| |
| | Pope Clement V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Clement V (1264 - April 20, 1314), pope (1305-1314), (Bertrand de Gouth, archbishop of Bordeaux, France) is memorable in history for his suppression of the order of the Templars, and as the pope who removed the seat of the Roman see to Avignon. |
 | | On the 13th of October 1307 came the arrest of all the Knights Templar in France, the breaking of a storm conjured up by royal jealousy and greed, and organized by Philip's utterly unscrupulous bureaucracy, intent on expanding royal prestige and finances and ministerial patronage at any cost. |
 | | From the very day of Clement's coronation, the king had charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the weak pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently. |
| portaljuice.com /pope_clement_v.html (818 words) |
|