, Inferno, istanbul, James Bond, Karavan, Knightfall, Ottoman, safe, Templar, tourism, tourist, tower, weekend
This blog started way back in 2010 – and I’ve gone back and compiled the top ten most popular blog posts over the last eight years. There are some that are no longer top scoring on the views front –…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ark of the Covenant, arn, barbara, Bradford, braveheart, buried, Catholic, chance, christopher, fact, festival, fortuna, fortune, game of thrones, Geese, Guillou, Helen Nicholson, history, Holy Grail, Jan Guillou, jerusalem, jewish, jews, Kabbala, kabbalah, Kingdom of Heaven, Knightfall, knights, Literature, lottery, luck, Medieval, middle ages, Nätterqvist, Nicholas, orlando bloom, OSMTH, Outlaw king, pantaleon, professor, Ridley Scott, rite, ritual, rome, sacked, Safed, saint, saints, secret, Solomon, sorte, Southwark, suerte, sweden, Swedish, Templar, templars, Temple, truth, turin shroud, vatican, Winchester
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
Tags: abbey, altar, Augustinian, burial, canon, Canute, chancel, church, cloister, cross, Denny, dissolution, eleanor, england, essex, flint, grave, Harold, Hastings, Henry II, Holy Cross, monasteries, monastery, Montacute, nave, norman, priest, priory, Reformation, Saxon, site, somerset, Templar, tomb, Tovi, Viking, Waltham
What was a medieval Christmas really like? Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates Christmas in the Middle Ages
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Category: Knights Templar, Templar History
Tags: abbot, Ancient, blind, buff, carol, Christmas, dark, dulci, egg, feast, feasting, game, games, goose, jubilo, light, Lord, Medieval, middle ages, mike oldfield, misrule, modern, sun, Templar, turkey, unreason, wassail, wassailing, winter solstice, Yule, yuletide
The insane theory developed by the Nazis linking Atlantis, Aryan racial theory and the Templars
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: apes, Aryan, Atlantean, Atlantis, Cathar, Chateau, cosmic, Darwin, Earth, Einstein, evolution, Hans Hörbiger, heresy, Himmler, hitler, Horbiger, ice, meteor, nazi, planet, racist, relativity, Rennes, Templar, tomar, World
The most popular Google search terms used when seeking information on the Knights Templar
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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
Templar expert Tony McMahon examines how loyal and brave the Knights Templar actually were in reality
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ascalon, Ashkelon, battle, beausant, brave, bravery, buried, burnt, de molay, De Tramelay, Foreign Legion, history, Holy Land, hype, Islam, jerusalem, knight, Knightfall, knights, loyalty, military, Montgisard, muslim, nine, rule, saladin, saracen, SAS, Spartan, stake, standard, Templar, templars, Tremelay, tyre, war, William
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
Tags: ago, alive, ancestor, ancestors, ancestry, ancestry dot com, Ancestry.com, antecedent, aunt, Balantrodoch, book, burnt, chapel, cousin, daughter, dead, destroyed, Domesday, family, find, genealogy, generation, Grand, great, Guildhall, historic, history, ireland, knight, knights, livery, London, long, medieval, MyHeritage, names, online, parent, past, places, probate, removed, resource, rosslyn, Scotland, site, son, Templar, time, tree, uncle, wales
