I’m visiting Israel at the moment and just went to the holocaust museum in Tel Aviv. Obviously one reflects on the appalling Nazi holocaust – but I also thought about those many centuries of pogroms and persecutions that Jews faced across Europe. In the Templar period, Jewish people were massacred during the frenzy whipped up…
Images from a visit by Templar expert Tony McMahon to the Holy Sepulchre in 2012. This church is the reputed sight of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Templar expert Tony McMahon visits the site of the Last Supper in Jerusalem which also happens to be the site of King David’s tomb
Did the Knights Templar join a sect that venerated John the Baptist? Did they become gnostics – a form of heresy condemned by the Roman Catholic church?
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was once the site of the Jewish Temple but it was also the HQ for the Knights Templar
Jaffa was a hugely important city in the Crusades – now increasingly absorbed by Tel Aviv in modern Israel
Jacques de Molay is a character in Assassins Creed but he existed in real life so Tony McMahon sets out to compare the video game and reality
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the fiery queen of King Henry II and the most powerful woman in Europe as Tony McMahon discovers
Esquin of Floyran was a traitor who betrayed the Knights Templar and played a key role in their trials. Tony McMahon explains.
The Knights Templar in medieval Spain were at the forefront of the long war against the Muslim caliphate that eventually resulted in victory
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