History of the Templars

tacle, will be at once a precious moment for oppressed virtue and an honorable one for literature original: "lettres"; referring to the world of scholarship, history, and writing..

How is it that learned men can claim today that the destruction of the Order of the Templars is one of the most obscure events of modern history? And that, by such an assertion, they effectively call into question the innocence of so many illustrious victims? This order possessed immense riches; these riches ignited the greed of the most avaricious monarch ever to sit upon the throne of France Refers to King Philip IV, known as Philip the Fair (reigned 1285–1314), who was deeply in debt and sought to seize the Templars' assets.; to seize them, it was necessary to attribute crimes to those who owned them.

To hide from the masses the horrible iniquity of such a proscription proscription: the state-sanctioned condemnation or outlawing of a group, often resulting in the confiscation of their property and execution.,