Helen Nicholson talks about her book The Everyday Life of the Templars – a look at how the Templars lived and worked
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Category: Templar History
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Twenty years after the founding of the Templar Order, the rebel ‘anti-pope‘ Anacletus II had died and pope Innocent II was able to seize control of the church with the support of Bernard of Clairvaux and other senior clerics. There…
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Category: Templar History
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Saddlescombe is a Templar farm that shows us how the knights made money from farming to finance the crusades
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Category: Templar History
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Looking at how the Knights Templar developed an early banking system where money could be deposited
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Category: Templar History
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King Philip of France, as depicted in Knightfall, crushed the Templars because he was short of money
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Category: Templar History
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How did the Knights Templar make it harder for men like Robin Hood to rob the rich by operating a sophisticated financial system?
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