Brother Yves--Flemish Knight--the Abbot

To have a better understanding of the Temples actions when they started gathering intelligence on the intentions of Pope Clement V and King Philippe the fair, their interpretation of this information was confusing at best. The way they responded to it was unusual for an institution of their fierce reputation.

The order was about 212 years old at his time, just as a comparison the United States is 236 years old in 2012. The Temple had become a force to be dealt with. It was an elite armed force, the special forces of the middle ages. They had become an economic force, they had invented international banking. They were the bankers of both the English and French crown. They also served most of the Nobel families and families of means in Europe and funded all Six of the Crusades.

They were very involved in spice and textile production, trade and distribution of fabric, linen, and tapestries throughout Europe and the Holy Land. They were the primary shippers of mechantise not only by sea but also by land using their 9,000 properties throughout Europe. They were very involved in every level of commerce from small farming, to small business like blacksmith shops to bakeries and meat markets. They of course were also involved with large business and with the government run entities.

When the warrior monks went to the mattresses in 1307 there was a vast network throughout Europe of Templar controlled properties and businesses for them to blend into . They didn't do it over night they did it over time slowly and orderly so that nobody was aware of it.

However before this was to take place they had to look like they were conducting business as usual from the various precepretories excursions frequently with small loads of the Treasury and documents and a delivery system was developed to transfer assets to the Paris Preceptories and from there on to Flanders to the Cistercian farm at Cambron.

When I say knights I am making reference to the whole support system that goes along with each knight. Seven horses, a sergeant, a vet/ medical person, chaplain, and four to six squires per knight. This entourage is frequently referred to as “Gentlemen” of the Temple. Frequently these knights were unaware of their cargo, they didn't have a need to know.

Flanders and France had been at war from 1297 to 1305, in 1302 France was defeated at the Battle of the Golden Spurs. However two years later they were again under the rule of the French crown. At the Peace treaty of Athis, Flanders had won its independence and was to exist as a fief to the crown of France, with the exception of Lillie, Douai, and Bethune which were surrendered to France.

In 1300 the Count of Flanders Robert de Bethune along with his father Guy de Dampierre who were both Knights of the warrior monks were imprisoned and King Philippe seized the southern portion of Flanders. They weren't released until 1305 after the Peace treaty of Athis.

In 1307 on the 26^th of March a very strange occurrence took place. King Philippe summoned Count Bethume to Tours the Palace of King Philippe the fair. He was advised of the King's plan to persecute and arrest the Templar's on Oct 13^th of that year. He was requested to cooperate in this event, this occurred 6 month's prior to the arrests taking place. The count bore a great grudge against the French King bordering on homicidal hatred.

King Philippe eldest son was not well respected by the King, Prince Louis X le Hutin, who married Marguerite de Bourgogne, while his third son Prince Charles IV, was married to her sister. They were both the daughters of Richard II, the duke of Burgundy, and his wife duchess Mahaut d' Artois. Philip didn't have any use or respect for these two sons only his middle son Prince Philippe V le Long was in the graces of the King. Although he considered these two sons to be fools they were at best Royal fools. They had all the privileges of Prince's in the Royal Court and sat on the King's council and kept abreast of the business of state including military action and covert operation well before they happened like the pending arrests of the Templar's.

Prince Louis X, being a fool, while having pillow talk with his unfaithful wife, relayed the going on's of State business. Like the pending arrest of the Templar's. This of course was relayed directly to her mother duchess Mahaut!

Duchess Mahaut was very involved in the textile and fabric industry, and her bankers, distributors, and shippers were the Templar's.

When the Flemish Knight gave the signal it was obeyed by every knight except one which was attested to in documents. The bailey of the lower valley of the Rhone, was accused of treason along with the hierarchy of the Order by the Flemish Knight.

The hierarchy of the Temple although aware well in advance of King Philippe intentions, didn't act prudently. They didn't realize the intentions of their own corrupt Pope. They were counting on the rivalry between the Vatican and the crown of France. Perhaps they didn't realize that the King had assassinated the two previous Popes. Perhaps they didn't realize that Pope Clement V, and the King were boyhood friends.

