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News: Knights Templar sue Vatican
By Psyche | August 6, 2008
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According to the Internet’s most reliable source of information, Wikipedia,1 the Knights Templar were founded after the first crusade in 1096, and officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church around 1129.
In 1307 many of the Order’s members were arrested, tortured, and burned at the stake. In 1312, Pope Clement, under continuing pressure from King Philip IV of France, disbanded the Knights Templar.
In August 2008, nearly 700 years later, the “Association of the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ” are suing.
The Association of the Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ, whose members claim to be descended from the legendary crusaders, have filed a lawsuit against Benedict XVI calling for him to recognise the seizure of assets worth 100 billion euros (£79 billion).
- Telegraph.co.uk, “Knights Templar heirs in legal battle with the Pope“
Despite the large figures, they’re not after money really, they simply want to restore the Knights Templar’s “good name”.
The legal move by the Spanish group comes follows the unprecedented step by the Vatican towards the rehabilitation of the group when last October it released copies of parchments recording the trials of the Knights between 1307 and 1312. [...]
The Chinon parchment revealed that, contrary to historic belief, Clement V had declared the Templars were not heretics but disbanded the order anyway to maintain peace with their accuser, King Philip IV of France.
I confess, I’ve never really be interested in the whole Knights Templar history and mythology. Tales of knights and chivalry inspire little romance thanks to a brilliantly graphic history teacher in grade school, and there’s always seemed something so hokey about the whole thing.
Nonetheless, this little publicity stunt should prove interesting, given the rabid attention Dan Brow’s unbearably tedious
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- Second only to EncyclopediaDramatica.com, but they don’t have a page on the Knights Templar. Yet. [back]
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August 6th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I’m praying that was sarcastic…
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Psyche reply on August 6th, 2008:
Give me some credit! I did footnote that it was second only to EncyclopediaDramatica.com…
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