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The Templars were closely tied to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the order faded. Rumors about [[occult]] practices in the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created distrust, and King Philip IV of France, while being deeply in debt to the order, used this distrust to take advantage of the situation. | The Templars were closely tied to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the order faded. Rumors about [[occult]] practices in the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created distrust, and King Philip IV of France, while being deeply in debt to the order, used this distrust to take advantage of the situation. | ||
The Templars were accused of homosexual practices, idolatry, and were suspected of worshiping either a figure known as [[Baphomet]] or a mummified severed head they recovered at their original headquarters on the Temple Mount that many scholars theorize might have been that of John the Baptist, among other things. In 1307, | The Templars were accused of homosexual practices, idolatry, and were suspected of worshiping either a figure known as [[Baphomet]] or a mummified severed head they recovered at their original headquarters on the Temple Mount that many scholars theorize might have been that of John the Baptist, among other things. | ||
In 1307, King Philip ordered all the Knights Templar in France to be arrested on Friday, October [[13]]th. They were tortured into giving false confessions and then [[death by burning|burned at the stake]]. Under further pressure, Pope Clement V disbanded the order in 1312. | |||
==Aftermath and modern legacy== | ==Aftermath and modern legacy== | ||