#jacques de molay

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As a knight, I was defeated. 

As a monk, I was defeated. 

As Grand Master, I was defeated! 

I was reduced to ashes without having accomplished anything. 

I will do it here and now!

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The Chinon parchment was found in 2001 by Barbara Frale, an Italian paleographer at the Vatican Secret Archives. It contains the absolution of Jacques de Molay and the Knights Templar of all charges brought against them by Philip IV of France.

Eyewitness accounts said he went to his death ’… with easy mind and will that they brought from all those who saw them much admiration and surprise.’

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I  finished Knightfall last year and am about to finish reading my book about them and then suddenly he is brought forth as a character in FGO.

A strong feeling overcame me to draw him. To think that I had a long art block spell for months.

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This took days and im still in the grind but i have many feelings so

March 18th 1314: Jacques de Molay killed

On this day in 1314, Jacques de Molay, the twenty-third and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake. The Templar knights were a major fighting unit of the Crusades, aiming to preserve Christendom and regain control of the Holy Land. After control the Holy Land was lost to Muslim forces, support for the Knights Templar started to fade. King Philip IV of France began to mistrust the group and wanted to free himself of his debts to the Templar; he thus had many leading Knights burned at the stake. Pope Clement V disbanded the group in 1312, and the hunt continued for remaining members. The Knights were tortured until they confessed to a range of crimes, including heresy, obscene rituals, and idolatry. De Molay had been forced to make such a confession, and despite retracting the confession, he was charged with heresy and burned at the stake. Pope Clement died a month later and King Philip died that year. With their leader gone, the remaining Templars were arrested or removed from the group and the Knights Templar were no more.

“God knows who is wrong and has sinned. Soon a calamity will occur to those who have condemned us to death"
- De Molay’s words from the stake

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