Jacques De Molay Quotes

est. 1244-5/1249-50 - March 18, 1314

Jacques de Molay (est. 1244-5/1249-50 - 18 March 1314),[1] a minor Frankish noble, served as the 23rd, and officially last, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and is probably the best known Templar besides the order's founder and first grand master, Hugues de Payns. He failed to successfully lead the Templars through the inquisitions made against them and was burnt at the stake on an island in the river Seine in Paris, Ile de la Cité, on 18 March 1314.

Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us.

Before he died it is said that he cursed both King Phillip and Pope Clement V, summoning them before God, the Supreme Judge, before the year was over.

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Quar nous navons volu ne volons le Temple mettre en aucune servitute se non tant come il hy affiert.

Jacques De Molay
— Translation: For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.
— In one of his memoranda to Pope Clement V from the summer of 1306.

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est. 1244-5/1249-50 - March 18, 1314

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