Writing in an engaging and highly readable style, Tibble charts the history of an organisation that, from its humble beginnings, rose rapidly to become a hugely powerful and influential corporation across Europe and the Near East, before its dramatic suppression and dissolution in the early fourteenth century. It can be a challenge to combine academic rigour with popular appeal, but the two are excellently balanced in this book. The brothers' real crime was their failure to protect the Holy Land after claiming to be solely responsible for its defence.ĭr Tibble's work is a refreshing take on a subject that, despite being well-covered in academic literature, has the enduring tendency to encourage misunderstanding and 'pseudo-history' outside of scholarly circles. The order was certainly guilty of Fraud and unscrupulous greed, but so too were other religious orders. Just what were the accusations made against the Templars before 1300, and were these related to the trial? What did contemporaries think about the other military orders, such as the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights? This article argues that, from the evidence, the famous, shocking charges brought against the Templars in 1307 were unknown before 1300. Despite this, the question of the order's guilt has never been settled. In March 1312, Pope Clement dissolved the Order of' the Temple, giving its property of the Order of the Hospital, and assigning the surviving brothers to other religious orders. During the trial of the Templars witnesses claimed that the order's abuses had been notorious far many years and under interrogation, including torture, many brothers confessed to at least some of these crimes. The order encouraged brothers to acquire property fraudulently, and to win profit for the order by any means possible. What was more, it was alleged that the Templars did not make charitable gifts or give hospitality as a religious order should. The brothers did not believe in the mass or other sacraments of the church and did not carry these out properly, defrauding patrons of the order who had given money for masses to be said for their families' souls. The order encouraged homosexual activity between brothers. ![]() There were, it was claimed, serious abuses in the admission ceremony, where the brothers denied their faith in Christ. The brothers were accused of a variety of crimes, which were said to be long-established in the order. In November, Pope Clement V sent out orders for the arrest of the Templars throughout Europe. In October 1307, by order of Philip IV of France, all the Knights Templar within the French domains were arrested.
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