Castration it was.
I had wanted to read them in order to get to the French take on dismantling the Knights Templar.
Don’t watch that Knightfall series!
Its awful! The only thing is gets right historically are Templars existed and there was a French king named Phillip.
I tried to force myself to watch it. The idea being medieval guys with swords are better then no medieval guys with swords. No! Not true! So didn’t complete the series.