10-05-2007, 11:35 PM
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Funny how one misplaced document can clear up a 700 year old misunderstanding.
This happens more often than most would suspect, Imo.
~Theo
Quote:The leader of the order, Jacques de Moley, was one of those who confessed to heresy, but later recanted.
He was burned at the stake in Paris in 1314, the same year that the Pope dissolved the order.
However, according to Prof Frale, study of the document shows that the knights were not heretics as had been believed for 700 years.
In fact she says "the Pope was obliged to ask for pardons from the knights... the document we have found absolves them".
Funny how one misplaced document can clear up a 700 year old misunderstanding.
This happens more often than most would suspect, Imo.
~Theo
Jaime