Knights of the Catholic Church Who Also Prayed to the Devil

 His legs are fastened into an iron frame. The soles of his feet are slathered with a thick layer of grease, after which the roasting games.

He screams in pain as his interrogators use, pincers to place hot coals within his already burnt toast. If the victim doesn't die, he'll end up like the other's insane and what's the reason for this odious torture, you might ask the answer: is the man has been accused of heresy? 

Was he a heretic? Well, let's just say after days of torture, he might have confessed to anything but as you'll see today, perhaps the knights templar, once heroes of the highest degree were a victim of terrible conspiracy or maybe they were devil, worshipping cultists and that's what we'll investigate in the show the foot roasting thing was indeed real.

 It was actually just one of the many he tortures that some of the knights templar themselves endured, tortures, as we said that drove some insane on top of foot roasting. They were also deprived of sleep, starved and some were subjected to the dreaded star pado. You probably don't know what that is, but you will soon enough. First of all, some of you might be wondering who the knights templar were. 

There were formed as a roman catholic military order back in the eleven hundred. These fearless warriors of christ we're a super elite fighting force, knocking down in slaughtering anyone who stood in their way or wasn't exactly a big believer in christianity. Basically, they were god's army, at least in the eyes of the catholic church, which did behind them and back them up as well as a fighting force. 

These people became extraordinarily wealthy sure some of them were good with the sword, but many of them were also nobles were better at counting coins and they weren't counting severed heads at one point. Only ten percent of them were actual combatants, while the others were just powerful men with bags full of gold founded in jerusalem and eleven eighteen. They fought what's called the crusades. 

These were religious wars that went on for ten ninety five to twelve ninety one in jerusalem, the holy land, the templars battles with those fighting for the islam faith, but all over europe and beyond. They fought people accused of for radical beliefs. The holy land was conquered by a muslim arabs in the seventh century there, by taking it from the christian christians, wanted it back. 

That's why the first crusade, habit more crusades came after and more power was accorded to the temple so as well as more money, as tends to happen when you were screw massive wealth at some point, someone will want to take your power away in the case of the knights templar. 

This person was king, philip, the fourth of france, not surprisingly, when he started saying all manner of bad things about the templars, he owed them tons of money. In the beginning, there were just seven nights, headed by a french knight from shown pungent name. 

She was the pun. He and the other night swore to serve the church and well I'll doing that live a simple life, since they help take jerusalem back from muslims and kept on protecting christian pilgrims in jerusalem from harm. They received many donations. 

This help to grow the order with many of the night, seeing that they could do pretty well from collecting donations of land in cash. At the same time, they use the cash to build a stronger army. We won't go into their own history of many many battles. 

We think you got the picture. This band of men grew exceptionally wealthy, they invested their cash and they got into a form of banking, the majority of them hailed from france, but there were templars and other countries such as england and germany, which businesses here there and everywhere they've been called the world's first multinational corporation that often sign up in their twenties on the promise of adventure and the states living well. The actual nights might have only numbered in the hundreds when they went to battle. 

They did so sometimes with a large infantry that they'd race, as well as mercenaries mercenaries, didn't get many of the perks of the templars did so, while they fought side by side, they get their pay and we're happily sent on their way. When a new temple are joined up, they swore obedience to the top dog goal at the grandmaster. 

They also swore to serve oh god, and do so while living a simple life without many of the worldly pleasures that people enjoy, including the company of women, but don't let that poverty thing fool you to become a member.

 You almost always had to have connections and money, as one historian put it the first temple or swore oaths of chastity and poverty, but the only people that need to swear an oath of poverty are those who aren't poor to begin. 

It was actually all these rules and codes of conduct that ruined them, such rules, which, down to some people like kind of secret society and back in those days the church could become quite suspicious of secret pacts, made my men, the rules included taking that vow of poverty, but the also dictated what they wore, what the age where they slept, who they socialized with and at one point it said they had. 

Hundreds of such here are some examples translated to english. That should be sufficient for you to eat meat three times a week, except at christmas, all saints' the assumption and the feast of the twelve apostles ford is understood that the custom of eating flesh corrupts the body we prohibited, pointed shoes and shoe laces and forbidden any brother to wear them, for it is manifest and will know that these abominable things belong to pagans. 

We prohibit in firmly forbidden any brother to recount to another brother nor to anyone else. The pleasures of the flesh, no craftsman, brother, neither one from the prison nor any other, should strike a slave in such a way that he places irons round his neck without permission. 

If he is deserved it, none should put him in a pillory newer peers him with a sword without permission, but he should beat him these went on and on and on and the more rules there were, the more mysterious the templars became the outsiders.

 That's why, when some people thought they'd gotten too big for their boots, there was an excuse to go after them. Maybe it would be easy enough to convince some people that part of their rituals, including getting a bit too close to the devil. 

King, philip, the fourth of france, heard rumors, that there was corruption and the knights templar.