The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Friday the 13th of October 1307 – The Doom of the Templars. Excerpt From Demigod Mentality
Aired: 2023-10-13
Duration: 01:26


=== The Fall of the Templars (01:25) ===

[00:00:01]  The doom of the Templars.
[00:00:03]  Arguably the most famous of the Crusader Orders, the Templars were also accused of heresy.
[00:00:09]  Unlike the Teutonic Order, the Templar Order would not survive these accusations.
[00:00:14]  Perhaps the Templars were in fact guilty of the various accusations leveled against them, although a more likely scenario is that their demise was the result of political developments.
[00:00:26]  The Order was rich, and the French king, Philip the Fair, sought to centralize power as well as to increase the wealth of the state.
[00:00:34]  After all, the Teotonic Knights were expelled from Transylvania for similar reasons.
[00:00:40]  The actions of the French king were supported by Pope Clement V, who issued a papal bull which ordered Christian monarchs to arrest all knights, Templars, and seize their properties.
[00:00:53]  On the fateful Friday, the 13th in October of 1307, the Templar headquarters in Paris was subject to a dawn raid.
[00:01:01]  Their last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, was arrested and a few years later, in 1314, burned at the stake.
[00:01:09]  According to legend, De Molay cursed the French king and his descendants from his pyre.
[00:01:15]  Another legend tells of a Neapolitan Templar who, before his execution, warned that both Philip and Clement would be dead within a year and a day as punishment for their transgressions.