| |
| | AskWhy! on Sifting the Cinders of the Cathars 5 - Christianity Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Templars obeyed their Master alone, just as the Assassins did, and for all their chivalrous reputation, in the year 1155, when Bertrand de Blanchefort (whom William of Tyre calls a “pious and Godfearing man”) was Grand Master, Sultan Abbas fled having murdered the Caliph of Egypt. |
 | | William de Villaret, Master of the Hospital, was battling the Saracens of Rhodes and would not come, but Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Temple, in Cyprus, accepted. |
 | | The Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, and one of his chiefs, Guy of Auvergne, were to have their sentence announced in public on 19 May, 1314, but took the chance of publicly proclaiming their innocence by recanting their forced confessions. |
| www.askwhy.co.uk /christianheresy/0829KnightsTemplar.html (4844 words) |
|