[Grim]

"By 1362, the Templars were long gone...

and you base this statement on what exactly?

Barbara Tuchman's Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century has a pretty good account.

Southern Methodist University's Online Encyclopedia has a footnoted account here.

Columbia University has a brief account here.

There's quite a bit of information about the Templars in general and the fall of the Templars at TemplarHistory.com

And so on.

[Lloyd227]

So then, I presume you do not put any stock in the idea that a significant number of mambers from the Templars made the transition into an organization by another name which later surfaces as the Freemasons?

[SunkenCiv]

Nice post!