The intrepid Scott Wolter has been back on American TV screens once more with his incredible investigative series America Unearthed. I was honoured to be asked to hook up with Scott in Scotland to unearth clues that might prove the…
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: america, Ashley, booty, chapel, Cowie, Crypt, discovery, earl, gold, Grail, henry, hidden, knight, knights, La Merica, mcmahon, mystery, riches, rosslyn, Scotland, Scott, Scott Wolter, sign, sinclair, star, Templar, templars, Tony, tony mcmahon, trail, Travel, treasure, unearthed, Viking, Wemyss, Wolter
If you look at the charges brought against the Knights Templar during their trials between 1307 and 1314, it’s difficult for the modern mind to make out whether they were being accused of undermining the church with false belief or…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, divine, guilty, heresy, heretics, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, magician, magicians, Medieval, modern, Nogaret, occult, sorcery, Templar, templars, today, wicca, witch, witches
In 1307, arrest warrants were issued for the Knights Templar from the King of France on charges of heresy, sodomy and conspiracy. This led to the trial over a seven year period of many knights including the leaders of the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Boccaccio, Boniface, burnt, Dante, Divine Comedy, fire, florence, france, Giovanni, guilty, italy, knight, Knightfall, Llull, stake, Templar, templars, trial
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
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
It’s often claimed that the Knights Templar were the first bankers or financiers so Tony McMahon investigates whether this is actually true
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Category: Templar History
Tags: banking, banks, bullion, buried, cheque, china, Chinese, christian, crown, crusades, deposit, fair, fairs, finance, france, Genoa, gold, henry III, hidden, Islam, islamic, jewels, king, Knightfall, knights, medieval, money, Oleron, paris, Philip, sector, Swiss, switzerland, templars, treasure, Troyes, Venice
Tony McMahon looks at what fascinates people about the Knights Templar including the bloodline of Jesus and their reputed treasure
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Category: Templar News
Tags: 13, 1307, 13th, ancestor, ancestry, Ancestry.com, Baignet, blood, bloodline, brotherhood, Carolingian, catholic, cave, Dan Brown, dynasty, era, execution, family, finance, financier, freemason, friday, genealogy, Grail, holy, initiation, jerusalem, knight, Lincoln, loyalty, medieval, merovingian, modern day, money, rite, roots, Templar, templars, today, today's, treasure, tree, trial, well
Tony McMahon is the author of the Templar adventure Quest for the True Cross and next year will be publishing a major investigation into the Knights Templar
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Category: Templar News
Tags: Audition, author, beard, beardy, Big, book, buff, buried, cross, Daily Mail, Forbidden, Hampton, Hampton Court, historian, history, ITV, Jamie Theakston, knights, knights templar, mcmahon, production, quest, Quest for the True Cross, show, sun, Templar, templars, The Big Audition, Tony, tony mcmahon, TV, twenty, UKTV
On 30 June, 2018, I’ll be speaking at a special event at the Bradford Literature Festival discussing the Knights Templar with medieval expert Professor Helen Nicholson and broadcaster Remona Aly will be in the chair. Expect a lively debate on…
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Category: Templar News
Tags: 2018, author, books, Bradford, buried, channel, festival, history, Knightfall, knights, Literature, mcmahon, medieval, mystery, news, Nicholson, Remona Aly, templars, today
Who was André de Montbard – fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar?
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Category: Templar History
Tags: André, army, battle, bernard, book, buried, cistercian, Clairvaux, de Montbard, grand master, history, Holy Land, jerusalem, Knightfall, leader, medieval, military, monk, rule, templars
