Transcript The Knight`s Templar and Bad Guys PPT

The Knight’s Templar
Good Guys
And
Bad Guys
The What?
The Poor Fellow Soldiers of Christ
and the Temple of Solomon
The World at the Time…
So, what the heck are the Crusades?
• A series of Military
expeditions instigated
by Popes and
undertaken by
Christian Kings to
recover the Holy Land
from the Muslims
• Between 1096 c.e. and
1249 c.e.
The Crusades had already been
going swimmingly…
• 1095 – The First
Crusade preached
by Pope urban II
• 1096 – The First
Crusade initiated
• 1099 – Jerusalem
captured from the
Muslims
It all started with…
• Hugh de Payen and
some of his relatives,
eight other members
of French nobility.
• They traveled to
Jerusalem in 1118.
• They met Bowdoin I,
King of Jerusalem.
No, THIS St. Bernard!
Saint Bernard de Clairveaux, 1090 - 1153
In the year 1128, Bernard
assisted at the Council of
Troyes, which had been
convoked by Pope
Honorius II. It was at this
council that Bernard
traced the outlines of the
Rule of the Knights
Templars who soon
became the ideal of the
French nobility. Bernard
praises it in his "De
Laudibus Novae Militiae".
Purpose:
•
To Protect
Pilgrims on
their Journeys
to the Holy
Land.
•
To fight for
the Christian
right to the
Holy Land
Motto:
Non nobis Domine, non nobis. Sed nomine Tuo, da gloriam.
Not unto us oh Lord, not unto us. But in Thy name, we “give glory”.
The Knights in action.
 1119 - Knights Templar
founded (some sources cite
1118)
 1128 - The Council of Troyes,
the Rules of the Order adopted
 1145 - Second Crusade
preached
 1146 - Second Crusade
initiated, then crushed in 1148
outside Damascus in Syria
 1165 - Templars firmly
established in Jerusalem and
other major towns of Palestine,
as well as Europe
The Saracen Fights Back!
 1187 - Jerusalem recaptured by
Muslims, led by Saladin (Salah adDin Yusuf Ibn Ayyub)
 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII preaches
the Third Crusade in his letter Audita
Tremendi
 1190 - Third Crusade fails to relieve
Jerusalem; Richard I of England and
Philip II of France depart for the Holy
Land
 1192 - Richard I enters treaty with
Saladin; Jerusalem opened for
Christian pilgrims
The Crusades continue…
 1198 - Fourth Crusade
preached
 1213 - Fifth Crusade
preached
 1228 - Jerusalem somewhat
surprisingly liberated by
Frederick II's treaty with the
Sultan of Egypt; held until
1244, at which time the
Templars reoccupied the
Temple Mount
 1249 - St Louis's Egyptian
Crusade, the last large-scale
offensive of its type
The Last Days of the Order
• 1291 - Acre falls as the last
bastion of the Crusader state
in Palestine
• 1307 - Philip the Fair arrests
Templars on Friday, October
13th
• 1310 - 54 Templars burned at
stake to harass remaining
Templars into confession
• 1314 - Jacques de Molay and
Guy de Auvergne* martyred,
burned at the stake on an
island in the river Seine in the
middle of Paris.
* Many modern research sources cite it was
really Geoffrey de Charnay who was
martyred with de Molay
Our Hero
 Comte Jacques Bernard de
Molay
 Born 1244 c.e. in Vitrey,
Department of Haute Saône,
France
 23rd and Last Grand Master of
the crusading order of the
Knights Templar
 Died by the hand of Philip IV
on March 18, 1314 c.e., in the
Place du Vert-Gallant, on the Ile
de la Cité, Paris
Friday, October 13, 1307
ACCUSED OF:
• Heresy
• Denying Christ
and trampling the
Cross
• Worshipping a
Cat-Headed Statue
• Worshipping
Baphomet
TORTURE!
MORE TORTURE!
EVEN MORE TORTURE!
YET EVEN MORE TORTURE!
The Inquisition!
No, silly! THIS Inquisition!
Four Very Bad Men!
• Master Inquisitor
Bernard Saisset
• Senior Inquisitor
Philip de Marigny
• Junior Inquisitor
Bernard de Castanet
• Lord Constable of France
Gaucher de Chatillon
Master Inquisitor
Bernard Saisset (bĕrnär` sĕsā`), b 1232, d. 1314
• 1295 - Bishop of
Pamiers
• 1301 - Papal Legate
for Boniface VIII
• 1304/5 - Arrested for
opposing Philip IV
• 1308 - Restored to See
by Clement V
• Likely to have
presided at Trials
Senior Inquisitor
Philip de Marigny (fēlēp` də măr`ĭñē)
• Rampant Nepotism!
• 1301 - Enguerrand de
Marigny, a Minister and
Chamberlain for Philip
IV, obtained the
Bishopric of Cambrai for
his brother Philip
• 1309 Archbishopric of
Sens, same story
• Distantly related to the
de Chatillons
Junior Inquisitor
Bernard de Castanet (bĕrnär` də kästənā`)
• Bishop of Albi, distantly
related and loyal to the King
• Gaoler of the Cathars and
famously sadistic torturer
Lord Constable of France
Gaucher de Chatillon (gōshā` də shätēōŋ`)
• Lord of Crecy
• 1290 - Lord of Chatillon
du Marne
• Second in Command
only to the King
• Keeper of the Royal
Sword (called “Joyous”),
blue scabbard decorated
with Fleurs de Lis from
hilt to point
VS.
Pope
King
Philip IV – in debt up to his ears
to the Templars, he wants
DeMolay dead and to have all
of the Templar land and riches
• Lord Constable of France – Second
in Command to the King carries the
full authority of the King
• Senior Inquisitor – Doddering old
fool and cousin to the Lord Constable
• Junior Inquisitor – King’s sadistic
cousin who wants the Master
Inquisitor’s job and power, the
Templars (like the Cathars) are just a
convenient tool for him to use
Clement V – tired of being
Philip’s tool, he resents the
French King’s control over his
Inquisition and his Templars
• Master Inquisitor – hates the King, but
is faithful to the Church, he wants to
get to the bottom of the Templars’
alleged Heresy
• DeMolay & Auvergne – though
horribly tortured they remained ever
loyal to the Church and their Order
• Gonneville and Peralde – tired of the
torture, they just want it all to be over
so they can finally go home in peace
The End?
– Jacques de Molay recants
 “I think it only right that at so solemn a moment, when my life has so little time
to run, I should reveal the deception which has been practiced, and speak up for
the truth. Before heaven and earth, and with all of you here as my witnesses, I
admit that I am guilty of the grossest iniquity. But the iniquity is that I have lied
in admitting the disgusting charges laid against the Order. I declare, and I must
declare, that the Order is innocent. Its purity and saintliness is beyond
question”.
The Last Laugh?
Clem
Phil
DeMolay’s Curse…
“Pope Clement, Chevalier Guillaume de Nogaret, King
Philippe, before a year, I am ordering you to appear before
the tribunal of God. Cursed you will all be! Cursed until the
13th generation! “
The Last Laugh!
Jacques de Molay, tu es vengé!