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Article THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. ← Page 4 of 6 →
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The Knights Templar.
themselves by exposing the cruelties that they aud the other cheA aliers had endured for a length of time . It therefore behoved them to prevent this dangerous interview of the Grand Master and chiefs with the Pope . But , on the other hand , it would afford just motiA es for suspicion
and uneasiness to the Pope himself , should they let the Grand Master and chiefs remain at Paris , whilst the chevaliers only were presented to him . It Avould be also exposing themselves to the murmurs of the people , and to the suspicions of Kings and Princes .
The ministers of Philip the Fair found out an expedient . They sent the Grand Master and the other chiefs of the Order , together with the chevaliers ; but they sent only the seventy-two chevaliers to Poitiers
J ? he Grand Master and the chiefs were detained at Chinon , under the pretext that some of them were sick . Three cardinals were dispatched thither in order to examine them . Why did not the Pope himself , at a crisis so important , on an affair which so essentially concerned the Christian States , repair to Chinon *
Avhich is but a short distance from Poitiers ? Why did he not , at least , cause such of the chiefs as were not indisposed to be conducted to him ? for the Pope himself confesses that they were not all sick . Why did he not himself testify some anxiety to hear the Grand Master , Avho , after the first circulation of the calumnies , immediately repaired to
his Holiness to maintain the innocence of the Order ? Why , in fine ? since they could conduct those sick chiefs from Chinon back to Parisdid he not get them brought from Chinon to Poitiers before remitting them to their prisons ?
Moreover , the Pope ought to have wished to hear Hugh de Peraldoj one of the chiefs of the order ; because Philip the Fair had complained of the commissioners for having admitted this chevalier to their table , where he availed himself of the opportunity to retract his former confessions .
Be this as it may , the commissioners of the Pope wrote to Philip the Fair that Jacques de Molay , Hugh de Paraldo , and other chiefs , had made confessions . The Pope , on the other hand , availed himself of this as a pretext for ordering the prosecution of all the Templars throughout
Christendom . But as soon as Jacques de Molay appeared before the commissioners , who were hearing the examinations at Paris , he denied with indignation that he made any confession at Chinon , and he demanded to appear before his Holiness . * This denegation alone of the Grand
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The Knights Templar.
themselves by exposing the cruelties that they aud the other cheA aliers had endured for a length of time . It therefore behoved them to prevent this dangerous interview of the Grand Master and chiefs with the Pope . But , on the other hand , it would afford just motiA es for suspicion
and uneasiness to the Pope himself , should they let the Grand Master and chiefs remain at Paris , whilst the chevaliers only were presented to him . It Avould be also exposing themselves to the murmurs of the people , and to the suspicions of Kings and Princes .
The ministers of Philip the Fair found out an expedient . They sent the Grand Master and the other chiefs of the Order , together with the chevaliers ; but they sent only the seventy-two chevaliers to Poitiers
J ? he Grand Master and the chiefs were detained at Chinon , under the pretext that some of them were sick . Three cardinals were dispatched thither in order to examine them . Why did not the Pope himself , at a crisis so important , on an affair which so essentially concerned the Christian States , repair to Chinon *
Avhich is but a short distance from Poitiers ? Why did he not , at least , cause such of the chiefs as were not indisposed to be conducted to him ? for the Pope himself confesses that they were not all sick . Why did he not himself testify some anxiety to hear the Grand Master , Avho , after the first circulation of the calumnies , immediately repaired to
his Holiness to maintain the innocence of the Order ? Why , in fine ? since they could conduct those sick chiefs from Chinon back to Parisdid he not get them brought from Chinon to Poitiers before remitting them to their prisons ?
Moreover , the Pope ought to have wished to hear Hugh de Peraldoj one of the chiefs of the order ; because Philip the Fair had complained of the commissioners for having admitted this chevalier to their table , where he availed himself of the opportunity to retract his former confessions .
Be this as it may , the commissioners of the Pope wrote to Philip the Fair that Jacques de Molay , Hugh de Paraldo , and other chiefs , had made confessions . The Pope , on the other hand , availed himself of this as a pretext for ordering the prosecution of all the Templars throughout
Christendom . But as soon as Jacques de Molay appeared before the commissioners , who were hearing the examinations at Paris , he denied with indignation that he made any confession at Chinon , and he demanded to appear before his Holiness . * This denegation alone of the Grand