mick laBriola

The Templars were closely tied to the Crusades. As they became unable to secure their holdings in the Holy Land, support for the order faded. On Friday October 13th 1307, King Philip IV of France had many of the order’s members in France arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and then burned at the stake. Under pressure, Pope Clement V disbanded the order in 1312. My favorite theory but well disputed.