Enquiry of Jacques de Molay

This page is an appendix of the article Jacques de Molay.

It contains the major extracts of the texts on the “consents” of the main Templier provides by the enquiry of the time.

Text of the enquiry

has U name of Christ, amen. That is to say obvious with all, by this public instrument, that in the year of the Lord millet three hundred and seven, sixth indiction, in October, the twenty-fourth day of the known as month, the second year of the pontificate of very the Holy Father the lord Clement V, pope by Divine Providence, in the presence of monk man and honest Guillaume brother of Paris, about the Preachers, inquisitor of perversity heretic, appointed in the Kingdom of France by the apostolic authority, in the house of the militia of the Temple in Paris, to inform against certain people who are and are shown there in front of known as crime of heresy, in presence also of we, public notaries, and from the undersigned witnesses, brother Jacques de Molay, large main about the Militia of the temple, appearing in person and having sworn on the Saint-Gospels, with him presented and touched by him, to say on oneself and the others, in a lawsuit concerning the faith, the truth pure, simple and whole, and questioned on the time and the mode of its reception, called under oath which there is forty-two last years that it was accepted in Beaune, the diocese of Autun, by brother Humbert de Pairaud, knight, in the presence of Amaury brother of the Rock and several other brothers, names which he does not remember.

I L as says under oath as after it had made several promises relating to the observances and the status of the Order, they reflect the coat with the neck to him. And that which received it made bring in its presence a bronze cross on which was the image of Christ, and says to him and prescribes to him to disavow the Christ whose image was there. And him, though in spite of him, did it; and then that which received it prescribed him to spit on it, but it spit with ground. Questioned on the point of knowing how much time it did it, it says under oath which it spit only once; and that well he remembers.

I nterrogé about to know if, when it made the vow of chastity, one says to him to be linked charnellement with his brothers, it answered under oath that not and that it never did it.

R equis to declare under oath if the other brothers of known as Ordre are received in this manner, it says that it believed that nothing had been done to him that one had made with the others; moreover he added that he created little Templiers. He however says under oath that after having received those which he created, he prescribed with some of the assistants to lead them to share and to do to them what they owed. He as says under oath as its intention was that one made them and prescribed to them what had been made to him and prescribed, and that they were in the same way received.

I nterrogé about to know if it had mingled with its deposition some falseness, or you it truth thereafter of violences, the fear of tortures or of the prison or for some other cause, it says under oath that not; that on the contrary he had said the plain truth for the safety of his heart.

Depositions of other dignitaries of the Order

to come.

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