My direct ancestor was a Knights Templar who signed the Magna Carta

Really interesting, Never the twain shall meet, except in America.

It is always good to know where your warrior woman blood comes from. You are special. I loved doing my ancestry
All the great lines of families, it is a miracle

I understand the 'tombs' in The Temple church in London are not tombs but effigies. Each knight's body was buried elsewhere.

I'm trying to understand here, not diss, ok?

What is special enough to say outloud, I'm related to those who protect money? To those who did some ridiculously perverted stuff like smearing blood and perform blood sacrifices? Have bankers changed today?

I think you are selling yourself short.

First of all, it is very easy to have a tomb like that. All it cost is some money. It is actually much easier to design and build a family crypt than you may think. Do a little more research on the now instead of the then and you can do it.

Genealogy can be exciting and fun and interesting and sometimes you can learn several things that you never knew about.

I was fortunate in that my family has documentation tracing our family back to the 8th Century, but even in our family that is circumspect as often is the case, someone in the past created links and conclusion jumps based on limited information.

Congrats to you.

ye should run him through Madame and read his entrails....

Very cool! He was also my 25th Great Grandfather!!! Hello cousin!

I posted the above comment, and no I am not a coward!

He was also a high ranking Knights Templar, the crossed

legs are as on the skull and crossbones, the crossbones

being crossed leg bones, also the skull and crossbones

are found on many many Templar stones.

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You know who took them down right? Philip IV of France.
Just got done reading Robyn Young 'Brethren' trilogy. Was a fun & very interesting read.
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And.

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Scroll down to "Suppression of the Knights Templar"

In the shorter term, Philip arrested Jews so that he could seize their assets to accommodate the inflated costs of modern warfare, expelling 100,000 of them from his French territories on 22 July 1306 (see The Great Exile of 1306). At this point in his reign Philip was faced with extensive financial liabilities, partially inherited from his father's war against Aragon and partially incurred by the cost of his own campaigns against the English and their allies in Flanders.

This financial crisis led to rioting in Paris which forced Philip to briefly seek refuge in the Paris Temple - headquarters of the Knights Templar.

Philip was substantially in debt to the Knights Templar, a monastic military order whose original role as protectors of Christian pilgrims in the Latin East had been largely replaced by banking and other commercial activities by the end of the 13th century.[11] As the popularity of the Crusades had decreased, support for the military orders had waned, and Philip used a disgruntled complaint against the Knights Templar as an excuse to move against the entire organization as it existed in France, in part to free himself from his debts.

from the wiki link above post, the Knights Templar helped

him, and he burned them, never trust anyone named,

the fair,