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Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
gave up Damiafa , and restored all their prisoners . The Sid tan on his part engaged to give the Christian army safe conduct , and to supply them with every necessary . Thus , from a principle of extreme avarice , the Christians lost the object which was the professed one of every Crusade , the recovery of the Holy City . . __ ' - - It ought not to be omittedthat among- the to whom the bad
, many success of this expedition was attributed , the Knights Templars and those of the Hospital were the heaviest accused . The ' charge brought against them was , that they had embezzled and appropriated to their own use the principal part of the sums sent by the European states towards carrying on the Crusade . The well-known character of those communities served only to give the story a favourable
reception . It spread throughout Europe , and took such a hold on the public mind in all places , that the Pope ordered an inquisition to be taken of the affair ; upon which , it proving to be a falsehood , his Holiness sent letters throughout Christendom in vindication of the accused parties . ¦ . - , ¦ In 1223 Philip II . of France diedand bequeathed to the Templars
, and Hospitallers each one hundred thousand livres . The year following the Pope and the Emperor Frederic , with a great number of other princes , held " a consultation on the ' affairs of Palestine , when Frederic , in particular , engaged himself to assume the Cross in two years'from that time . On the expiration of that period he requested the Pope to allow him the further space of two years more , and then bound
himself by oath to accomplish his promise . In the summer of 1227 he assembled his forces at Brundusium , but kept putting off his embarkation from time to time , on pretence of sickness . The Pope , irritated at his delays , thundered out against him the terrors of excommunication . Frederic , who had a spirit equal to that of the pontiff " , resisted him by force , and . actually drove him from Rome . As he looked upon the Templars and Hospitallers to be his
enemieshe-, poured out his vengeance upon them in a double measure , throughout his dominions . '¦ - He stripped them of all their possessions , and exercised the greatest severity on their persons , particularly in Sicily , where their numbers were great , and their settlements splendid . The Emperor at length etnbaiked for the Hol y Land , and arrived at Acre , September 8 , 122 S . ' Orders having come from Rome ,
prohibiting the Military Orders from serving under an excommunicated prince , the respective Grand Masters of the Templars and Hospitallers rigidly adhered to the pontifical mandate ; but the Teutonic Knights rejected it . After the Emperor had taken the field , their military spirit could not be restrained , and by help of an equivocationthey contrived to join the Imperial armywhich stood in
, , great need of their assistance . But while those generous Knights were fighting for Frederic in the East , their brethren in his territories were sustaining cona ' nuarpersecutioris by his orders . The Pope continued inflexible , and Italy was ravaged by the perpetual skirmishes of the Papal and Imperial troops . Frederic , on receiving this news , determined on returning to Europe , but wanting a pre-
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Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
gave up Damiafa , and restored all their prisoners . The Sid tan on his part engaged to give the Christian army safe conduct , and to supply them with every necessary . Thus , from a principle of extreme avarice , the Christians lost the object which was the professed one of every Crusade , the recovery of the Holy City . . __ ' - - It ought not to be omittedthat among- the to whom the bad
, many success of this expedition was attributed , the Knights Templars and those of the Hospital were the heaviest accused . The ' charge brought against them was , that they had embezzled and appropriated to their own use the principal part of the sums sent by the European states towards carrying on the Crusade . The well-known character of those communities served only to give the story a favourable
reception . It spread throughout Europe , and took such a hold on the public mind in all places , that the Pope ordered an inquisition to be taken of the affair ; upon which , it proving to be a falsehood , his Holiness sent letters throughout Christendom in vindication of the accused parties . ¦ . - , ¦ In 1223 Philip II . of France diedand bequeathed to the Templars
, and Hospitallers each one hundred thousand livres . The year following the Pope and the Emperor Frederic , with a great number of other princes , held " a consultation on the ' affairs of Palestine , when Frederic , in particular , engaged himself to assume the Cross in two years'from that time . On the expiration of that period he requested the Pope to allow him the further space of two years more , and then bound
himself by oath to accomplish his promise . In the summer of 1227 he assembled his forces at Brundusium , but kept putting off his embarkation from time to time , on pretence of sickness . The Pope , irritated at his delays , thundered out against him the terrors of excommunication . Frederic , who had a spirit equal to that of the pontiff " , resisted him by force , and . actually drove him from Rome . As he looked upon the Templars and Hospitallers to be his
enemieshe-, poured out his vengeance upon them in a double measure , throughout his dominions . '¦ - He stripped them of all their possessions , and exercised the greatest severity on their persons , particularly in Sicily , where their numbers were great , and their settlements splendid . The Emperor at length etnbaiked for the Hol y Land , and arrived at Acre , September 8 , 122 S . ' Orders having come from Rome ,
prohibiting the Military Orders from serving under an excommunicated prince , the respective Grand Masters of the Templars and Hospitallers rigidly adhered to the pontifical mandate ; but the Teutonic Knights rejected it . After the Emperor had taken the field , their military spirit could not be restrained , and by help of an equivocationthey contrived to join the Imperial armywhich stood in
, , great need of their assistance . But while those generous Knights were fighting for Frederic in the East , their brethren in his territories were sustaining cona ' nuarpersecutioris by his orders . The Pope continued inflexible , and Italy was ravaged by the perpetual skirmishes of the Papal and Imperial troops . Frederic , on receiving this news , determined on returning to Europe , but wanting a pre-