Grand Master Jacques Molay felt that the Vatican would come to their rescue not the other way around. The Temple felt that the Pope would threaten the King with excommunication and the entire state of France also. If this were to be the case then the warrior monks could have gone for their weapons because the Army of France wouldn't have been considered christen. This was a fatal mistake that Jacques de Molay had made and dealt a fatal blow to the order.

The vile Pope Clement V, betrayed the warrior monks based on self interest, greed, and political gain. Pope Clement V gave the properties of the Order to his mistress, his son, and to his nephews before the abolition of the order.

When the Flemish Knight gave the word, their was an automatic tightening of security throughout the Temple, every monk knew not to speak of any of the Temple's business. In navy speak we would say they went to “General Quarters”. They went to battle stations from the island of Cyprus and throughout Europe. They were instructed to destroy all records of Temple doctrine, daily routine, documents pertaining to finances that weren't forwarded to the Paris Preceptory.

The warrior monks were bankers not misers. Therefore their money and assets were kept in motion, and not kept in one place. They were not hoarding monetary assets in their castles, it doesn't make money there. A significant amount of their assets were lent out to the Nobel families and to the crown of both England and France to build villages, infrastructure, Gothic Cathedrals, castles, and the financing of battles, wars and crusades.

Under torture a knight confessed to an inquisitor, he described a orderly departure of knights associated with the orders treasury. There wasn't a panicked evacuation at the last moment. The same knight under torture testified that the Master of the Paris Preceptory departed by sea with fifty horses.

The Temple, with the exception of the Vatican, was the central pillar of western Christendom.

The Temple was the most powerful, most important, most prestigious, most unshakable institution of its time.

I think you could make the same analogy of the United States. I think it is important to take a look at this to understand what was about to happen to the Temple Treasury.

Imagine that in today's world during a time of peace a government official, a middle manager so to speak, not a cabinet secretary, perhaps a glorified clerk in the agriculture department. The clerk gives an order for all the cash reserves in the National Bank, all the important documents used in running the country, to be collected and turned over to him.

He then asks that all the money, the Fort Knox gold, priceless art pieces from the White House and the Smithsonian to be turned over to him so he can hide it in a secret location that only he knows of, Without question this happens. It happens without the knowledge of the Executive branch or any of the cabinet secretaries. But with their approval! He was obeyed on the spot!

No one would believe that this could ever happen, but that's exactly what happened at the Temple. In this case the glorified clerk in the Department of Agriculture, was the Flemish Knight of the Knight Templar's.

When information came to the Flemish Knight of the plans of King Philippe and Pope Clement V, while the Grand Master and the upper echelon of the order were in denial the Flemish knight took action.

Just like in a modern office building, or a large corporation, General quarters on a Navy ship, the order to scramble a squadron of fighter interceptors with a signal from NORAD. The Flemish Knight gave the signal!

He gave the signal and certain knights in the Temple took action without question, without discussion and without letting other brother monks know what was happening.

The Flemish Knight departed for the Abbey of Cambron at Wodecq in Flanders immediately after receiving the information of King Philippe's intentions. At the monastery he met with a relative who happened to be the Abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Cambron and a brother monk.

Abbot Jacques de Plusquit, after a short discussion with the Flemish knight, summoned an elderly monk from the abbey's farm and by doing so interrupted his writings of the day. He was a well known scientist and intellectual who joined the Cistercian monastery late in life.

The old monk's name was Yves le Lessines he came at the Abbot's request, and with a two minute discussion it was decided to take immediate action and left with the Flemish Knight at once.

When they arrived at the Paris preceptory the Flemish knight gave the signal and certain knights took action like a well oiled machine. Immediately the signal was sent to every preceptory in Europe, the knights went to a heightened state of security, all knights were instructed not to discuss any of the orders business with anyone. They immediately started an audit of all assets, started to call in debts, and destroying records, documents pertaining to the order, daily routines, financial records were all destroyed except for audit records which were to be transferred to the Paris preceptory, along with the assets of the treasury from each preceptory. The Masters of the preceptories throughout Europe started making excursion with small caravans, transferring farm goods, hay, livestock and normal looking barrels and chests on horse drawn carts from one location to another throughout the 9,000 properties under the order of the Temple. The knights making the trips weren't aware of what was in the barrel's and chests, they didn't have the need to know.

