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Here is the story of great tower of Paris.
The Square du Temple is a garden in Paris, France in the 3rd arrondissement, established in 1857. It is one of 24 city squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The Square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris, built by the Knights Templar. Parts of the fortress were later used as a prison during the French Revolution, and then demolished by the mid-19th century. Here is a painting of it from the late 18th century
The Knights Templar began in the 12th century, first constructing a fort (Vieux Temple or Old Temple) in Le Marais. In the 13th century, a new fortress was built as their European headquarters.
The enclosure, called enclos du Temple, originally featured a number of buildings important to the running of The Order, and included a church and a massive turreted keep known as Grosse Tour (great tower) that housed a number of prized possessions of The Order, and a smaller tower called Tour de CĂ©sar (Caesar's Tower).
The treasure bought back from the fall of acre was brought here. Phillip the fair took shelter here when he debased his own silver currency and saw the large fortune of the templars.
The treasure is described below...
Source: Called the Knights Templars by Charles Greenstreet Addison published London in 1852. Which in turn refer to Latin texts and Cannon documents from charters cathedral in France. Parts of the book are written in French and Papal Latin bulls as per source of the information.
The Knights loaned the French King Philip money, a lot of it, in that time. Philip’s capitol Paris revolted against him. Philip appeared as a big spender and the common peoples’ bread was in scarce order. Yet the Templars defended Philip. The Pope at the time wrote a letter to Philip in 1307 asking for permission to investigate the Templars. But the crafty, and in their debt, Philip, without the Pope’s permission seized as many Knights as he could and threw them in prison. As well as all the templar treasure in Paris.
Also in 1307 more documents appeared to all bailiffs of the kingdoms of France, England, Iberia, Germany, Italy and Cyprus. These letters asked representatives of these countries to grab the Templars, arrest them, torture them. Again in 1307 the Pope himself jumped on the bandwagon of the inquisition destruction and forced the two main leaders of the Templars to “confess.”
How many confessed seems close to 100 Knights, of which 54 were burned at the stake in Paris in 1310. The Order finished off in 1314 when the two very highest leaders of the Knights burned at the stake.
Here are one of those letters which directed officials to capture the Templars, coming from Philip himself.
Nearly 800 years After the destruction of Templars. In September 2001, a document known as the Chinon Parchment dated 17–20 August 1308 was discovered in the Vatican Secret Archives by Barbara Frale, apparently after having been filed in the wrong place in 1628. It is a record of the trial of the Templars and shows that Clement absolved the Templars of all heresies in 1308 before formally disbanding the order in 1312, as did another Chinon Parchment dated 20 August 1308 addressed to Philip IV of France, also mentioning that all Templars that had confessed to heresy were "restored to the Sacraments and to the unity of the Church".
This other Chinon Parchment has been well known to historians,having been published by Étienne Baluze in 1693 and by Pierre Dupuy in 1751[SUP].
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The fortress of Templars in Paris is no more but location of the towers is drawn on the floor in front of the town hall you can see below.
Today in modern Paris archeological excavations at a new building site is unveiling the foundations of the Templar fortress with artifacts and skeletons.
This is the real templars amigos in France not a world away in some ones imagination.
Crow
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Here is the story of great tower of Paris.
The Square du Temple is a garden in Paris, France in the 3rd arrondissement, established in 1857. It is one of 24 city squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The Square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris, built by the Knights Templar. Parts of the fortress were later used as a prison during the French Revolution, and then demolished by the mid-19th century. Here is a painting of it from the late 18th century
The Knights Templar began in the 12th century, first constructing a fort (Vieux Temple or Old Temple) in Le Marais. In the 13th century, a new fortress was built as their European headquarters.
The enclosure, called enclos du Temple, originally featured a number of buildings important to the running of The Order, and included a church and a massive turreted keep known as Grosse Tour (great tower) that housed a number of prized possessions of The Order, and a smaller tower called Tour de CĂ©sar (Caesar's Tower).
The treasure bought back from the fall of acre was brought here. Phillip the fair took shelter here when he debased his own silver currency and saw the large fortune of the templars.
The treasure is described below...
Source: Called the Knights Templars by Charles Greenstreet Addison published London in 1852. Which in turn refer to Latin texts and Cannon documents from charters cathedral in France. Parts of the book are written in French and Papal Latin bulls as per source of the information.
The Knights loaned the French King Philip money, a lot of it, in that time. Philip’s capitol Paris revolted against him. Philip appeared as a big spender and the common peoples’ bread was in scarce order. Yet the Templars defended Philip. The Pope at the time wrote a letter to Philip in 1307 asking for permission to investigate the Templars. But the crafty, and in their debt, Philip, without the Pope’s permission seized as many Knights as he could and threw them in prison. As well as all the templar treasure in Paris.
Also in 1307 more documents appeared to all bailiffs of the kingdoms of France, England, Iberia, Germany, Italy and Cyprus. These letters asked representatives of these countries to grab the Templars, arrest them, torture them. Again in 1307 the Pope himself jumped on the bandwagon of the inquisition destruction and forced the two main leaders of the Templars to “confess.”
How many confessed seems close to 100 Knights, of which 54 were burned at the stake in Paris in 1310. The Order finished off in 1314 when the two very highest leaders of the Knights burned at the stake.
Here are one of those letters which directed officials to capture the Templars, coming from Philip himself.
Nearly 800 years After the destruction of Templars. In September 2001, a document known as the Chinon Parchment dated 17–20 August 1308 was discovered in the Vatican Secret Archives by Barbara Frale, apparently after having been filed in the wrong place in 1628. It is a record of the trial of the Templars and shows that Clement absolved the Templars of all heresies in 1308 before formally disbanding the order in 1312, as did another Chinon Parchment dated 20 August 1308 addressed to Philip IV of France, also mentioning that all Templars that had confessed to heresy were "restored to the Sacraments and to the unity of the Church".
This other Chinon Parchment has been well known to historians,having been published by Étienne Baluze in 1693 and by Pierre Dupuy in 1751[SUP].
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The fortress of Templars in Paris is no more but location of the towers is drawn on the floor in front of the town hall you can see below.
Today in modern Paris archeological excavations at a new building site is unveiling the foundations of the Templar fortress with artifacts and skeletons.
This is the real templars amigos in France not a world away in some ones imagination.
Crow
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