Templar Archives

Horrific treatment of medieval Jewish people

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago920 mins

Jewish people in medieval Europe were treated in a horrific manner as TV historian Tony McMahon discovers in his investigations

Siege of Acre – disaster for the Knights Templar

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago38 mins

The Siege of Acre in 1291 saw the Mamluks overrun the crusader fortress defeating the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar

Quest for the True Cross – Templar action!

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago33 mins

Quest for the True Cross lets you experience medieval war at close range on a Knight Templar crusade in the 12th century at a bloody siege

Interview with the Ancient and Noble Order of The Knights Templar

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago77 mins

I’m very pleased to have reached out to The Ancient and Noble Order of the Knights Templar and they have kindly responded

Secret letters between the Popes and Mongols

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago49 mins

One of the weirdest diplomatic exchanges in history was between the medieval Popes and the invading Mongols from the east. Rome hoped it could convince these fearsome tribes not to attack Christians – and maybe even convert to Roman Catholicism. The Mongols responded with demands that the pope submit to their power. Incredibly, some of the letters from the Mongol khans have been kept in the Vatican Secret Archives for eight hundred years.

Massacre of Christians in Jerusalem

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago114 mins

In 1244, the holy city of Jerusalem fell to an alliance of Muslim forces led by a Khwarazmian army. The Christian and Jewish populations of the city were slaughtered and the bodies of the past crusader Kings of Jerusalem were dragged out of their tombs and thrown into the street.

The Children’s Crusade – a disaster

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago38 mins

Templar terminology can be very confusing so Tony McMahon helps you to understand what words like senschal and preceptory mean

The Fall of Jerusalem in 1187

Tony McMahon14 years ago1 year ago412 mins

During the Crusades, the holy city of Jerusalem was held for just under a century by Christian forces. It was taken at the start of the First Crusade in 1099 and then lost to the Muslim Saracens in 1187. One contemporary English chronicler, Roger of Hoveden (or Howden) described what happened. How was it that the crusaders lost control of Jerusalem?