The Temple had learned a lesson from seventy years ago when brother warrior monks were persecuted by yet an other corrupt King. Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen (1194-1250) Had made the warrior monks his scapegoats for his horrendous behavior during the 6^th Crusade in 1229. He had persecuted the pilgrims he was suppose to protect then turned his wrath on the Italian Templar's after they had rescued him from the fortress of Jean de Arc that he had taken refuge in and was kept under siege for over a month. They delivered him under an armed escort to a Templar ship. However he had treated the men of the meat trade poorly and they were waiting for him on the pass through the village on the way to the ship and pelted him with excrement and animal waste. He arrived at the ship humiliated, stinking and seeking revenge.

To show his gratitude he persecuted the Italian Templar's raiding their preceptory and stealing their assets and property. The warrior monks had long memories they never again trusted any monarch and they made preparation for future assault’s against the Order.

Seventy years later when the church and the Crown of France was preparing to persecute them they were prepared. They had decided that if they were ever in a crisis in the future they would not obey a brother monk but a signal. This would protect them in case they were infiltrated by a traitor. Select monks, not part of the Grand Masters leadership would each have select responsibilities to perform.

When you hide a treasure it is to be retrieved at a later date not necessarily by the same knights who had hidden it. It needed to be placed in a safe place where it wouldn't be noticed. The area needed to be politically stable, security and compartmentalized information was of utmost importance. Only a few people should know the location and these people shouldn't be in a position of leadership but have eyes on the ground. Be aware of whats going on, in a position to observe the daily happenings, who's coming and going the general gossip Such as a modern day cab driver.

The area needed to be Templar friendly, a place where they don't attract attention and have had a good relation with the local's. Someplace not in France, England, Germany, Italy, or Spain. This left Scotland, Portugal, Flanders or America. The Templar's knew about America for quite some time the Norse roots of the Temple run deep.

Question: Where would you hide a pebble? Answer: On the beach!

Today Flanders is a political community with in Belgium. In the middle ages Flanders was one of the most urbanized and richest parts of Europe. This was because of the textile industry. The Temple was very involved in this industry. They produced wool from their farms, they weaved it into textile, they distributed it not only on their ships but also on overland caravans into France, Germany and the Netherlands. They of course were also the bankers to the industry.

Warrior monks were both a common site and well respected in Flanders. The Abbey of Cambron was outside of Wodecq Flanders, which was a very unique area due to a Papal Decree making it exempt from any civil or religious rule. The local bishop didn't have any rights in that area and he wasn't allowed to excommunicate any of the Cistercian monks or citizens of Wodecq.

The Cambronchaux a very large Cistercian farm outside of Wodecq had an extremely large barn. This was an ideal site for the destination of the Treasure. No one would question monks going about normal farming activities. Warrior monks escorting carts of hay, wool, livestock, and other agricultural items also would not have attracted attention. This also would be a common sight because of frequent thefts and pillaging from soldiers in the area from the frequent battles with France over the last several years.

The Flemish Knight and brother Yves and their work cut out for them in the back of a distillery on the grounds of the Paris preceptoy they had acquired 21 large barrels and had transferred the gold, silver, jewels, precious stones, and documents to the barrels and covered them with a thick coat of grease.

One at a time they were loaded onto a cargo vessel in the Seine River and they made their way to the Atlantic. At a property close to the mouth of the Seine river they were transferred with other cargo to ships from the seaport at le Rochelle which in turn delivered their cargo without a lot of pomp and splendor to Luys Flanders where they were again met by brother warrior monks who assumed they were just transferring agricultural products to the barn at Cambronchaux.

They were escorted in company of knight Templar's in full battle dress, to protect them from the highway robbers, unemployed soldiers, laying around waiting for another war, pillaging the local fields and farmers to survive.

With a large frame in the barn other young monks were waiting to unload the barrels and set them along the side of the interior of the barn one at a time, under the supervision of brother Yves. The young monks thought it strange that such a man of intellect was doing mundane chores around the barn, but the old monk just smiled and said he has writers block from time to time.

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THE BATTLE OF TEBA

The village of Teba sits 50 miles from the seaport of Maluga Spain. In 1330 a battle took place which wasn't which wasn't related to the sovereignty of Scotland but contributed to the demise of the temples age old enemy the Muslims.

