He also didn’t like the idea of the Templars attempting to form their own country on the Island of Cyprus with uncertain loyalty to the French crown.Įven with the confiscation of Templar money and assets, the son of Philip and the heir apparent, Louis X, found the treasury empty. Philip borrowed a lot of money from the Templars but needed much more. Philip may have been known as The Fair, but in the case of the Templars it would be more accurate to call him Philip the Welcher. The curse that was cast upon him by the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay, while on his way to being burned at the stake, was fulfilled. Philip IV, or as he is also known Philip the Fair, is dead. ”When one has governed men for a long time, when one has thought that one has acted for the best, when one knows the pains the task has entailed, and then suddenly sees that one has never been either loved or understood, but merely submitted to, then one is overwhelmed with bitterness, and wonders whether one could not have found some better way of spending one’s life.”
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