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The Big Lie that began the Crusades

The Big Lie that began the Crusades

A letter from the Byzantine emperor that was most likely forged

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Tony McMahon
Feb 04, 2022
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Greetings to Gold Level Templar Knight subscribers. The second part of this gripping history of the Knights Templar. A letter from the Byzantine emperor was the excuse for centuries of Crusades in the Middle East that resulting in the formation of the Knights Templar. But was that letter a forgery?

A ‘spurious letter’ from Constantinople

Were the crusades…

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