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Notitiae Templariae.
Templars , armed under their regular habits , and that the archbishop , cither out of a charitable disposition or a natural sense of fear , received them very obligingly . They add , that the archbishop proceeded so far as to invite the count lo take a seat in the assembly ; tbat the count , on the other hand , declared to him that he was not come to do violence to any body whatsoever ; but that being informed that he was directed to publish a bull of the Pope ' s against their Order , he insisted that the appeal which they made from that decree to the next counciland to the
, successor of Clement , should be received , read , and published . The archbishop , to elude this demand , answered that he would consider of it . But the Knights Templars pressed him so warmly , that the archbishop , not thinking it proper to refuse men whom he saw armed , caused their appeal to be read publicly . He -sent it thereafter to the Pope , who ordered him to have it examined in a council of his province . Accordingla synod was calledand after various formalitiesthe
y , , Templars of that province were declared innocent of the crimes charged upon them . " At Modlin , near Vienna , forty knights , who had taken refuge in the crypt of their church , are said to have been butchered in a barbarous manner by an armed mob , whom their persecutors had raised up against them . The Hospitallers and Teutonic Knihts shared the chief spoils of the
g Order between them . In Bohemia , King John kept many of the Templar castles to himself . The convent and priorial residence of St . Laurence , at Prague , was sold by the Hospitallers , soon after their succeeding to its possession , for a sum of 2 , 000 florins . The Knights of Malta , it is believed , still hold some of the Templar properties in Brandenburg .
SPAIN . ARRAGON formed a grand province of the Order , of which Moncon , the gift of Count Raymond de Berenger , became the chief seat . This , along with several other castles which the Templars took from the Moors , was situated on the borders of the Moorish territory . The Order had also a 'Temple-house at Barcelona , where the aged Raymond , who was Count of Barcelona and Provenceended his days as a
pro-, fessed Brother . Such was the admiration in ivhich the services of the religious military Knights were held by the chivalrous Alphonso the First , of Ai-agou , that at his death he bequeathed the crowns of Navarre and Aragon to the Orders of the Temple Hospital and Holy Sepulchre , a destination which it was no great wonder the barons of that kingdom refused to abide by . 'The island of Majorca was dependent upon the Prior of Aragon . In 1233 Palma constituted the
chief seat of the Order there . Bartholomew Belbis is mentioned as Grand Prior of Moncon at the abolition of the Order . Upon the promulgation of the papal accusations , the gallant Knights shut themselves up in the strongest of their frontier fortresses , and remonstrated with their persecutors on the injustice of their conduct . They vainly offered to prove the innocence of their Order by wager of battleaccording to the custom of chivalrous times . But their
op-, pressors were dead to the appeals of honour ; and James the Second , then King of Aragon , besieged them in their castles , which he took and garrisoned as defensive posts against the Moors . The Templar property in the Balearic islands was , however , quietly given up to the Hospitallers .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Notitiae Templariae.
Templars , armed under their regular habits , and that the archbishop , cither out of a charitable disposition or a natural sense of fear , received them very obligingly . They add , that the archbishop proceeded so far as to invite the count lo take a seat in the assembly ; tbat the count , on the other hand , declared to him that he was not come to do violence to any body whatsoever ; but that being informed that he was directed to publish a bull of the Pope ' s against their Order , he insisted that the appeal which they made from that decree to the next counciland to the
, successor of Clement , should be received , read , and published . The archbishop , to elude this demand , answered that he would consider of it . But the Knights Templars pressed him so warmly , that the archbishop , not thinking it proper to refuse men whom he saw armed , caused their appeal to be read publicly . He -sent it thereafter to the Pope , who ordered him to have it examined in a council of his province . Accordingla synod was calledand after various formalitiesthe
y , , Templars of that province were declared innocent of the crimes charged upon them . " At Modlin , near Vienna , forty knights , who had taken refuge in the crypt of their church , are said to have been butchered in a barbarous manner by an armed mob , whom their persecutors had raised up against them . The Hospitallers and Teutonic Knihts shared the chief spoils of the
g Order between them . In Bohemia , King John kept many of the Templar castles to himself . The convent and priorial residence of St . Laurence , at Prague , was sold by the Hospitallers , soon after their succeeding to its possession , for a sum of 2 , 000 florins . The Knights of Malta , it is believed , still hold some of the Templar properties in Brandenburg .
SPAIN . ARRAGON formed a grand province of the Order , of which Moncon , the gift of Count Raymond de Berenger , became the chief seat . This , along with several other castles which the Templars took from the Moors , was situated on the borders of the Moorish territory . The Order had also a 'Temple-house at Barcelona , where the aged Raymond , who was Count of Barcelona and Provenceended his days as a
pro-, fessed Brother . Such was the admiration in ivhich the services of the religious military Knights were held by the chivalrous Alphonso the First , of Ai-agou , that at his death he bequeathed the crowns of Navarre and Aragon to the Orders of the Temple Hospital and Holy Sepulchre , a destination which it was no great wonder the barons of that kingdom refused to abide by . 'The island of Majorca was dependent upon the Prior of Aragon . In 1233 Palma constituted the
chief seat of the Order there . Bartholomew Belbis is mentioned as Grand Prior of Moncon at the abolition of the Order . Upon the promulgation of the papal accusations , the gallant Knights shut themselves up in the strongest of their frontier fortresses , and remonstrated with their persecutors on the injustice of their conduct . They vainly offered to prove the innocence of their Order by wager of battleaccording to the custom of chivalrous times . But their
op-, pressors were dead to the appeals of honour ; and James the Second , then King of Aragon , besieged them in their castles , which he took and garrisoned as defensive posts against the Moors . The Templar property in the Balearic islands was , however , quietly given up to the Hospitallers .