This concise yet insightful tome was first published in 2005.

A history of King Richard 1st, known as Lionheart and his crusades to the Holy Land.

If we went back in time, we would see that animals have always been on this planet since time immemorial.

The Teutonic Knights had been established in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade. In just over ten years, they amassed large holdings of land within the Holy Roman Empire, as well as lands in the Holy Land, France, and Eastern Europe. Their houses and hospitals were scattered over the continent and even into the Byzantine Empire.

Popes arer crazy.

The fantastic story of a piece of traditional Irish heritage that may well be, in truth, anything but.

The Crusades into the Holy Land instigated monastic orders armed with swords instead of words. One of these orders of knights came to be known as the Teutonic Knights. Their members were mainly recruited from German lands, but also from other parts of the Holy Roman Empire. A late comer, it soon got into trouble with the established Knights Templar.

The Crusades into the Holy Land instigated monastic orders armed with swords instead of words. One of these orders of knights came to be known as the Teutonic Knights. Their members were mainly recruited from German lands, but also from other parts of the Holy Roman Empire. A late comer, it soon got into trouble with the established Knights Templar.

You could say that the Knights Templar were the creators of the first international commercial banking system on Earth.

In 1938, Germany’s Nazi regime outlawed the German Order and requisitioned all its possessions. Austria followed suit the same year. But this requisitioning of goods was only the last act in a long story of misappropriation of the order’s history to suit Nazi ideals.