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Philip IV (April–June 1268 – 29 November 1314), called Philip the Fair (French: Philippe le Bel), was King of France from 1285 to 1314. By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre , he was also King of Navarre and Count of Champagne as Philip I from 1284 to 1305.
On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this move, but it has also embellished the historical reputation of Clement V.
While waiting, de Molay and Clement discussed criminal charges that had been made two years earlier by an ousted Templar and were being discussed by King Philip IV of France and his ministers. It was generally agreed that the charges were false, but Clement sent King Philip a written request for assistance in the investigation.
Much of the Templar property outside France was transferred by the Pope to the Knights Hospitaller, and many surviving Templars were also accepted into the Hospitallers. In the Iberian Peninsula , where the king of Aragon was against giving the heritage of the Templars to the Hospitallers (as commanded by Clement V), the Order of Montesa took ...
King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Templars, had Molay and many other French Templars arrested in 1307 and tortured into making false confessions. When Molay later retracted his confession, Philip had him burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in front of Notre-Dame de Paris in March, 1314. [ 6 ]
The Knights Templar had been founded in the Holy Land as a crusading military order in the early 12th century. By the close of the 13th century they had gained swathes of lands in Europe, particularly France. King Philip IV of France had the members of the order in his kingdom arrested, accusing them of heretical practices.
Charles IV, King of France r. 1322–1328 Charles I, King of Navarre r. 1322–1328: Isabella of France (c. 1295 –1358) Edward of Caernarfon (1284–1327) Edward II, King of England: Philip the Fortunate Philip of Valois (1293–1350) Philip VI, King of France r. 1328–1350: John the Posthumous (1316) John I, King of France John I, King of ...
The Council, to placate Philip IV of France, condemned the Templars, delivering their wealth in France to him. [12] Delegates for King James II of Aragon insisted the Templar property in Aragon be given to the Order of Calatrava. [13] The bulls Ad providam of 2 May and Nuper in concilio of 16 May confiscated Templar property. [14]