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EPISODE · Mar 22, 2026 · 16 MIN

God's Army for Sale: The Night a King Destroyed the Knights Templar - On March 22, 1312

from The Daily History Chronicle · host Richard G Backus

On March 22, 1312, Pope Clement V officially dissolved the Knights Templar but a document buried in the Vatican Archives for 693 years proves he had already declared them innocent. This episode examines the real machinery behind the Templars' destruction: institutional power, fabricated charges, a compromised oversight body, and a legal process engineered to produce a predetermined verdict. It's a medieval story with an architecture that never quite goes away.

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