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2017.
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English
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Jerusalem 1119. A small group of knights seeking a purpose in the violent aftermath of the First Crusade decides to set up a new order. These are the first Knights of Templar, a band of elite warriors prepared to give their lives to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Over the next two hundred years, the Templars would become the most powerful religious order of the medieval world. Their legend has inspired fervent speculation ever since....
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"When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near the idyllic French town of St. Denis, chief of police Bruno Courr©·ges suspects a connection to the great ruin that stands above: a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold. With the help of Am©â™lie, a young newcomer to the Dordogne, Bruno learns that the dead woman was an archaeologist searching for a religious artifact of incredible importance. And her ties to Islamic terrorists--not to mention...
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Army Ranger Lt. Col. John Holliday had resigned himself to ending his career teaching at West Point. When his uncle passes away, Holliday discovers a medieval sword wrapped in Adolf Hitler's personal battle standard. But when someone burns down his uncle's house in an attempt to retrieve the sword, Holliday realizes that he's being drawn into a war that has been fought for centuries - a war in which he may be the next casualty.
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David Scott
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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It's 13th October 1307, and the arrest of key Templar Knights, by order of King Philip IV, marks the beginning of the end for this Christian Order.What happened to the Templar treasure?Why are the Templar vaults empty? Why is the Templar Fleet no longer at La Rochelle? And just where has the Holy Grail gone? The book reveals all
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population.The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start of a narrative of desperate struggle and relentless loss. In little more than a century Acre would be destroyed, the Franks driven from Outremer, and the Templars themselves, reviled and disgraced,...
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Skyhorse
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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The most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages and their sacred treasure.
For a certain period in history, the Knights Templar—the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages—secretly guarded the Shroud of Turin. Worshipped in a relentlessly secret manner, and known in its intimate nature by only a handful of the order's officials, the swathe of fabric was kept in the central treasury of the Knights...
For a certain period in history, the Knights Templar—the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages—secretly guarded the Shroud of Turin. Worshipped in a relentlessly secret manner, and known in its intimate nature by only a handful of the order's officials, the swathe of fabric was kept in the central treasury of the Knights...
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Roddy McGinnis is supervising a dig in a medieval dungeon when he unearths the journal of Peter Stirling, a 16th Century Scottish Knight, that had died there after being tortuted to reveal the location of the gold treasury of the Knights Templar.
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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In Ethiopia, Charles Bronson and Angela Lewis are on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant. But it looks like their luck is running out. Until, that is, a new avenue springs open in Southern France. Meanwhile the Vatican is getting worried. Their best people are tracking the Ark, but so are a mysterious group operating from Jerusalem. Both are prepared to use deadly force. As the net closes in around the most powerful artefact in history and the greatest...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the rise of the West--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Templars. When the once-mighty city of Rome was sacked by barbarians in 410 and lay in ruins, it signaled the end of an era--and the beginning of a thousand years of profound transformation. In a gripping narrative bursting with big names--from St. Augustine and Attila the Hun to the...
12) King of storms
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Grand Central Publishing
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English
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Lady Sidony Macleod is tired of being the youngest -- always the last to do anything. Also the worst at making decisions, Sidony is generally content to have others lead. But fate and the Night Templars have other plans for her. Sir Giffard (Giff) Maclennan, a knight and highland firebrand, is chosen to lead a top secret mission for his brethren, the Knight Templars; and to keep the Earl of Fife, who is hunting the secret that Giff is hiding, guessing....
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A company of knights chosen to deliver a sealed trunk from the Templar treasury in Jerusalem to safekeeping in Paris. A group of pilgrims seeking the protection of the Templars to return home as the Saracens prepare to besiege the city. A mysterious treasure that someone will even kill to possess...When the Templar knight Gaston learns that he has inherited his father's estate in France, he accepts one last quest for the order and agrees to deliver...
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Champions of Saint Euphemia volume 3
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Deborah A. Cooke
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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A company of knights chosen to deliver a sealed trunk from the Templar treasury in Jerusalem to safekeeping in Paris. A group of pilgrims seeking the protection of the Templars to return home as the Saracens prepare to besiege the city. A mysterious treasure that someone will even kill to possess... His dream of becoming a knight achieved, Bartholomew heads home to avenge his parents--only to find himself hunted and in need of the assistance of a...
15) Unbroken in Time
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The Morgan-Stanwood Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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In 1282, David and his sister Anna crashed through time to save the life of their father, the last Prince of Wales. Thirteen years later, David is a grown man--husband, father, and High King of Britain. He is also the Duke of Aquitaine, a fact which King Philip of France appears to resent. So when Philip summons David to Paris to bend the knee for the right to remain Aquitaine's duke, David is the first to suspect treachery. And when he learns Philip...
16) Templar
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Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Martin isn't exactly the most steadfast or pious knight, but he does manage to escape when the king of France and the pope massacre the Templars and steal their legendary treasure. In fact, Martin rises to the occasion. He rallies a small force of surviving Templars, and together the band hatches an audacious plan ... to steal the world's greatest treasure out from under the king's nose.
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James Acton volume 4
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UnderMill Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A USA Today Bestseller and #1 Bestselling Action Adventure novel on Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and Kobo! *** With over 800,000 copies sold and over 3000 Five-Star reviews, it's time to discover the world of Archaeology Professor James Acton! *** If you enjoy action-packed thrillers, then don't miss The Templar's Relic, an international bestseller from J. Robert Kennedy, "a master story teller" (Betty Richard) and "one of the best writers today"...
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English
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"For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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There was no sign of life. But not for a second did Pascoe admit the possibility of death. Dalziel was indestructible. Dalziel is, and was, and forever shall be, world without end, amen. Everybody knew that. Therein lay half his power. Chief constables might come and chief constables might go, but Fat Andy went on forever. Caught in the blast of a huge explosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel lies on a hospital bed, with only a life support...