Jacques de molay, last words

The last grand master of the templars; b. Molay (Haute-Saône), France, between 1243 and 1254; d. Paris, March 19, 1314. About 1265 he entered the order of Knights Templars at Beaune. Hardly anything is known about his life prior to his promotion to the rank of grand master in 1298.

In 1307 he was called to France by clem ent v, who had decided to unite the Templars and the knights of malta under a common authority.

Where is jacques de molay buried

Molay rejected this project, which he believed would be detrimental to the property and independence of his order. He obtained permission from Pope Clement V to conduct a study of the order's moral condition, but it is not known whether this study was made.

It seems probable that Clement, by so acting, attempted to prevent King philip iv the Fair's resolve to arrest De Molay, to institute proceedings against the order, and to seize its wealth. The menace became real on Sept. 22, 1307, when Nogaret, an enemy of the Templars, was put in charge of the