Templars arrested across France at dawn
October 1307
On Friday the thirteenth, Philip IV's agents simultaneously seized every Templar they could find in a coordinated sweep across the kingdom. Tortured in Paris dungeons, the knights confessed to sodomy, idol worship, spitting on the cross. The charges were mostly invention. The purpose was the Order's vast treasury and the king's spiraling debts.
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