Jacques de Molay

The last Grand Master of the Knight Templar.
The Knight Templars was an order of Knights set up to protect the Holy Land by in the Crusades. They were active from 1119 A. D. to 1314 A. D. and got their orders direcetly from the Pope.
Rumors about the Templars secret initiiantion ceremony created mistrust and King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, took advantage of the situation.
In 1307, many of the Order's members in France Were arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and then burnt at the stake.
Under pressure from Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312.
Jacques de Molay was later burnt at the stake in March 1314, but Jacques had the last word, he cursed the King and the Pope to die within the year.
Pope Clement died in a month, and King Philip died within two month.
Proclaimed a Saint by King William on the 18th of August 2011.
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