The Knights Templar on Trial by Helen J Nicholson
The trial of the Templars in the British Isles (1308-1311) is a largely unexplored area of history. Unlike the trial in France, where the Templars were tortured into confessing to unspeakable activities, in the British Isles there were no burnings and only three confessions after torture. Several Templars went missing, most of whom later reappeared. Outsiders told stories of abominable Templar rituals, secret meetings and murders at the dead of night, but all these tales turned out to be mere rumour. This book is based on extensive research into the records of the trial of the Templars and other unpublished medieval documents recording their arrest, imprisonment and trial, and the surveys of their property. It traces the course of this, the first heresy trial in the British Isles, from the arrests in January 1308 to the dissolution of the Order, and shows how, by judicious selection of material, the inquisitors made the scanty evidence against the Templars appear convincing. The book includes a list of all the Templars in the British Isles at the time of the arrests, and a gazetteer of the Templars' major properties in the British Isles.
Nicholson, Helen: - Prof. Helen J. Nicholson teaches at the University of Cardiff and is a leading international researcher on the history of the Knights Templar. She has written several books on the Templars, including Knight Templar (2004) and A Brief History of the Knights Templar (2010), and has published a new edition and translation of the records of the Templars' trial in Britain and Ireland, The Proceedings against the Templars in the British Isles (2011). She is currently studying the early fourteenth-century records of the Templars' estates in England and Wales.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750946810 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750946814 |
| Title | The Knights Templar on Trial |
| Author | Helen J Nicholson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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