The events that led to that conflict started on the death bed of Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.  The Bruce had always dreamt of leading a crusade to the Holy Land.

Robert the Bruce was dying from leprosy, unusual to die from natural causes with such a turbulent history as a warrior.  His lifelong friend and chief of his army the “ Good Sir James” was instructed that upon his death he was to remove his heart, embalm it, place it in a silver casket, and deliver it on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and bury his heart at the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem.

Sir James Douglas father, Sir William Lord Douglas who had been murdered in the Tower of London by King Edward I.  The Good Sir James had been born into a family whose loyalty to the Scottish crown was beyond reproach.

The Good Sir James was educated in Paris and returned home when he was 18, motivated by his father’s death he immediately laid claims to his lands which King Edward I denied him and was the first nobleman to pledge loyalty to the excommunicated King of Scotland.

He fought along the side of the Bruce all his life and also died in service to his King in 1330 at the battle of Teba. During the battle of Bannockburn he was second in command.  He struck fear into the hearts of the English army by chasing them across the Bannockburn River.   His Templar warrior monks chased them dry-shod across the river and all the way to Berwick without stopping and earning the name of the “Black Douglas”.

Prior to the battle of Bannockburn Sir James along with Sir Robert Keith were co-commanders of a reconnaissance force which made missions over the border of England on Intelligence gathering operations?  His terrorizing of bordering counties and villages to the south of Scotland drove fear into the hearts of English women and children to the point they were afraid to close their eyes at night.

The Good Sir James took the Bruce's heart upon his death in 1329, embalmed it, put it in a small silver casket and along with Templar Master Earl Henry Sinclair, the 7^th Baron of Roslyn,

 Organized a pilgrimage to the Holy Land that departed from N. Berwick and slayed a course fetching Luys Flanders in the spring of 1330.

The Knights that Earl Sir Henry Sinclair selected primarily based upon their lifelong allegiance to the king, their service in the battles of the war of independence, and their unwavering loyalty to the crown of Scotland.

They included Earl Sir Angus Og MacDonald, Earl Sir Alan Cathart, and Sir Symon Locard, who had distinguished himself several times during the war of Scottish independence, for his services he rode to the right of The Good Sir James as the “Key Holder” of the perpetual silver casket containing the heart of Robert the Bruce.  Sir Symon Locard, who claimed the jewel that became known to history as the” Lee Penny”.  Sir William and John Sinclair the sons of Earl Henry Sinclair who was in ill health and was unable to participate in the pilgrimage.  Sir William Sinclair was commander of the Templar’s during the battle of Bannockburn. And his brother John served as his squire. Sir William Keith son of Robert Keith who was a senior General in the army of Robert the Bruce, and was commander of the “fresh force” of Knight Templar's who charged in an assassin strike against King Edward II during the battle of Bannockburn, they were accompanied by 29 Gentlemen of the Temple.

All brother warrior monks of the poor knights of Solomon's Temple. Having been granted save passage by King Edward III of England the pilgrimage set out in the spring of 1330.  They departed N. Berwick and made an uneventful passage to the origins of the Temple in Flanders where they remained for 12 days resting after their journey, and where other warrior monks were arriving from throughout Europe waiting to join the pilgrimage.

They were to set sail for Finnestere in the northwest of Spain; however word reached them that the King of Castile, Alphonso XI, in his efforts to drive the Saracens out of Grenada had laid siege to the (castle of the stars) at Teba, which had been captured by the Saracen army.

The Good Sir James sent word that they were prepared to join forces with King Alphonso.  The King was delighted the Good Sir James reputation had preceded him.  King Alphonso awarded him the right flank of the Castilian army.

On the morning of August 25^th 1330, the Saracen army had assembled below the castle and sounded their trumpets:

The Good Sir James misinterpreted the trumpets as a rally to charge, Sir James charged the Saracens, although not supported by the rest of the Castilian army because of a lack of communication.  He was able to contain the Saracens, unable to withstand the charging Templar’s; the Saracens began fleeing with Sir James true to his reputation giving purist. Shortly a good portion of his mounted Calvary fell off, to rejoin the main army.  History is unclear whether this was by command of Sir James, standard operating procedure, or a decision made by subordinate commanders.

