So it's Friday the 13th -- Unlucky? Well for most of us it's a pretty typical day - unless you are a Knight Templar. For them -- Not so much. They had a pretty good run -- Being formed shortly after the First Crusade in 1099, they amassed huge amounts of wealth and power. But, of course, this pissed off the politicians and church (some things never change) At dawn on Friday, 13 October 1307 – a date that helped influence the superstition of the popular stories about Friday the 13th – King Philip IV ordered de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested. The arrest warrant started with the words: "Dieu n'est pas content, nous avons des ennemis de la foi dans le Royaume" ("God is not pleased. We have enemies of the faith in the kingdom") but could have been shortened to -- "You pissed off the wrong Pope" And so ended the Knights Templar.
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