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The "rois maudits" (note the plural) were so called
not b/c Philippe le Bel died, but b/c his four (I
think) sons and grand-son died also without male issue
(that survived) and thus the line of direct Capetians
ended.
I offer the following:
There are many accounts of Jacques DeMolay's dying
words, but one of the foremost Templar scholars
records them as follows:
"It is just that, in so terrible a day, and in
the last moments of my life, I should discover all the
iniquity of falsehood, and make the truth triumph. I
declare, then, in the face of heaven and earth, and
acknowledge, though to my eternal shame, that I have
committed the greatest crimes but it has been the
acknowledging of those which have been so foully
charged on the order. I attest - and truth obliges me
to attest - that it is innocent! I made the contrary
declaration only to suspend the excessive pains of
torture, and to mollify those who made me endure them.
I know the punishments which have been inflicted on
all the knights who had the courage to revoke a
similar confession; but the dreadful spectacle which
is presented to me is not able to make me confirm one
lie by another. The life offered me on such infamous
terms I abandon without regret." [I]n his final
moments and before he died he cursed both Philip and
Pope Clement, summoning both of them to appear before
God, the supreme judge, before the year was out. His
last words were, "Let evil swiftly befall those who
have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us." Guy
of Auvergne is reported to have added, "I shall follow
the way of my master as a martyr you have killed him.
You have done and know not. God willing, on this day,
I shall die in the Order like him."
MG
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