. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. t. John. In this wise, as is pointed out byWilcke, Albert de Blacas, prior of Aix, obtained the commandership ofSaint-Maurice, as prior of the Hospitallers; and Frederick, grand prior ofLower Germany, retained the title in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The pope had specially reserved his judgment in the case of the grandmaster, Jacques de Molai, in that of the Visitor of France, and in those of-the commanders of Gruyenne and of Normandy. Several cardinals-legate,with some French bishops and doctors of
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. t. John. In this wise, as is pointed out byWilcke, Albert de Blacas, prior of Aix, obtained the commandership ofSaint-Maurice, as prior of the Hospitallers; and Frederick, grand prior ofLower Germany, retained the title in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The pope had specially reserved his judgment in the case of the grandmaster, Jacques de Molai, in that of the Visitor of France, and in those of-the commanders of Gruyenne and of Normandy. Several cardinals-legate,with some French bishops and doctors of the University of Paris, constitutedthe tribunal which was to pass the sentence in the name of the satisfying themselves that these four eminent knights had repeatedtheir avowals before a second commission, the members of the tribunal, 192 MILITARY ORDERS. convinced of their guilt, caused a scaffold to be erected in front of Notre-Dame, and- there, on Monday, March 18th, 1314, the four Templars werepublicly condemned to imprisonment for life. On the scaffold the grand. Fig. 151.—Our Lady of Grace sheltering under the folds of her mantle the first Grand Masters ofthe Military Order of Montessa. This order was established in Spain in 1317 by James II.,King of Aragon, with the approval of John XXII., as a substitute for the Order of theTemple, with whose possessions it was endowed.—From a Painting on Wood of the Fif-teenth Century, hold in veneration in the Church of the Temple, at Valencia ; and from the Iconografia Espanola of M. Carderera. master and one of the others recanted their confession of guilt and protestedtheir innocence. The cardinals, surprised at this recantation, committedthe prisoners to the care of the provost of Paris, with orders to bring thembefore them the next day, when the tribunal had had time to deliberate MILITARY ORDERS. 193 on this fresh incident. But Philippe le Bel, learning what was taking place>hurriedly assembled his council,
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