On the Extinction of the Order of the Templars

...naldus original: "nio," likely the end of "Raynaldio," referring to the historian Odoricus Raynaldus. expressly established that this sacred assembly lasted [for two years]. See Ecclesiastical History, Dissertation 10, Century 14, page 361.

Regarding the individuals of the Order of the Templars, it was also decreed in the same council that they should be judged individually in provincial councils. The arrangement was such that pardon would be granted to those who were penitent and confessed the crimes they had admitted, while the impenitent and those who relapsed into their errors would be visited with a worthy punishment. See the Treatise on the Extirpation of the Albigensian Heresy The Albigensians were a dualist sect in southern France; the author is referencing a historical collection that includes documents on various "heretical" groups. in volume 5 of the Writers of French History, edited by François Duchesne for the year 1311. And certainly, if we admit these facts, that opinion cannot hold weight which asserts that all the Templars without exception were killed at a single time; see Paul Lang in the Chronicle of Cititz A 16th-century historical chronicle of a monastery in Zeitz, Germany. page 784, edited by Pistorius. Furthermore, Brouwer and Masen in the Annals of Trier for the year 1301 expressly state that the Templars were by no means destroyed at one and the same time.

Among the Provincial Councils held before the Council of Vienne, there occurred one worthy of note celebrated at Mainz in Germany, in which a certain Count Hugo Sylvestris (in German, a Waldgraf Literally a "Count of the Forest" or "Wildgrave," a title of nobility in the Holy Roman Empire.) strenuously defended the integrity of his Order. For as soon as he had learned that the Fathers The high-ranking clergy and bishops attending the council. had convened in the Chapter house, he took twenty other brothers with swords hidden under their garments original: "tecto sub vestibus ferro," literally "iron covered under their clothes." and entered the chamber of the Fathers. There, he intrepidly addressed the Archbishop in the following manner:

“Lord Archbishop, there is a common rumor, and I do not think it is empty, that you have met here against us brothers who have dedicated ourselves to the knighthood of the temple original: "militiae templi", to deliberate on how you might publish the excommunication issued in Rome and sent to you. We have come here, not to inflict violence unjustly upon anyone, but to defend ourselves from injury. For this reason, we request that this appeal (now, he held letters in his hand) which we [have brought] against...”