Jacques de Molay burned on the Seine
March 1314
The last Templar Grand Master was roasted on a slow fire on an island in the Seine, facing Notre Dame. From the flames, legend says, he summoned both Clement V and Philip IV to answer before God within a year. Both were indeed dead within eight months, lending the curse an uncanny posthumous authority that haunted the French crown for generations.
In context
Also in 1314 (3 other events on record)
- Bannockburn: Bruce shatters the English host · Europe · War
- Philip IV the Fair dies hunting · Europe · Politics
- Gran Tavola of Siena collapses · Europe · Politics
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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