Decoding The Past - The Knights Templar - Part 1

Decoding The Past - The Knights Templar - Part 1 of 9

The Knights Templar were a Mysterious Christian military order from the Crusades of 1096 than as Mysteriously as they appeared they vanished after King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Order, began pressuring Pope Clement V to take action. In 1307, Pope Clement V condemned the Order's members, had them arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and burned at the stake In 1312, Pope Clement V under continuing pressure from King Philip disbanded the Order