After the Knights Templar order was disbanded by Pope Clement V in 1312, King Philip IV of France, deeply in debt to the Templars, had Molay and many other French Templars arrested in 1307 and tortured into making false confessions. When Molay later retracted his confession, Philip had him burned upon a scaffold on an island in the River Seine in front of Notre-Dame de Paris in March, 1314. An eyewitness to the execution stated that Molay had shown no sign of fear and had told those present that God would avenge their deaths. Allegedly, as Jacques was burning, he cursed the Pope that, within a year and a day, he and Philip IV would be obliged to answer for their crimes in God's presence. Philip and Clement V both died within a year of Molay's execution; Clement succumbed to a long illness on 20 April 1314, and Philip died due to a stroke while hunting.

Genre: Heavy Metal
Country: Germany
Album: Knights of the Cross
Year: 1998

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