 The Doom of the Templars Arguably the most famous of the Crusader orders the Templars were also accused of heresy Unlike the Teutonic order the Templar order would not survive these accusations Perhaps the Templars were in fact guilty of the various accusations leveled against them Although a more likely scenario is that their demise is the result of political developments The order was rich and the French King Philip the Fair sought to centralize power as well as to increase the wealth of the state After all the Teutonic Knights were expelled from, Pennsylvania with similar reasons The actions of the French King were supported by Pope Clement V who issued a papal bull Which ordered Christian monarchs to arrest all Knights Templars and seize their properties On the fateful Friday the 13th in October of 1307 the Templar headquarters in Paris was subject to a dawn raid Their last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, was arrested and a few years later in 1314 burned at the stake According to legend de Molay cursed the French King and his descendants from his pyre Another legend tells Van Neapolitan Templar who before his execution Warned that both Philip and Clement would be dead within a year and a day as punishment for their transgressions As fate would have it both King and Pope died within a year of Molay's burning at the stake