L'Exécution de Jacques de Molay - Paris, France
N 48° 51.431 E 002° 20.450
31U E 451649 N 5411789
[FR] À la suite d'un procès peu équitable, Jacques de Molay est exécuté en mars 1314 sur un bûcher pres de cette plaque. [EN] Philip IV of France had Jacques de Molay burned upon a scaffold near this plaque in March, 1314.
Waymark Code: WMXCNE
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 12/27/2017
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[FR] Jacques de Molay, né entre 1244 et 1249 à Molay (Haute-Saône) et mort à Paris le 18 mars 1314, fut le 22e et dernier maître de l'ordre du Temple.
En 1307 il est arrêté à Paris sur ordre de Philippe le Bel, qui accuse les templiers d'hérésie et de pratiques obscènes. Après quelques hésitations, le pape Clément V et les autres souverains chrétiens ne le soutiennent pas. À la suite d'un procès peu équitable, Jacques de Molay est exécuté en mars 1314 sur un bûcher dressé sur l'île aux Juifs à Paris. L'emplacement exact du bûcher est situé au no 26 de l'actuelle place Dauphine.
[EN] Jacques de Molay, was the 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, leading the Order from 20 April 1292 until it was dissolved by order of Pope Clement V in 1307.
Though little is known of his actual life and deeds except for his last years as Grand Master, he is one of the best known Templars.
Jacques de Molay's goal as Grand Master was to reform the Order, and adjust it to the situation in the Holy Land during the waning days of the Crusades. As European support for the Crusades had dwindled, other forces were at work which sought to disband the Order and claim the wealth of the Templars as their own. King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Templars, had Molay and many other French Templars arrested in 1307 and tortured into making false confessions. When Molay later retracted his confession, Philip had him burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in front of Notre Dame de Paris in March, 1314. The sudden end of both the centuries-old order of Templars and the dramatic execution of its last leader turned Molay into a legendary figure.
Name of Military Order: Knights Templar
Link documenting charitable acts: Not listed
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