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Knights Templar trial papers : 1308 parchment titled Processus Contra Templarios (Trial against the Templars)- The Vatican publishes a long-misplaced, 700-year-old papal report on the medieval holy warriors. It is a 1308 parchment titled Processus Contra Templarios (Trial against the Knights Templar), which chronicles the order's sordid endgame: the accusations of heresy, the Templars' defense, and Pope Clement V's absolution of the order, before he did an about-face and eliminated it. The document misplaced in Vatican's archives until 2001, is reportedly the official transcript of that trial and Clement's 1308 verdict, which found the Templars to be immoral but not heretical. The Pope allegedly intended to reform them. But under continued pressure from his French protector, Clement instead disbanded them in 1312 and gave most of their riches to a rival military order.Vatican, 2007.
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