Order of the Temple suppressed
April 1312
In the bull Vox in excelso, Clement V dissolved the Templars without a heresy verdict, their lands nominally transferred to the Hospitallers. In practice, Philip IV kept the cash. A two-century military order that had bankrolled kings and crusades, garrisoned castles from Scotland to Cyprus, ceased to exist between breakfast and dinner.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.