The Knights Templars: God's Warriors, the Devil's Bankers"But the Templars' wealth and influence provoked jealousy and resentment, as their detractors accused them of betraying their original role as poor men of God. In the early fourteenth century, King Philip the Fair had all the Templars in France arrested on trumped-up charges of heresy, witchcraft, and homosexuality. Condemned by a series of kangaroo courts and subjected to years of imprisonment and torture (history has since acquitted the Templars of almost all charges), all but two Templars (including the Grand Master of the order, Jacques de Molay) ultimately confessed to crimes they didn't commit, accepted offers of clemency, and retired to monasteries. In 1314 A.D., de Molay and his fellow unrepentant monk were burned at the stake in the Parisian garden of the French king.". |
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