# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malcolm-barber
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:36:33.758Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malcolm-barber"
name: "Malcolm Barber"
slug: "malcolm-barber"
description: "Malcolm Charles Barber is a British medievalist. He has been described as the world's leading living expert on the Knights Templar. He is considered to have written the two most comprehensive books on the subject, The Trial of the Templars (1978) and The New Knighthood: A History of the Order of the Temple (1994). He has been an editor for The Journal of Medieval History and written many articles on the Templars, the Cathars, various elements of the Crusades, and the reign of Philip IV of France."
tagline: "British historian (1943-)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-03-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  popularity:           41.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.079374666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Malcolm Barber"
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    title: "مالكوم باربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Malcolm Barber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مالکولم باربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Barber"
    title: "Malcolm Barber"
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    title: "Malcolm Barber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Barber"
    title: "Malcolm Barber"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump