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October 1307 Friday the 13th hundreds of Knights Templar have been summoned to Paris suddenly 620 were arrested and thrown in jail the accusations levy that the Templars added up to the worst charge possible heresy but the Knights Templar were Christian warrior heroes the SAS of the many evil Crusades were the best trans soldiers of the Roman Empire so why would these devout and popular warriors brought to their knees at last a secret document hidden for 700 years reveals the truth about the greed politics and power play that would destroy the most legendary military elite in history you Jerusalem the birthplace of Christianity the most important city of the medieval world if one takes a map of Jerusalem of the facade appeared it's depicted as the navel of the world the center of the world it was a place of religious tolerance and Christian pilgrims enjoyed safe passage but by the 11th century the Christians were under attack 3,000 dramatically and the Christian churches violated there was outrage [Music] in 1095 the Pope exhorted the Christian world to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims one of the bloodiest holy wars in history had just begun very quickly tens of thousands of people mostly people who were not soldiers not fighters had no experience in fighting in it in fact never left their villages answer the call of the Pope and head out to the east within four years the Christians have taken Jerusalem [Music] out of the ranks of the Crusaders arose dat Templar Knight a unique blend of monk and soldier strong in their faith their job to police the new Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem and protect pilgrims for the first time in history a holy order was commanded to take up arms answerable only to the Pope with the Templars who first introduced this idea of combining a monastic life style with knighthood and with military activity they lived according to a monastic rule the day was organized between prayers and training and looking after the equipment the Templars emerged as an elite military unit famed for their balance and purity they were also ruthless defenders of their faith when they first appeared on the world stage so they'd sort of caught people's imaginations in many ways this report this was a really good thing with reports of their victories reaching Europe the Templars became the superheroes of Christianity initially a band of nine their numbers grew rapidly so their reputation soared they quickly became legendary and a source of mystery miss rumors stories swirled random like a mist and they seemed to encourage that they certainly didn't discourage it in fact it could be said that they actually hid behind their own myths for much of their career a [Music] contemporary commentator bernard of clairvaux described them as strong warriors on the one hand and monks waging war with Vice and Dean's on the other a body of men will need have no fear these men had no dread of death confident in the knowledge that in the sight of the Lord they would be his market [Music] but almost two centuries after their foundation the most celebrated Christian warriors of the medieval era who had lived and died under the sign of the Cross had been arrested and jailed on charges of heresy the public reaction to the rest of the Templars was enormous those huge upper in Germany where the Templars extremely popular and in Spain and Portugal and the King Blair didn't believe deprivation nobody could believe that the Templars who have been Christianity's heroes for the last 200 years have been arrested on charges of heresy after thousands of Templar knights had died fighting for their faith in the Holy Land for two centuries why would these heroes suddenly being charged with harris team Pyrus 1307 the Knights Templar have been arrested by French King Philip the fourth charged with heresy after almost two hundred years crusading for the Christian faith in the Holy Land was there any truth in his accusation did the Templars have something to hide the Templars were incredibly secretive right from the start of their career rumours stories myths surrounded them the Templars were keen to hide their activities especially their source of power and wealth the order had been quietly formed in Jerusalem in 1119 20 years after the Christians took the city a French Knight founded the order to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land [Music] so how did they end up with fortresses and churches all over York with a massive power base to rival the European marks is the answer rooted in the Templars mysterious reputation as relic hunters relics were the status symbols of the medieval era more collectible and cash or jewels [Music] the relics that were of most interest to the medieval collectors came from the Holy Land they were sword and fought over and venerated in monasteries and cathedrals right across Europe Templar tiara nofa more female alluro a hookah the key person even all the champions were famous worldwide as custodians of relics particularly those directly from the story of pricey or need additional pity for Vinnie monk a temporal signature alone was enough to prove a relics authenticity certificate et al dentista they live in Libya part of the mystique that lets the canonization of French King Louie the ninth was his purchase of two major relics a fragment of the true cross and the crown-of-thorns both both I simply we when the Templars were at their peak so we simply we designed and built this chapel at a reliquary or decaf on the only Nara was an enormous reliquary for the relics of the story of Christ which he had purchased of a theologian people believed that relics were the closest physical way to touch God though st. Louis had purchased had made France the center of Europe spiritually and political Louis had promoted Paris as the New Jerusalem [Music] the source of relics from the story of Christ was of course Jerusalem and the Templars home was at the very heart of it the Templars were established on the Temple Mount over in this area on the southern part of the Temple Mount where the al-aksa mosque is situated and the mosque became the headquarters of the Templar order so they were located in the most important area of Jerusalem it was also the site of the Jewish temple believed to have been full of religious artifacts including Christian relics there were originally only 9 templates how could nine men possibly provide protection of thousands of pilgrims were the early Templars actually digging for relics under their own base [Music] they certainly dug on the temple mount there's no doubt about that because we know that were carrying out a lot of building activity including two warehouses and bar the construction of a new palace which would have required digging into the Temple Mount itself and they may well have dug passages underneath the Temple Mount [Music] this is a subterranean tunnel which was discovered by child Warren in 1857 at that time was full of sewerage and he floated down on the top of a wooden door this tunnel is one of many hundreds under Jerusalem itself and indeed under the Temple Mount the Templars could have been searching for artifacts that would have brought them great influence or even made them a target of envy much later on [Music] this is a medieval gates but a wish it was built in the Roman Paris so of all gates along the western side of Temple Mount one could be certain that this gates was used by the Templars this was the entrance to the ancient Jewish temple of Solomon this temple could have been a gold mine of treasures for the temples undoubtedly their Templars had this passion for relic it was quite an obsession and those who came to the country were willing to kill not only Jews and Muslims but also a local Christians in their search for ELYX one relic said to have passed through the Templars hands was the burial cloth apparently imprinted with Christ's body now known as the jewel in shroud believed to have turned up in Paris with Saint Louie in the middle of the 13th century the Templars were ideally placed to have brought him the shroud yeda Moyer Vetal they had the method they had boats traveling to and from the Holy Land at a time - your pop star in his doctor year is and remember the Knights Templar was a religious order with a reputation trustworthy you know if it does show the filthy the most sought-after relic was the Holy Grail a quest that continues across the world to this day often believed to be the cup that Jesus blessed at the Last Supper the Grail was first mentioned in a romantic story by the French poet at the end of toir and toir was the birthplace of most templar knights [Music] the Templars that sell was worth from the trial regions so maybe prescient heard things from returning Templars or returning Crusaders it heard things from tempted in the east about this mysterious rail [Music] the Grail has been described in many ways in Clinton of Toit's original story the Grail is a platter robert de boron describes the Grail as a chalice used by joseph of arimathea to collect the blood of Christ in Wolfram von Eschenbach Spolin possible searches for the Grail which interestingly Wolfram describes as a stone this stone could represent a number of things such as spiritual awakening or the grace of God but as ever the Grail that seems to resist being pinned down to one form the Grail provided a handy smokescreen while people were distracted by Grail myths the Templars could continue with their real activities understand template will never obliged to actually say what they were doing as far as everybody was concerned they were fighting in the east but they were also really good and making money the Templars became a vast multinational corporation building castles and churches all over Europe they also invented international banking and the Czech travelers deposited money at one temple and got a note which could be exchanged for cash at another temple a popular service for pilgrims to the Holy Land the fees from this helped make the Templars vastly well operations of the instance of all five places such as here their Western commanderies which were farms all all manner of businesses like wire wineries vineyards can in fact use tile factories so they were running a very good into connected series of businesses so they were you know they were the first capitalist us as you like merchants and Royals also donated to the order rushing to buy a place in heaven [Music] and the Templars were exempt from paying taxes powerful and strong they were the Pope's men [Music] after the church the temple was the richest institution in Europe would this contribute to their downfall while the oldest banks were getting full their luck was running out in the Holy Land in the eleven 50s the tide had turned in the Crusades Muslim Sultan Saladin led a renewed force 70 miles north of Jerusalem the Battle of Fatih was the beginning of the end the big mistake of the Crusader army it was in coming to face Sullivan under his terms in very difficult conditions in the heat of the summer and traveling to the east facing the Sun in the early hours of the morning on the 4th of July but they found themselves surrounded by a much stronger army defeat came swiftly 20,000 Christian Crusaders were slaughtered [Music] three months later October 11 87 Jerusalem was captured by Saladin the knight Templar were forced to abandon the Temple Mount four years later their stronghold of the moon two acre on the coast of the Holy Land the temple who had a certain amount of of ships would have brought equipment and troops and supplies in through coordinator and turned acre into their main urban headquarters as the Crusader cause in the east again to die the Knights Templar held on refusing to leave and continuing to wage war from fortresses like acre but even their might started to dwindle [Music] after a hundred years and six more Arden campaigns it was over in 1291 the Knights Templar finally abandoned the holy that the Templars return to Europe most of them to France at the same time Jacques de Molay was appointed Grandmaster sixteen years later the aged warrior still dreamt of reclaiming Jerusalem his order now faced a different enemy Philip the force King of France [Music] Philip was the grandson of the great relic collector Louis the ninth the Saint King he was an extremist with a Christ complex Philips was an incredibly ambitious King and one of his main I think one of things that motivated him the most was the desire to be the most Christian King Europe and he would stop at nothing to achieve that end see if available if component Philip thinks there is a direct descendant of son Louis the st. kingdom he's therefore the face of Christ on earth really what was when he magically pleased if elected he is not the King but Christ himself not see they listened but the King was in trouble Philip had been borrowing money from the Templars to help finance his Wars again to the English and by 1307 he was desperately short of funds key a beaver kingdom was on the verge of bankruptcy who needed the Templars money and by the beginning of the 1300s the Crusaders had no reason to exist anymore what he will use it acidic without relevance in the Crusades the Templars were vulnerable the banks were full of Crusader cash and the King knew it Philip actually took refuge in the palace temple in June 13:06 he was developing the currency and that's led to an angry mob pursuing him through the streets of Paris and he had to take refuge inside the temple it was there that he's actually saw some of the temples treasure this was goals and twins and so on philip decided to neutralize the templars and stripped their assets but they were not his to control only the Pope could legitimately rule the order the King needed to destabilize them seguramente LED TV a cacciucco lava no sweet and bloody food or no rumors about the templates were certainly being manipulated by Phillip before to be very negative and defamatory about the order negativo pratik I mean deadly some rumors were a kind of poison that Phillip the fourth very skillfully used to damage the order valino KN Phillip all been lost HP oh sorry molto am bill meant a add another looking then in 1307 having smeared the reputation of the order the King launched his surprise attack snatching Jacques de Molay and every Templar in Paris very deep in the National Archives of Paris is one of the arrest orders sent across France for use on that infamous Friday the 13th the King attacked the secrecy of template initiations suggesting deviant behavior behind closed doors they were accused of financial corruption and sodomy the Templars were also accused of idolatry including worship in the camp and it all added up to a catastrophic charge heresy lhasa severus yeah and i've ever stand charge of heresy was totally devastating because the temple was founded to defend the faith and heresy is betraying the faith service charge had the power to destroy the temple order lord linearly same book template chief Jacques de Molay was slammed with a hundred and four charges of misconduct and heresy he had given 42 years devout service to the order Shirley Phillips charges couldn't stick [Music] then two weeks after the arrests inexplicably Jacques made a complete confession admitting to the charges of heresy Jack Monet's first confession in October 1307 mayor two weeks after the rest was incredibly damaging for the Templar order and the public's perception of them Christianity's heroes faced death as heretics but what had made Jack tamale suddenly confessed and could anyone now save them from paying the ultimate price [Music] after 200 years fighting under the sign of the Cross in the Holy Land the Grand Master of the Templars destroyed their reputation with a confession of heresy the French King was winning his war against the mighty Templar and what a prize he was anticipating Paris temple would have been a fortified building in which the Templars had all of their hard currency Templars are acting as bankers both the king and to the wealthy birds of Paris the cash was a little closer now that the king had imprisoned the five leaders here at Chinon Castle and what's more the Templar Grand Master had handed the King the confession of heresy but what was the real reason for domalis sovereign confession torture the rack was used on young and old the strappado a winch that dropped the bound Templar from a height and jerked him violently Bernardo vados feet were rubbed with fat and roasted over a fire until his bones set out the favela GZ comer Philip before to use torture because torture was normal practice with trials at that time ya know Amalia oh darn it was a jilted is yes and if I didn't talk to them so they told the truth I talked to them so they told his truth but Philip wasn't going to get it all his own way live because the Knights Templar were a religious Military Order they were directly under the protection of the Pope their mother the King of France or the King of England had rights or direct power over them Wow he liked the truth the Pope was the only man who could save the Templars but the papacy was at its weakest point in history clement v was little more than a puppet pope subjects the whim philip the fourth the cane had single-handedly destroyed a previous Pope and had enforced the employment of Clement and Philip continued to make sure the Pope knew who was in charge waterless Christi valya Jane Philip the fourth agents wrote many anonymous letter accusing the Pope of heresy it was an attempt to undermine clement v reputation on in front if we thought the portable TV vista i delete all that teachers even said that he had an affair with a very beautiful lady the wife of a French nobleman Madonna okay Alamo League Yunnan or Villa Frances's reluctantly Clement was the king's man and he was made to stay in Avignon France for the first time in history the Pope wasn't even allowed to go to the Vatican [Music] insofar Performa clemente pope clement v wanted to go to italy to the vatican because he would have been safer there but he was always stopped the king of france kept him as a kind of hostage in his kingdom he lady fran channel