The Templar Knight
Mysteries of the Knights Templar
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More on Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame playing a Templar in Knightfall
The latest news on Mark Hamill of Star Wars fame playing a Templar knight in Knightfall on the History channel
Read MoreWas Jacques De Molay really the last Grand Master of the Templars?
Templar expert Tony McMahon investigates whether there was another Grand Master called Larmenius appointed by Jacques De Molay before he was burned at the stake
Read MoreDo the Templars control the world today?
I meet and talk to people in very different situations who are convinced that the Knights Templar in some guise or other control the world. How do they come to this view? A few months ago, I was talking to…
Read MoreThe Dark Truths of the Templars – watch me on TV expose some secrets
I will be appearing as a guest several times in a special edition of Forbidden History devoted to exposing the secrets of the Knights Templar. Presented by Jamie Theakston and broadcast on UKTV/Yesterday TV, Forbidden History asks the questions you…
Read MoreWhat were the Templars up to in their first decade of existence?
According to the contemporary chronicler William of Tyre, nine “noble men of knightly rank” from the Champagne region of France founded the Templar order in the year 1118. So what they do in their first ten years? Well, the answer…
Read MoreWhere did all the Templar treasure disappear to?
It’s vexed many down the ages. The Templars were warriors, monks and medieval bankers. They ran a financial system through their preceptories that spanned Europe and funded their crusades in the Holy Land and Al-Andalus (modern Spain and Portugal). Kings…
Read MoreDid the Templars find anything under the Temple of Solomon?
The nine knights who founded the Knights Templar petitioned the Patriarch of Jerusalem in 1119 to establish their headquarters in what had been the Al Aqsa mosque – before the crusaders seized the city in 1099, putting an end to…
Read MoreHow pagan temples became Christian churches in the Middle Ages – part three
Last month I was in Rome and one theme of my trip was looking at pagan temples of the Roman period that were then converted into Christian churches during the Middle Ages. In the middle of the Roman Forum are…
Read MoreHow pagan temples became Christian churches in the Middle Ages – part one
I was in Rome last month and saw evidence of pagan temples converted into Christian churches – either by being converted for new use or rebuilt using materials from the old temple. When the Roman emperor Constantine embraced Christianity, he…
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