happy friday the 13th everyone
it was on this day 710 years ago that King Philip IV ordered the arrest and interrogation, and eventual execution by burning at the stake of hundreds of Knights Templar members across the French Kingdom.
the last grand master of the templars, Jacques de Molay, according to legend, is said to have said during his execution in 1314 that he cursed the king and his pawn, the current pope, Clement, that they would be punished by god for their crimes against the templars
within a year clement died from a long illness and Philip died by a stroke while hunting
the more you know
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