[345] Raynald. ann. 1313, No. 39.—Raynouard, pp. 205-10.—Contin. Guill. Nangiac. ann. 1313.—Joaun. de S. Victor. (Bouquet, XXI. 658).—Chron. Anon. (Bouquet, XXI. 143).—Godefroy de Paris v. 6033-6129.—Villani Chron. VIII. 92.—Chron. Cornel. Zantfliet ann. 1310 (Martene Ampl. Coll. V. 160).—Trithem. Chron. Hirsaug. ann. 1307.—Pauli Æmylii de Reb. Gest. Franc. Ed. 1569, p. 421.—Van Os, p. 111.
In his haste Philippe did not stop to inquire as to his rights over the Isle des Juifs. It happened that the monks of St. Germain des Près claimed haute et basse justice there, and they promptly complained that they were wronged by the execution, whereupon Philippe issued letters declaring that it should work no prejudice to them (Olim, II. 599).
[346] Pauli Langii Chron. Citicens. ann. 1314 (Pistorii I. 1201).—Chron. Sampetrini Erfurtens. ann. 1315 (Menken III. 325).—Naucleri Chron. ann. 1306.—Ferreti Vicentin. Hist. (Muratori S. R. I. IX. 1018).
Clement’s reputation was such that this was not the only legend of the kind about his death. While yet Archbishop of Bordeaux, he had a bitter quarrel with Walter of Bruges, a holy Franciscan whom Nicholas III. had forced to accept the episcopate of Poitiers. On his elevation to the papacy he gratified his grudge by deposing Walter and ordering him to a convent. Walter made no complaint, but on his death-bed he appealed to the judgment of God, and died with a paper in his hand in which he cited the papal oppressor before the divine tribunal on a certain day. His grip on this could not be loosened, and he was buried with it. The next year Clement chanced to pass through the place; he had the tomb opened, found the body uncorrupted, and ordered the paper to be given to him. It terrified him greatly, and at the time specified he was obliged to obey the summons.—Wadding. ann. 1279, No. 13.—Chron. Glassberger ann. 1307.
Guillaume de Nogaret, who was Philippe’s principal instrument, was the subject of a similar story. A Templar on his way to the stake saw him and cited him to appear within eight days, and on the eighth day he died.—Chron. Astena. c. 27 (Muratori S. R. I. XI. 194).
[347] Godefroi de Paris, v. 6131-45. Cf. 3876-81, 3951-2.—Procès des Templiers, II. 195.
Some of the contemporaries outside of France who attribute the affair to the greed of Philippe and Clement are—Matt. Neoburg. (Albert Argentinens.) Chron. ann. 1346 (Urstisii II. 137).—Sächsische Weltchronik, erste bairische Fortsetzung, ann. 1312 (Mon. Germ. II. 334).—Stalwegii Chron. ann. 1305 (Leibnit. III. 274).—Bothonis Chron. ann. 1311 (Leibnit. III. 374).—Chron. Comitum Schawenburg (Meibom. 1. 499).—Jo. Hocsemii Gest. Episcc. Leodiens. (Chapeaville, II. 345-6).—Chron. Astens. c. 27 (Muratori S. R. I. XI. 192-4).—Istorie Pistolesi (Ib. XI. 518).—Villani Chron. VIII. 92.
Authorities who assume the guilt of the Templars are—Ferreti Vicentini Hist. (Muratori S. R. I. IX. 1017-18).—Chron. Parmens. ann. 1309 (Ib. IX. 880).—Albertin. Mussat. Hist. August. Rubr. x. (Ib. X. 377).—Chron. Guillel. Scoti (Bouquet, XXI. 205).—Hermanni Corneri Chron. ann. 1309 (Eccard. II. 971-2). The old German word Tempelhaus, signifying house of prostitution, conveys the popular sense of the license of the Order (Trithem. Chron. Hirsaug. ann. 1307).
Henri Martin assumes that the traditions of the north of France are adverse to the Templars, and that those of the south are favorable. He instances a Breton ballad in which the “Red Monks,” or Templars, are represented as ferocious debauchees who carry off young women and then destroy them with the fruits of guilty intercourse. On the other hand, at Gavarnie (Bigorre), there are seven heads which are venerated as those of martyred Templars, and the popular belief is that on the night of the anniversary of the abolition of the Order a figure, armed cap-a-pie and bearing the white mantle with a red cross, appears in the cemetery and thrice cries out, “Who will defend the holy temple; who will liberate the sepulchre of the Lord?” when the seven heads answer thrice, “No one, no one! The Temple is destroyed!”—Histoire de France, T. IV. pp. 496-7 (Éd. 1855).
[348] Raynald. ann. 1307, No. 12.—D’Argentré I. I. 281.—Campi, Dell’ Hist. Eccles. di Piacenza, P. III. p. 43, Piacenza, 1651.—Feyjoo, Cartas I. xxviii.