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The Knights Templar.
one and the same day , the Grand Master and all the Templars that were in the kingdom . This was executed on Friday October 13 th , 1307 . All their effects were at the same time seized and sequestered into the King ' s hands . *
A measure so- extraordinary caused general astonishment all over Christendom . Some ascribed it to the secret resentment the King bore against the Templars for having favoured Boniface VIII ., during the disputes between him and the Pontiff . Others thought that there need not be ascribed any other motive than the avarice of that prince and his ministers , and their greediness to get possession of the immense riches of the Order . Upon this occasion they cited his late cruelty to
the Jews who had been tolerated in France ; Philip , in 1306 , causing them all to be arrested on the same day in the same manner as he had just served the Templars , and after stripping them of all their property forced them and their poor families , half-starved and naked , to quit the kingdom , leaving them just as much as would enable them to
support life upon the road . Some persons bore in mind what had passed in Italy , at Anagni , the country and residence of Pope Boniface , whose treasure was plundered by some French and Italian adventurers , whom Philip the Fair privately kept in pay beyond the mountains under the command of
Nogaret and Colonna . They said that the King had put into his own pocket the greatest part of that treasure which was the richest in Europe , either in gold and silver or diamonds and precious stones .
There are many other opinions by no means to the credit or honour of Philija . But this may suffice : some prelates , favourites of the King , and assisted by Guillaume de Paris , a Dominican inquisitorgeneral and confessor to that prince , at his instance had the Templars brought before them to undergo the first examination . The notorious
William de Nogaret , so active and so bold in his enterprises against Pope Boniface , had also the management of this terrible affair . The . Pope was not a little suprised on hearing of the imprisonment of the Grand Master and all the Templars in France . He looked upon the proceedings as an encroachment on his own power . In the first heat of his resentment , he suspended Guilliaume de Paris , and pro-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Knights Templar.
one and the same day , the Grand Master and all the Templars that were in the kingdom . This was executed on Friday October 13 th , 1307 . All their effects were at the same time seized and sequestered into the King ' s hands . *
A measure so- extraordinary caused general astonishment all over Christendom . Some ascribed it to the secret resentment the King bore against the Templars for having favoured Boniface VIII ., during the disputes between him and the Pontiff . Others thought that there need not be ascribed any other motive than the avarice of that prince and his ministers , and their greediness to get possession of the immense riches of the Order . Upon this occasion they cited his late cruelty to
the Jews who had been tolerated in France ; Philip , in 1306 , causing them all to be arrested on the same day in the same manner as he had just served the Templars , and after stripping them of all their property forced them and their poor families , half-starved and naked , to quit the kingdom , leaving them just as much as would enable them to
support life upon the road . Some persons bore in mind what had passed in Italy , at Anagni , the country and residence of Pope Boniface , whose treasure was plundered by some French and Italian adventurers , whom Philip the Fair privately kept in pay beyond the mountains under the command of
Nogaret and Colonna . They said that the King had put into his own pocket the greatest part of that treasure which was the richest in Europe , either in gold and silver or diamonds and precious stones .
There are many other opinions by no means to the credit or honour of Philija . But this may suffice : some prelates , favourites of the King , and assisted by Guillaume de Paris , a Dominican inquisitorgeneral and confessor to that prince , at his instance had the Templars brought before them to undergo the first examination . The notorious
William de Nogaret , so active and so bold in his enterprises against Pope Boniface , had also the management of this terrible affair . The . Pope was not a little suprised on hearing of the imprisonment of the Grand Master and all the Templars in France . He looked upon the proceedings as an encroachment on his own power . In the first heat of his resentment , he suspended Guilliaume de Paris , and pro-