The Fall of the Knights Templar: How Friday the 13th Became a Day of Dread
Before dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307, sealed orders from King Philip IV of France were opened simultaneously by royal agents across the kingdom. Within hours, nearly every member of the Knights Templar on French soil — somewhere between 600 and 2,000 men — was dragged from sleep and placed under arrest. It was the […]
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