did make almost a cure but the pope had one final lifeline that could save the templars obliged to investigate any confession of heresy clement managed to turn phillips attack into a papal inquiry [Music] the truth about that inquiry has never been known until now the discovery of the dramatic document rewrites the story of clement v and the trial of the knights templar [Music] in 2003 vatican historian dr. barbara Frawley located a document coalition on parchment in the Vatican secret archive it had been lost for 700 years la paga men additional machine on parchment is the original document of an inquiry run by a collision of Cardinals on the grandmaster the temple the other major figures in the order you're in yathreb innovati Maggiore the Lord Venus tempo di clementé qui you're in clement v time all the types of documents were put in the same neat and tidy folder however over time and because Napoleon raided the paper archives and took them to France the folder was dismembered the documents were la cuesta fondo seized min bro documented Nara no despair see [Music] machine on parchment reveals shopping behavior at the heart of the order at the start of the Pope's Templar inquiry three of Clement Cardinals had gone to chignon prison far from retracting their earlier confessions of heresy the Templar leaders repeated the same confessions to the pump's man and most of it related to Templar initiation White's which were covertly established at toir Cathedral almost two hundred years before this was left they established their first official rulebook then to the Latin rule of the Templars and this included details of how somebody joined the template and what the initiation ceremony was the order kept their rulebook within themselves within the walls of the Templar preceptories it wasn't distributed or disseminated widely it was kept very much an in-house affair according to the official Templar rulebook the initiative was asked if he wanted to be a serf and slave of the house forever he was warned that have you consorted with women he would be put in heavy I and finally Assam was said as the template tunic was presented [Music] but the shin on parchment tells a very different story about template initiations all five Templars at Chinon admitted denouncing Christ after the formal rights Geoffrey dushanyi described how the brother who performed the ceremony took him aside within the same Chapel and showed him a crucifix with an effigy of Christ and told him that he should not believe in the crucified it should in fact finish you could it be reviewed Aparo confessed but the template initiation ceremony involved disowned in Christ and spitting on the cross for instance jacques de molay repeated the confession he had given to the king saying that the receptor showed him the cross and told him that he should denounce the god whose image was depicted on that cross and that he should spit on the cross which he did Hugh de pavo went even further describing how he had encouraged heresy and sexual depravity in those he had initiated after they were received and given the cloaks of the order he ordered them to denounce the crucifix and to kiss him at the bottom of the back in the navel again on the mouth he went well but the kiss was a humiliating part of the ritual for the new Templar and he was made to understand that he had to be subordinate and obedient to his superior en-dash Zweifel video.you de Perrault also confessed to encouraging homosexuality considered an abomination by the church he imposed on them to abstain from partnership with women and if they were unable to restrain their lust to join themselves with brothers of the order they were not nearly to Ireland England I set up a ritual of obedience that was of an improper and indecent nature for a religious order for mass convenience the end each end they will ordinarily draw so the chinon parchment adds up to a litany of heresies the Templars had admitted to homosexuality denouncing Christ and defiling the cross the templates first confession after arrest had been tortured out of them by Philip the fourth but had the Pope's mint done the same are the shin and confessions reliable noisy amish Aghori we are sure that in the child led by the Pope Templars were not tortured to that the ante the Templars were in trouble de Molay and his deputies had damned themselves before representatives of the highest Christian authority in the world but there was one slender chance they could be saved from the death penalty by being officially forgiven by the Pope so what genera necessary herbalist an absolution was necessary for salvation because the charge of heresy was an extremely serious case the law demanded absolution otherwise salvation was impossible a Sarah Sylvester the shin on parchment contains one further revelation despite people believing for centuries that the Pope had condemned the Templars in fact he had saved he absolved a male and the leaders unconditionally cheralathan density there was a tendency to believe the church condemned the templars however that is wrong if the Pope had the slightest suspicion of real heresy he would never have allowed them to receive the communion beauty Shea vanilla balloon the Pope absolved the Templars because he believed they were committing theoretical acts as a test of endurance before facing real Muslim heresies in the Holy Land an eternal Lama Yeshe was just a kind of role play a test of obedience strong disciplined and courageous men were needed to fight in the Holy Land against the Muslims who used to force their Christian prisoners to renounce their faith or face death Jonnie a dabbler re yo a Christian Eskimo operate lyucia devil but it appears the Templars unchristian tendencies weren't limited to play-acting there were traces of heresy within the order even if limited and inevitable within an organization 20,000 strong [Music] [Applause] on the walls of the prison at Chinon Templar prisoners left behind odd graffiti among geometric shapes clearly inscribed in one wall is the symbol for Venus a pagan Roman goddess a flower emerging