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Philip IV of France: Philip IV of France 1285-1314
Philip IV of France. Anonymous, original uploader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Michaelsanders. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
Died
18 March 1314 (Jacques de Molay, burned)
Place
Paris, France
Field
property of the Knights Templar · Land and agriculture on the timeline
Legal tradition
canon law; the Council of Vienne decrees of 1312 · Royal and church law
Historical event
The suppression of the Templars, 1307 to 1312
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Philip IV arrested every Templar in France in one morning, the pope gave their property to the Hospitallers, and the Hospitallers paid the king 200,000 livres

The Knights Templar held land, houses and money across Europe and answered only to the pope. Philip IV of France was deeply in debt. At dawn on Friday 13 October 1307 his officers arrested the Templars in France, including the grand master, Jacques de Molay. In August 1308 three cardinals at Chinon absolved the Templar leaders; the record, the Chinon parchment, was found in the Vatican Archives in September 2001. At the Council of Vienne, Pope Clement V issued the bull Vox in excelso, dated 22 March 1312, suppressing the order "not by definitive sentence, but by apostolic provision." On 2 May 1312 the bull Ad providam gave Templar property "forever" to the Hospital of St John. Property in Castile, Aragon, Portugal and Majorca was excepted. Philip took a large sum for the cost of the proceedings, and on 21 March 1313 the Hospitallers agreed to pay him 200,000 livres tournois. On 18 March 1314 de Molay and Geoffroi de Charney were burned as relapsed heretics. Aragon founded the Order of Montesa in 1317 and Portugal the Order of Christ in 1320 to take the Templar lands there. The Hospitallers continue as the Order of Malta†.

What the law took from it

A creditor who is also the sovereign can turn a debt into a prosecution of the lender.

Sources
  1. blogs.loc.govGovernment record
  2. papalencyclicals.netPress
  3. herodote.netPress
  4. Wikipedia (English)Encyclopedia

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