The Templar's Curse

On the 18th March 1314, in Paris, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and Geoffroi de Charney, preceptor of the Knights Templar in Normandy, are led to the stake. Before the pyre at their feet is set alight, Jacques de Molay speaks to the watching crowd, proclaiming a curse on those who had wrongly condemned them. A month later Pope Clement V, who had helped to condemn the Knights Templar, died. Their chief persecutor, Philip IV of France, followed him to the grave a few months later. And famine, plague and revolt were to follow. Was the Templar's curse coming home to roost? The Templar's Curse shows the Knights Templar under arrest, torture and trial, followed by penance for life. Chronicling the dissolution of the order after the trial in 1307, this fascinating new book investigates the consequences of the Templar's persecution and their mysterious legacy. Curses, cruelty, political intrigue, revenge the true story of the Knights Templar is better than fiction!

Evelyn Lord is course director of the Master of Studies of Local and Regional History at the Universityof Cambridge, and staff tutor in local history. She has published widely on local history in academic and popular journals. Her latest paper compares the way in which the Templars farmed their land in Hertfordshire with other ecclesiastical and secular landlords. Her books include Derby Past, Investigating the Twentieth Century: A Local Historian's Guide to Sources, The Knights Templar in Britain (Longman)and The Stuarts' Secret Army (Longman). Her interest in the Templars comes from leading field trips to Denny Abbey in Cambridgeshire; one of the Templars' hospitals in England.

List of illustrations	p. ix
List of maps	p. x
Grand Masters of the Knights Templar	p. xi
A Crusade and Templar chronology	p. xii
A Templars and Britain chronology	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xx
Publisher's acknowledgements	p. xxi
Prologue	p. 1
The foundation of the Order	p. 3
Crusade	p. 11
Exploits in the East	p. 21
Medieval Europe at the time of the Knights Templar	p. 35
The Templars in the West	p. 46
The fall of Acre and the doomed man	p. 54
Rumours and arrests	p. 65
The French trial begins	p. 73
The Knights Templar at the stake	p. 85
The Knights Templar on trial in Britain	p. 92
More Templar trials	p. 110
The suppression of the Order and the fate of Jacques de Molay	p. 119
Were the Knights Templar guilty?	p. 128
Who were the Knights Templar?	p. 147
The Templar legend	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 178
Glossary	p. 180
Bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 193
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