Why Were The Knights Templar Accused Of Being Heretics And Then Tortured And Executed By The Catholic Church?

Question

I don't know much about the Knights Templar. What I do know is that they were a group of men who stood to protect the Church in the crusades. What happened that they were not trusted anymore by the Church and were named as heretics?

*The Pope recently apologized on the Church's behalf to the Templar admitting it was a huge wrong-doing.

Answer 1

The short story is the King of France tried to get them to loan him money to finance a war. As he was already in debt to them, they declined. The king of France then worked to get his bishop elected as pope, with the intent of seizing the Templar's assets. Once his man was made pope, the Templars were excommunicated, arrested and tortured, many of them were burned at the stake.

Answer 2

The church started to have a power struggle with the Knights Templar, the knights started to control much of the mediteranian and the end of the silk road, with such a large trade network leading to them, gold pretty much poured in, causing the church to feel threatend so the Papecy declared the Kights Templar as Heretics in a way to solve to problem.

Answer 3

The Knights Templar owned land, they had the money and they were more powerful than the Pope.
They were accused of being heretics so the Catholic Church could take their land, their money and regain political power.

(are there any Templars left to apologize to?)

Answer 4

The Church did this because the Knights Templar were in great power.They were the most powerful sect of knights, they had more power than the Pope and the King. So the Pope and the French King united to kill the knights

Answer 5

You will want to read more about this in a history book, because the history of the Roman Catholic treachery is clearly documented, and is will show you why Catholicism is not welcome in England, and why the English do not allow any Catholic person to enter Parliament. The Pope is not welcome in Enland and has never been there, either. The repercussions of the Catholic's still resonate today, and any history book will fill you in, and any current book that is English will keep you up to date. The whole story is there if you wish to go there. It is a very useful subject to know about because the Catholic's intervention in modern day life continues, and is an eye opener and presents facts that explain so much in the current world paradigm.

Answer 6

There are two totally different views on this. One is that it was founded by devout Catholics to defend the faith—a view that I’m afraid we would dispute quite vigorously. The other is the view, that it was founded for heretical reasons, by families trying to reclaim their patrimony—which was in their view the Holy Land, because they claimed descent from the high priesthood of Jerusalem.

It wasn’t one family—it was a series of them. There were 24 hereditary high priests in the temple of Jerusalem, and after the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 they scattered throughout Europe and the Far East. Their descendants kept in touch and only married within that group of families—keeping the bloodline pure and passing down their teaching in secret. Now, they knew that Jesus wasn’t God and that he had taught a form of spirituality which was totally in conformity with Judaic tradition and with the Egyptian tradition that preceded it.

These families were Gnostics. The church required you to believe in a set of fixed dogma and accept it as fact. It said that if you are not a good boy down here then you’ll burn in hell for eternity; or you could conform to church belief and join the feathered choir in heaven. The Gnostic is a different animal. He follows a teacher who teaches an ascending path of initiation, whereby more and more is revealed until ultimately you attain union with God. Examples would be Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Egyptians, or the Jewish Kabbalists. And the families we’re talking about were following something very closely akin to the Kabbalah and the Egyptian tradition.

Answer 7

There's news released from the secret Archives of the Vatican.


It was all politics as assumed by most.
The French king more greedy than the Templar's or the Pope.

Answer 8

I think the Catholic Church felt the Knights had to much power but I could be wrong

Answer 9

I believe that it was the King of France who owed them a lot of money and made a heretic charge against them to save him from paying his debt. Actually recently documents were found at the Vatican from the pope at that time which say that he never considered them excommunicated or heretic but some of their practices were misguided. So he disbanded the order.

Answer 10

The King of France (Phillip?) was heavily in debt to the Templars. Executing them was a good way to eliminate his debts and seize their wealth -- the Templars were extremely wealthy, and essentially invented banking and credit.