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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 ...
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.
The writers were not even aware of the actual charges leveled by Philip IV of France. But in a letter by the German king, Albert I of Germany, dated January 13, 1308, replying to Philip IV of France, the king expressed himself regarding the arrests of the Templars. [66]
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 ...
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 ...
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.