The debate on the trial of the Templars, 1307-1314 - Burgtorf, Jochen (Ashgate, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Could alleged Templar malpractices have remained undetected for decades? / Alan Forey -- The election of the Templar master Jacques de Molay / Anthony Luttrell -- Institutional dependency upon secular and ecclesiastical patrons and the foundations of the Trial of the Templars / Nicholas Morton -- Fighting the King of France : Templars and Hospitallers in the Flemish Rebellion of 1302 / Bernard Schotte -- The monetary fluctuations in Philip IV's Kingdom of France and their relevance to the arrest of the Templars / Ignacio de la Torre -- Terror, torture, and the truth : the testimonies of the Templars revisited / Thomas Krämer -- The Templars face the inquisition : the Papal Commission and the Diocesan tribunals in France, 1308-11 / Dale R. Streeter -- Three "traitors" of the Temple : was their truth the whole truth? / David Bryson -- The trial inventories of the Templars' houses in France : select aspects / Jochen Burgtorf --
- On the margins of the Templars' trial : the case of Bishop Guichard of Troyes / Alain Provost -- The involvement of the University of Paris in the trials of Marguerite Porete and the Templars, 1308-10 / Paul F. Crawford -- The trial depositions as evidence of kinship influences in the order of the Temple / Jochen G. Schenk -- The social reception of the Templar trial in early fourteenth-century France : the transmission of information / Magdalena Satora -- Reassessing the dissolution of the Templars : King Dinis and their suppression in Portugal / Clive Porro -- Icons, crosses, and the liturgical objects of Templar chapels in the crown of Aragon / Sebastián Salvadó -- The extinction of the order of the Temple in the Kingdom of Valencia and early Montesa, 1307-30 : a case of transition from universalist to territorialized military orders / Luis García-Guijarro Ramos -- King Edward II of England and the Templars / Jeffrey S. Hamilton --
- The Trial of the Templars in Ireland / Helen J. Nicholson -- The Hospitallers' acquisition of the Templar lands in England / Simon Phillips -- The arrest of the Templars in Cyprus / Peter W. Edbury -- Rinaldo da Concorezzo, Archbishop of Ravenna, and the Trial of the Templars in Northern Italy / Elena Bellomo -- The Templars and their trial in Sicily / Kristjan Toomaspoeg -- The Trial of the Templars in the County of Flanders, 1307-12 / Filip Hooghe -- The commanderies of the Templars in the Polish lands and their history after the end of the order / Maria Starnawska -- Templar runaways and renegades before, during and after the trial / Christian Vogel -- Priests of the Order of the Temple : what can they tell us? / Anne Gilmour-Bryson -- The assimilation of Templar properties by the order of the Hospital / Theresa M. Vann -- "The Templars are everywhere" : an examination of the myths behind Templar survival after 1307 / John Walker
In October 1307, all the brothers of the military-religious order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy and other crimes. In 1312, Pope Clement V, at the Council of Vienne, dissolved the order. Seven centuries later there is still hot debate about the causes of this notorious affair, its course, and its aftermath. This book collects the research of both junior and senior scholars from around the world to establish the current state of scholarship and identify areas for new research. Individual chapters examine the background to the