Tony McMahon looks at evidence that the Knights Templar were infiltrated by spies sent in by the King of France
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Category: Templar History
Tags: 1307, 13th, arrest, buried, burning, de molay, De Nogaret, death, discovery, evidence, execution, france, friday, Guillaume, head, history, Knightfall, knights, Medieval, minister, moles, Philip, spies, Templar, templars, today, torture, trial, William
The BBC is broadcasting a new TV series based on The Name of the Rose – a fantastic novel by the late Italian author Umberto Eco. It tells the story of a Franciscan friar, William of Baskerville, who visits an…
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Category: Templar History
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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
A special investigation by the Templar Knight blog into medieval allegations that human meat was eaten by soldiers during the Crusades
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Category: Templar History
Tags: cannibal, cannibalism, christian, cook, crusade, crusades, death, Disease, eat, human, Islam, jewish, knighs, massacre, meat, Medieval, moor, muslim, plague, pogrom, pot, Rhineland, saracen, serf, starving, tafur, Tafurs, Templar, tyre, William
The medieval contemporaries of the Knights Templar who hated the order and criticised them
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Category: Templar History
Tags: avarice, buried, chronicler, critic, greed, history, knight, Knightfall, knights, Matthew Paris, Medieval, money, news, pope, revenue, Saxon, sodomy, Templar, tyre, Walter Map, William
William De Nogaret is a leading character in Knightfall – but who was he in real life?
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: Albigensian, Boniface, Cathar, corrupt, france, Guillaume, history, Holy Grail, Julian Ovenden, Knightfall, knights, money, murder, news, Nogaret, Philip, pope, rome, Templar, today, treasure, William
The first ten years of the Knights Templar is shrouded in mystery as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: buried, decade, early, faith, Grail, history, jerusalem, Knightfall, knights, middle ages, payens, quest, reason, Solomon, Templar, Temple, ten, treasure, tyre, William, years
The Knights Templar got a terrible write up from medieval chroniclers like Walter Map and William of Tyre
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Category: Templar History
Tags: America Unearthed, author, bishop, cave, chronicler, Forbidden History, history, Holy Land, Honorius, Knight Templar, lies, Matthew Paris, medieval, middle ages, monk, omne datum optimum, parchment, pope, propaganda, quill, Scott Wolter, scribe, Templar, Troyes, truth, tyre, Walter Map, Wemyss, William, writer
Many Knights Templar ended up being interrogated within the high walls of the Tower of London and made to confess all manner of crimes
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Quest For The True Cross is a Templar adventure novel by Tony McMahon
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Category: Templar Mystery
Tags: adventure, amazon, author, barnes, book, buried, crime, death, Knightfall, middle ages, murder, mystery, noble, novel, Pathros, publish, saracen, Templar, templars, today, True Cross, Waterstones, William, william de mandeville
