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Friday the 13th, 1307

FILE DATE 1307

CROSS-REFS 02

STATUS NEVER CLOSED

SUMMARY

The day the Templars burned. Their fleet, and their treasure, sailed into legend.

FULL DOSSIER

Friday, October 13, 1307: King Philip IV of France had the Knights Templar arrested in a coordinated dawn operation across the kingdom — documented in royal warrants, trial transcripts, and the Chinon Parchment (rediscovered in the Vatican Secret Archives, 2001), in which Pope Clement V secretly absolved the order of heresy while publicly dissolving it. Philip owed the Templars ruinous sums; the confessions came under torture. The unlucky-Friday-the-13th folk belief is probably unrelated (it appears only in the 19th century), but the date became lore's favorite proof that history moves by coordinated strikes.

SOURCES ON RECORD

01Trial transcripts, Procès des Templiers (ed. Michelet)

02Chinon Parchment, Vatican Secret Archives (pub. 2007)

03Barber, The Trial of the Templars (1978)

CROSS-REFERENCED FILES

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OAK ISLAND MONEY PIT

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