The Knights were a fascinating group

I’m really looking forward to seeing what Processus contra Templarios really has to say.

There’s so much conflicting information floating around about the Templars – stories connecting them to Freemasonry, to various 19th century secret societies, to witchcraft, to the Grail legends, and so on, that it’s hard to discern what’s real. It’s obvious that Philip IV’s action to suppress them was financially motivated, and the charges of heresy have always been a little hard to credit. The Friday the 13th arrest orders were only effective in France – though the Knights had order houses throughout Europe. England was dealing with the death of Edward Longshanks and the succession of Edward II, and didn’t arrest even a single Knight.

The whole thing is a great source of amusing conspiracy theories.