The Knight Templar's Part X

  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 Bannock burn, 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 precipretories.  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 Precepretori 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 Clan 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.

 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, are swept away by a tempest of 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.