. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. oss are attested by all thewitnesses who were examined, with one or two exceptions. In spite of the scandal caused by these confessions, Pope Clement protested against Philippes course of action, and represented to himthat the Templars were a religious body, under the control of the Holy Seealone, that the king was consequently wrong to make himself their judge,and that he had no authority over either their possessions or their persons. Philippe unwillingly yielded to the popes remonstrances, and
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. oss are attested by all thewitnesses who were examined, with one or two exceptions. In spite of the scandal caused by these confessions, Pope Clement protested against Philippes course of action, and represented to himthat the Templars were a religious body, under the control of the Holy Seealone, that the king was consequently wrong to make himself their judge,and that he had no authority over either their possessions or their persons. Philippe unwillingly yielded to the popes remonstrances, and the pontiff 190 himself examined seventy-two Templars, whose confessions tallied with theavowals made in the first instance at Paris. An inquiry was instituted in England, in Italy, in Spain, and inGermany. The answers extracted in the course of the different examinationswere not exactly coincident, but the confessions of impiety and immoralitywere very numerous, except in Spain. The Aragonese Templars took uparms and held themselves on the defensive in their fortresses ; thev were. Fig. 150.—Council of Vienne.—Fresco executed in the Vatican Library by order ofPope Pius V. (Sixteenth Century). however, conquered by King James II., and thrown into prison as Templars of Castile were arrested, tried before an ecclesiastical tribunal,and declared innocent. The pope acknowledged the existence of serious irregularities amongstthe knights of the order, but persisted in reserving to himself the right topronounce a final decision. He, however, instructed every bishop in theChristian world to investigate the cases within his own diocese, and toabsolve the innocent, and condemn the guilty Templars according to theutmost rigour of the law. MILITARY ORDERS. The provincial council of Paris handed over the contumacious to thesecular authorities ; fifty-nine of the guilty knights were burnt in that cityat the back of the abbey of St. Antoine. A second council, at Senlis, in asim
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