To: AmusedBystander
It couldn't overcome a medieval king of France....
The specific King in question committed the murders on contract to the Pope, the head man of the Roman Catholic Church. The RCC has the blood stained hands for the Templar murders.
27 posted on
04/09/2004 2:18:24 PM PDT by
bert
(Save People.... Kill Terrorists)
To: bert
In those days if one was called a heretic, he better find his sword real quick.
28 posted on
04/09/2004 2:26:05 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: bert
As I understood it, it was the other way around. The French King was heavily in debt and wanted to rip off the Templars, so he strong-armed the Vatican into cooking up a bunch of bogus charges against them so he could move in on them and confiscate their wealth.
34 posted on
04/09/2004 9:51:27 PM PDT by
Green Knight
(Looking forward to seeing Jeb stepping over Hillary's rotting political corpse in 2008.)
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