Soon after Sir James turned his horse to join the Knights and observed Sir William Sinclair surrounded by the enemy, immediately Sir John Sinclair, Earl Sir Angus Og MacDonald, Earl Sir William Cathart. Sir Robert & John Logan, with most of the 29 Gentlemen of the Temple in close route. 

The Good Sir James, the Black Douglas removed the silver casket that was hung around his neck shouting the words  “A Bruce—A Bruce” and hurled the silver casket into the massing Saracens shouting “Be thou in the van brave heart as thou wast ever wont and Douglas will follow or Die”.

The Good Sir James and the entire Templar contingent were all slaughtered, but they were able to divert enough Saracens away from the main thrust to enable King Alphonso Castilian army to overrun the remainder of the Saracens and capture the castle.

Sir William Keith had broken his arm the day before the battle so wasn't in the conflict, Sir Symon Locard, survived the battle, history doesn't show why, both these knights were the only Scottish survivors of the battle.

Sir Symon Locard took an Emir “prince” captive and put him up for ransom.  The emir's mother came to pay ransom with gold, silver, and a jewel.  History indicates that the Jewel wasn't part of the ransom and was taken against her will, but she allowed it to same her son’s life.

The Jewel was said to have magical powers, it was said to stop bleeding, reduce fevers, reduce inflammation from animal bites, and was able to be used in the veterinary sciences.  This is the tradition of the Lee Penny.

The jewel or stone is dark red in color and triangular in shape. It is mounted on a silver coin which hangs from a silver chain. The coin has been identified as a silver penny piece from the reign of King Edward IV (1422-1483).

The penny is dipped in water; the water is drunk to reduce fevers, and used as an irrigation fluid to cleanse wounds animal bites, and also to bathe patients in. During the use of the solution, it must be administered without speech, under the Latin rule or it will be ineffective.  If words are used a person could be accused of sorcery!

The ability of the stone spread throughout Europe like wild fire and there were many recorded occasions where it was successful.  It was common practice right into the 19^th century to be commonly used in many dispensaries and by veterinarians.

Sir William Keith is credited with retrieving the remains of the fallen Knights and the silver casket containing the heart of Robert the Bruce. Although Bruce never achieved leading a crusade in his lifetime he was at the battle of Teba in spirit.

As was the custom in the middle ages Sir William boiled the bodies in vinegar, separating the flesh from the bones, as in Templar tradition placing the bones in a small bone box or casket with the femur crossed under the skull and the rest of the bones at the bottom of the casket.

Sir William then delivered the casket to the Royal Families, with the dreadful news and the Caskets for burial.  Robert the Bruce was buried at Melrose Chapel.  Sir James Douglas was interred in St. Bride’s chapel in Lancashire Scotland; Angus Og MacDonald was interred at Iona in the Herbicides Islands. Sir William & John Sinclair were interred at the family property Roslyn castle not to be confused with Roslyn Chapel which wasn’t built yet.

BRUCE--ESCAPE OF THE TEMPLE--FLEMISH KNIGHT

The Knights Templar lost Acre to the Saracens in 1291, and thus lost the primary focus of their purpose for existing and that is when their downward spiral began. The decade and a half following the fall of Acre was a period of decline for the Temple. Followed by the French and Church of Romes Inquisition that focused on the destruction of the warrior monk's.

Robert the Bruce's career spans this very important period in history. Robert was made Earl of Carrick in 1292, the high point of his career was with the success at the battle of Bannockburn, three months after the death of Jacques de Molay.

In 1306 Robert the Bruce was excommunicated from the Church of Rome and was at odds with the church for the next twelve years. Since Robert the Bruce Monarch of Scotland was excommunicated then so was Scotland. So when the Pope issued a decree that terminated the order of the “Poor knights of the Temple of Solomon” it wasn't recognized in Scotland.

Since Scotland was the only place in Europe that the church didn't have any influence over the renegade knights, who went underground, and started making their way to the open arms of Robert the Bruce who unlike the Republican Tea Party in 2012, was delighted to have an illegal immigrant problem . These illegals had significant skills as fighting men and swelled the ranks of Robert the Bruce's' army

In France there were at least five hundred twenty precipretoies. It is said that there were over 1500 renegade knights in the mountains of St. Bartholomew in the south of France. Some made their way to Portugal and reorganized into the Knights of Christ. Many headed for Scotland by the western coast of Ireland.

