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The Knights Templar: everything you wanted to know

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The New Myth About the Tempelars

There's a new myth about the templars supposed head which is one of the charges that brought against them for which there is no evidence except that they venerated saint's heads. Wulfram von Echembach rewrote the story of the holy grail so that his grail castle when you get there is guarded by a templizer but actually the German word for templars was temple heron temple lords not templizer. The fact they have doves on their shield rather than a cross on their shield shows they're not templar knights as we know them.

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