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In 1307, members of the Knights Templar in the Kingdom of France were suddenly charged with heresy and arrested after their leader, Master Jacques de Molay, had recently come to France for meetings with Pope Clement V. [1] Many, including their leader, were burned at the stake while others were sentenced to perpetual imprisonment. The events in ...
Coat of arms of Jacques de Molay. Jacques de Molay (French: [də mɔlɛ]; c. 1240–1250 [1] – 11 or 18 March 1314 [2]), also spelled "Molai", [3] was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar, leading the order sometime before 20 April 1292 until it was dissolved by order of Pope Clement V in 1312.
Templars being burned at the stake.. Eventually King Philip's Inquisitors succeeded in making Jacques de Molay confess to the charges. [8] On 18 March 1314, de Molay and de Charney recanted their confessions, stating they were innocent of the charges and they were only guilty of betraying their Order by confessing under duress to something they did not do.
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici and French: Pauvres Chevaliers du Christ et du Temple de Salomon) are also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, and mainly the Knights Templar (French: Les Chevaliers Templiers), or simply the Templars (French: Les Templiers).
The Knights Templar were an elite fighting force of their day, highly trained, well-equipped, and highly motivated; one of the tenets of their religious order was that they were forbidden from retreating in battle, unless outnumbered three to one, and even then only by order of their commander, or if the Templar flag went down.
The charges brought against Hugues de Pairaud are similar to those brought against all the others during the Knights Templar Trial.Pairaud was implicated in the worship of false idols by Raoul de Gizy, who claimed to have seen a mysterious head in seven Templar houses, some of them held by Hugues de Pairaud. [4]
Templars burned at the stake. Painting made in 1480. 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. [40]
— Jacques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar (11 or 18 March 1314), before being burned at the stake "King of heaven, do thou have mercy on me, for the king of earth hath forsaken me." [15]: 111 [note 39] — Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (22 March 1322), before beheading for treason against his cousin, Edward II of England