Deborah Elliott
ASIN: B00H0O752U
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 181
While the French Inquisition was started by King Philip IV as he vented his rage over the Knights Templar refusing to finance his wars, it also encompassed any who even remotely disagreed with King or Church, on any issue. Many were tortured unto confession of witchcraft and burned along with the Templar. It is interesting to note that the number of Templar documented to have been captured and burned at the stake was small in comparison to the number history actually suspects there were. It is known that the Templar owned land in Scotland, and that many ran there to escaped King Philip IV's wrath. What isn't known, is where they went from there. When they left Scotland, where did they take their fabled wealth that is thought to have included such things as manuscripts from the Library at Alexandria which succumbed to fire in 48BC, a vial of Christ's blood, the Golden Chalice, the Spear ...