The 1307 Templar Interrogation Roll - Heresy, Coercion and Royal Power

The 1307 Templar interrogation roll emerges not as a record of heresy but as a documentary apparatus for its juridical fabrication. Confessional uniformity, archival design, and eschatological framing reveal how Philip IV transformed coercive procedure into institutionalised juridical truth. Were the Templars' confessions ever anything more than a royal script?

France, fall 1307: Templar arrests, interrogations, confessions and royal-papal power struggle

"On October 12, 1307 Jacques de Molay went to Paris specifically to attend the funeral of Catherine, wife of Charles de Valois, brother of the king. He resides, of course, within the Temple enclosure. It's a coincidence that he's here. Does this mean that he knows nothing of what is going on and that he has unconsciously thrown himself into the den of the wolf? 

Beliefs of the Knights Templar - Baphomet or Christ?

Time and again in popular literature the theory is put forward that the Knights Templar worshiped "Baphomet". This is a demonic entity who later became a symbol for Satanic worships. During the Inquisition of the Templars in the 14th century, it is said, the knights were accused of worshipping this figure. Or were they? What were the beliefs of the Knights Templar: Baphomet or Christ?