Last French king imprisoned in Templar fortress
The Paris Temple ended up being the final prison for King Louis XVI before he was executed – an act often construed as the last vengeance of the Knights Templar

The Paris Temple ended up being the final prison for King Louis XVI before he was executed – an act often construed as the last vengeance of the Knights Templar
The Templar belief in anti-Christ was very strong – and may even have inspired the crusades with the belief that Jerusalem had to be retaken before the end of times
In 1309, the papal nuncios – Dieudonné, abbot of Lagny, and Sicard de Lavaur, canon of Narbonne – arrived in England with a mission. They were going to root out the Templars, put them on trial, and turbo-charge the proceedings against the order.
The Knights Templar were in Ireland not long after their formation in the twelfth century. Tony McMahon investigates.
The life of Jesus Christ in the four gospels of the New Testament is not exactly a comprehensive biography. In Luke and Matthew we get the birth story and earliest years of his life and then a yawning gap until we reach the last months of his life – the ministry of Jesus.
Baldwin IV – the leper king of Jerusalem. Tony McMahon appraises his achievements.
There are some truly bizarre relics of saints from the Middle Ages and the Templars were fond of collecting them
King Henry II used the Knights Templar to subdue the troublesome principality of Wales as Tony McMahon discovers
Here is the timeline for the arrest, trial and execution of the Knights Templar from the year 1307 onwards – described by TV historian Tony McMahon
Did the real Knights Templar hate the Assassins? Tony McMahon investigates
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