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.)
To: Green Knight
Well you are correct, the king coveted the Templar wealth...... but the Pope urged him to destroy the Templars rather than just steal their wealth.
36 posted on
04/10/2004 6:54:27 AM PDT by
bert
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