There wasn’t just one crusade but multiple crusades in medieval Europe from modern Spain all the way up to Russia as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, Albigensian, armor, armour, Baltics, battle, Cathar, constantinople, crusade, crusades, Cyprus, Dandolo, doge, fourth, heresy, Holy Land, Iberian, indulgence, innocent, knight, knights, Medieval, Moors, pagan, papal, plenary, pope, Templar, Teutonic, Venice
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
On the blog, I’ve shown you examples of Roman buildings reused in the medieval period – in Rome and York for example. But Roman statues were also refashioned. Sometimes in rather peculiar ways. Medieval statue in Venice is Roman stuff…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Amasea, Dandolo, doge, medieval, patron, roman, saint, Templar, Theodore, Venetian, Venice
The Fourth Crusade saw the most appalling war crime when crusaders funded by Venice destroyed a Christian city – Constantinople. Venice is now an over-visited historical tourist resort in northern Italy subject to flooding and beset of late by the…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: battle, byzantine, Catholic Church, constantinople, crusade, Dandolo, destroy, diocletian, doge, horses, innocent, muslim, pillage, plunder, pope, prison, rape, San Marco, Templar, tetrarch, Venice, war
A Christian city destroyed by Christian crusaders – such was the fate of Constantinople. It had resisted waves of invaders from Bulgars to Russians and the Muslim emirates. But it was brought to its knees by people it should have…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1204, blind, byzantine, constantinople, crusade, Dandolo, doge, empire, Fourth Crusade, Hagia Sophia, istanbul, middle ages, Venice
The devil wasn’t always ugly but was once the most handsome of the angels. So, Tony McMahon asks, how did he get to be such a monster?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Assumption of Mary, BBC Four, casting, christ, christianity, devil, exorcism, Giotto, god, handsome, Judas Iscariot, Lincoln Cathedral, lucifer, middle ages, out, Ravenna, roman, satan, ugly, Venice, Winchester Psalter
Constantinople was destroyed during the Fourth Crusade – a treacherous act by Christian crusaders in the year 1204 led by Venice
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Category: Templar History
Tags: byzantine, crusade, Dandolo, doge, Fourth Crusade, Hagia, knight, Sophia, Templar, Theodosius II, Venetian, Venice