Because the Templar's were heavily involved in seafaring they had many properties, castles, and precepretoies on the rivers canals and waterways of France, England and Ireland. They also maintained smaller fleets of coastal cargo craft. There were several properties and twelve full precepretoies on the Seine River between Paris and the coast. It would have been next to impossible for the knights fleeing the Paris precepretoies to reach either their seaport in Rochelle, Spain ,or Portugal over land. But using the fleet of coastal cargo vessels, and using their string of a dozen properties as safe houses, they would have been able to make their way to the coast and meet the ships leaving Rochelle and make their way to Ireland.

One of the Templar's confessed under torture that the Master of the Paris Precepretoiey departed by sea with fifty horses. Its important to remember that the Flemish Knight reported to the Abby of Cambron that the Temple had intelligence as to when exactly the arrests would occur, so they had six months to prepare for their escape and to hide their assets. The inquisition arrested 620 knights as documents released by the Vatican in 2005 certify, however it is thought that the Temple had 20,000 monks of all occupations.

The Templar Master of Ireland was arrested along with thirty six of his knights, they were interrogated and released without the wrath of the inquisition. It is felt that some of the properties in Ireland were used by fleeing Templar's from England and France seeking refuge . It is also felt that many of the Templar's that were stationed at the properties in Ireland also departed for Scotland and became part of the fighting forces of Bruce and took up residence on the properties of William Sinclair.

There is evidence of Templar's in Scotland in the early 1300's. In the area of Loch Awe, Kilchurn, Argyle, the small island, more of a mud flat in the lake called Innis Searraiche, these sites have graves and stone structures that are evidence of Templar refuge in the time of the persecution of the warrior monks. These sites were under the control of Earl Neil Campbell, brother in law of Robert the Bruce.

Shortly after the death of Jacques de Molay the Flemish Knight returned to the Abby at Orval where Yves de Lessines was patiently waiting for him. ( see Knight Templar’s part III) Almost eight years earlier the Flemish Knight had ordered the removal of the Paris precepretoies vast treasure to be covertly removed and brought to Brother Yves and to be hidden by the Cistercian monks at Orval from the impure world.

The secret location now was with three monks, the Flemish Knight, the Abbot of Cambron at Orval and Yves de Lessines. These three would take the secret to their grave. The temple was the private army of God! The three warrior monks watched Christs army being destroyed by greed, envy, the imperfections of the undisciplined soul, that man has been subject to since the beginning of time. Wealth, money, treasure, power corrupts the soul.

The three men were the purest form of humanity locked in a pact beyond death. A desire for the Temple to rise out of the Ashes like the Phoenix had before, and to rebuild . With the unwavering hope that the Temple will live again, one day soon. As soon as the corrupt King and the sinning Pope and the barking dogs and army of vultures known as Domin-caines is swept away by a tempest by God.

Perhaps the Tempest had arrived :

King Philippe the Fair died in a hunting accident November 27, 1314, seven months after Grand Master Jacques de Molay, predicted he and Pope Clement V, would die, within a year of his death. Pope Clement V, died a month after Jacques de Molay, in April 1314.

BANNOCKBURN PART V

Most historians are in agreement that the Scottish army was made up almost exclusively of foot soldiers armed with axes, picks, and spears Its felt that swords were rather rare and only in possession of mounted Calvary which King Bruce had dreadfully few of.

However John Barbour, the fourteenth-- century historian, writes that....from the lowlands Bruce could boast of armored men, a full great host. From such chronicles of the battle as these comes reports that their was a charge against the English archers by a armored mounted Calvary. Who until then was kept in reserve as part of Bruce's personal reserve.

It is strikingly interesting that when the entire Scottish army was engaged and mind you we are talking a force of six to nine thousand soldiers against a force of thirty to thirty-eight thousand.....all of a sudden what the English regarded as a “ fresh force” erupted from the rear of the Scottish formation, with banners flying!

History states that this fresh force was made up of yeomen, camp followers, youngsters,and other non-combatants however this is a fairytale ,which does much to create patriotic zeal among the Scottish people.