from a heart on another wall suggest reference to Aphrodite the Greek goddess of love those two goddesses themselves are pagan to have any sort of appreciation of pagan culture is definite Harrison in the eyes of the church part of the prosecution had rested on the charge of worshipping a craven idol a severed head called a Baphomet [Music] one of the many rumors about the Templars and a Temple Mount they found a relic under the mat one of which is said to have been nothing less than the embalmed head of John the Baptist if the temples were indeed worshiping the Baphomet then that was a seriously heretical accusation away from sinister inscriptions and severed heads it appears Templar behavior also challenges their reputation as monastic Christians although they were champions of Christendom the temples were also flesh-and-blood human beings with all the faults for that brings with it this is borne out by saying from the time to drink like a Templar it is impossible to know for sure whether the Templars have committed heretic elack's for training purposes or not but they had undoubtedly died for the Christian cause for 200 years on the battlefield and the Pope had loyally wiped out nursing in ballet and the Pope was of course the highest religious authority once involved by the Pope the Templars were clean they were free from charges the Knights were exempt from failure not offended a Bacardi surely now the Templars were saved but the king wasn't going to give up that easily he played his final card Philip or email or Philip the bill black males opposed either the Pope was to accept the destruction of the Templars or the King of France would create with the bishops of France a breakaway Church of France separate from the Catholic Church she's mad eager Sibyl are bad Bella get a near Alma it was the trump card a battle between the king and Pope for religious power in Europe faced with a choice between the splitting of his church and giving up the order clement v gave him despite having absorbed the Knights Templar he sold them down the river in a final act of betrayal he abolished the order of the Knights Templar in March 1312 the order once described as a body of men who need have no fear have been extinguished but the showdown was about to see one final twist and a crushing disappointment for the French king [Music] the Knights Templar were abolished in the power struggle between King and Pope their assets were the prize and they were the price though they had been absolved Clement had wiped out the order and left the Templars reputation in the dirt jacques de molay has been in prison for over 60 years he was exhausted before the old man could be forced to restate his confession poverty and condemn his whole life's work he withdrew the confession throwing the Pope's absolution back in his face insert or Bella something equal pawn if they rebelled he realized he'd made a mistake but he had it all wrong he said I never admitted all those errors but false the order is pure the order is holy and I defend it it voted upon [Music] Philip the 4th seize the moment within hours he had the 72 year old man snatched and taken to the River Seine in Paris to be executed de Molay asked to have his hands free to pray towards not a dam as a pyre was lit but the old warrior had left behind one last Christian history as the Templars were swept away their biggest bank the Paris temple was raided by the king's men it was empty Templar assets in Normandy alone amounted to more than the wealth of England yet nothing was found Philip the fourths destruction of the Knights Templar had all been for nothing the actual cash treasure the gold disappeared completely wasn't find any of their main preceptory such as London Paris or Vienna we simply don't know where it went the order must have received some kind of notice about Philips plan allowing the less prominent Knights to escape and they taken the assets of the order with them around the time was the arrests the Templar fleets here as our shell disappeared [Music] no-one's ever labels might contain how many votes they were here what they contains but they completely vanished off the face of the earth did the knight Templar actually get the last laugh after all the best place for fleeing Templars in their treasure was Scotland where Robert the Bruce protected them but to this day nothing has ever been found many Templars were accepted into an older rival order the Knights Hospitaller before the arrests the Pope had suggested the merging of the two a combined order may have survived an attack from Phil of the force but Jacques de Molay had refused and paid the ultimate price for rejecting the Pope's plan if a believer Falls he wanted to unify the Knights Templar with the Knights Hospitaller to create a new order that was going to be pure from sins and useful for the reconquest of Jerusalem that regional cell in the hospital is became the real Untouchables and a still in existence today based in Rome with observer status at the United Nations it is the world's oldest charity [Music] some Templars simply vanished like the relics most closely associated with them in 1357 the Turin Shroud turned up very near the Templar Heartland in toir with Geoffrey dushanyi a descendant of one of Jack demoulas closest deputies but the Holy Grail has never appeared drifting through time like the Neary add mix of the Knights Templar and their missing treasure the Templars were ultimately dammed by a greedy King a week Pope and they were also brought down in many ways by their own success there were victims of their own mystique like the Grail Jack domalis final prophecy echoes through time as he burned the Grand Master cried that he would see the Pope and the King in judgment before God within a year Philip the fourth and clement v were dead within eight months even live only the powerful legend of the temples destroyed for their wealth mysteriously haunted by the Holy Grail for two centuries and ultimately betrayed by their closest ally [Applause] [Music] you

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