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Pope Clement V dissolved the Knights Templar in 1312 with Vox in excelso. How a French pope cornered by Philip IV ended two centuries of the Order.

As the Templars were free of all authority save for that of the Papal Throne, the only way Philip could lawfully seize Templar assets was to accuse them of magic and heresy, which he did through his right hand man, Guillaume de Nogart, who has King Philip’s chancellor. An interesting side note to Guillaume is that the lawyer’s parents had been burned at the stake as Albigensian heretics.

No, Richard the Lionheart was never a Templar — a king could not take the vows. But he sold them Cyprus and escaped Europe dressed as one.

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