However the fact of the matter is, that if this spontaneous fresh force was instantaneous, it would have surprised and startled the Scottish army as much as it did the English. That confusion didn't take place. Does that mean that the Scots were expecting the assassins charge from the rear of their echelon.

Panic swept the English ranks, the heavily armored English mounted Calvary made a hasty retreat, which would never have happened by an attack of foot soldiers, weather they were camp followers and peasants or not!

King Edward with five hundred of his mounted knights immediately departed the field. Thirty thousand foot soldiers following their King, took route. They abandoned their supplies, money, their Armour, weapons, silver plate and gold.

Some accounts speak of a dreadful slaughter, the fact is only one Earl, thirty eight Barron’s and knights were reported to have been killed. They did not die from a Scottish attack so much as from fear!

But what was the cause of this fear? Common peasants wielding pitch forks and axes, I think not. However under the banners of flying colors and the smock with red rosy cross over armored clad knights, mounting an assassins strike, where a regiment or in medieval times a contingent of mounted knights charging not the archers, spear men, and other unmounted and mounted elements of the English force, but making a deliberate and direct bee line for the command elements to include the King his Earls and Barron’s.

This is a technique learned from the Muslim Hashish eaters, or in Arabic, Assassins from the crusades. Where by sending a small force of highly trained killers, they take out the leadership of their opponent and strike fear into the opposing army. When this happens, with out their leaders, chaos usually occurs and the armies fall apart without leadership.

We use assassin strikes to this day we call them Special Operations Command .In the US they are also known as Delta Force, Seal Teams, Green Berets, Force Recon and other Special Forces to achieve the same outcome as what happened with the Battle of Bannockburn..

BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN PART IV

Bannockburn was decisive, one of the most meaningful battles of the middle ages, probably the most significant battle ever fought on British soil. As we look at the battle we are able to see some very meaningful but underlying evidence that the Templar's were more involved than is historicly reported.

The Reign of Robert the Bruce after Bannockburn was stormy until the time of his death in 1329, it put an end to the English oppression of Scotland and for the next 289 years Scotland was to remain an independent Kingdom.

Robert was Childless and had decided that his brother Edward would succeed him. Edward had departed for Ireland and was Crowned King of Ireland in Dundalk in 1316. This put him in the position to unite both countries under one crown, however he died in 1318, which left both countries without a monarch once again.

It was then decided that the thrown of Scotland would pass to his grandson, Robert the son of Marjorie Bruce and Walter the Stewart.

In 1329 Robert the Bruce died, and his grandson Robert II became the King of Scotland the first of the Stewart dynasty.

Before his death he had requested that upon his death, his heart be removed, placed in a casket, and brought to Jerusalem and buried at the church of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1330 five Templar Knights Sir William Sinclair, Sir James Douglas, Sir William Keith and two other warrior monks departed for the Holy Land.

Sir James Douglas carried Bruce's heart in a silver casket hung around his neck. Their path took them through Spain where they joined Knight Templar King Alfonso XI of Castile. They accompanied King Alfonso on his campaign against the Moors of Grenada.

On March 25, 1330 at the battle of Tabas de Ardales, the Scots riding in the Vanguard, were surrounded.

According to the fourteenth century chronicle, Sir Douglas removed from his neck the silver casket, containing Bruce's heart and hurled it into the attacking forces shouting:

Braveheart, that ever foremost led,

Forward ! As thou wast wont. And

I shall follow thee, or else shall die!

Having hurled the heart at the enemy he and his fellow Templar's charged into the midst of the opposing forces. And all died by the Latin rule! Death before dishonor. Sir William Keith had broken his arm prior to the battle so he didn't participate in the battle, he was said to have recovered the silver casket containing Bruce's heart and returned it to Scotland.

It was buried in Melrose Abby, under the east window of the Chancel. In the early nineteenth century, Bruce's grave at Dunfermline was opened and it was found that his femur bones were crossed under his skull in Templar fashion.

The crossed femur bones go back to the first century and before when the Jew's would leave the bodies out in the tomb to decompose and a year later return to put the remains in a “bone box” called a Ossuary.

I'VE BEEN HACKED

Any one received a post from me stuck at a desk all day---this is not from me I've been hacked --trying to track it right now