[89]Adjecit etiam et aliaa spiritu superbiæ, quo ipse plurimum abundabat, dictata, quæ præsenti narrationi no multum necessarium est interserere.—Will. Tyr.lib. xx. cap. 32.
[90]Will. Tyr.lib. xxi. cap. 20, 22, 23. Abulfeda Abulpharadge, Chron. Syr. p. 379.
[91]Capti sunt ibi de nostris, Otto de Sancto Amando militiæ Templi Magister, homo nequaquam superbus et arrogans, spiritum furoris habens in naribus, nec Deum timens, nec ad homines habens reverentiam.—Will. Tyr.lib. xxi. cap. 29, Abulpharadge, Chron. Syr. p. 380, 381.
[92]Abulpharadge, Chron. Syr. ut sup. Menologium Cisterciente, p. 194.Bernardus Thesaurariusde acq.Terr. Sanc.cap. 139.
[93]Dicens non esse consuetudinis militum Templi ut aliqua redemptio daretur pro eis præter cingulum et cultellum. Chron.TrivetapudHall, vol. i. p. 77.
[94]Eodem anno quo captus est in vinculis et squalore carceris, nulli lugendus, dicitur obiisse.—Will. Tyr.lib. xxi. cap. 29. Ib. lib. xxii. cap. 7. Gallia christiana nova, tom. i. col. 258; ibid p. 172, instrumentorum.
[95]Abulfeda, ad ann. 1182, 3.Will. Tyr.lib. xxii. cap. 16-20.
[96]Unde propter causas prædictas generali providentia statutum est, ut Jerosolymitanus Patriarcha, petendi contra immanissimum hostem Saladinum auxilii gratia, ad christianos principos in Europam mitteretur; sed maxime ad illustrem Anglorum regem, cujus efficacior et promptia opera sperabatur.—Hemingford, cap. 33;Radulph de Diceto, inter;Hist. Angl.X. script. p. 622.
[97]Concil. Magn. Brit. tom. iv. p. 788, 789.
[98]Arnauldof Troy.Radulph de Diceto, ut sup. p. 625.
[99]Eodem anno (1185,) Baldewinus rex Jerusalem, et Templares et Hospitalares, miserunt ad regem Angliæ Heraclium, sanctæ civitatis Jerusalem Patriarcha, et summos Hospitalis et Templi Magistros una cum vexillo regio, et clavibus sepulchri Domini, et turris David, et civitatis Jerusalem; postulantes ab eo celerem succursum ... qui statim ad pedes regis provoluti cum fletu magno et singultu, verba salutationis ex parte regis et principum et universæ plebis terræ Jerosolymitanæ proferebant ... tradiderunt ei vexillum regium, etc. etc.—Hoveden, ad ann. 1185;Radulph de Diceto, p. 626.
[100]Matt. Westm.ad ann. 1185;Guill. Neubr.tom. i. lib. iii. cap. 12, 13.Chron. Dunst.
[101]Speed.Hist. Britain, p. 506.A. D.1185.
[102]Stowe’sSurvey;Tanner, Notit. Monast.;Dugd.Orig. Jurid.
[103]Herbert, Antiq. Inns of Court.
[104]“Yea, and a part of that too,” says Sir William Dugdale, in hisorigines juridiciales, as appears from the first grant thereof to Sir William Paget, Knight, Pat. ii. Edward VI. p. 2.
[105]We read on many old charters and deeds, “Datum apudvetusTemplum Londoniæ.” See an example,Nichols’Leicestershire, vol. iii. p. 959; see also the account, in Matt. Par. and Hoveden, of the king’s visit to Hugh bishop of Lincoln, who lay sick of a fever at the Old Temple, and died there, the 16th November,A. D.1200.
[106]Anno ab incarnatione Domini MCLXXXV. facta est ista inquisitio de terrarum donatoribus, et earum possessoribus, ecclesiarum scil. et molendinorum, et terrarum assisarum, et in dominico habitarum, et de redditibus assisis per Angliam, per fratrem Galfridum filium Stephani, quando ipse suscepit balliam de Anglia, qui summo studio prædicta inquirendo curam sollicitam exhibuit, ut majoris notitiæ posteris expressionem generaret, et pervicacibus omnimodam nocendi rescinderet facultatem. Ex. cod. MS. in Scacc. penes Remor. Regis. fol. i. a.;Dugd.Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part ii. p. 820.
[107]Quorum res adeo crevit in immensum, ut hodie, trecentos in conventu habeant equites, albis chlamydibus indutos: exceptis fratribus, quorum pene infinitus est numerus. Possessiones autem, tam ultra quam citra mare, adeo dicuntur immensas habere, ut jam non sit in orbe christiano provincia quæ prædictis fratribus suorum portionem non contulerit, et regiis opulentiis pares hodie dicuntur habere copias.—Will. Tyr.lib. xii. cap. 7.
[108]Dominus Baldwinus illustris memoriæ, Hierosolymorum rex quartus, Gazam munitissimam fratribus militiæ Templi donavit,Will. Tyr.lib. xx. cap. 21. Milites Templi Gazam antiquam Palæstinæ civitatem reædificant, et turribus eam muniunt,Rob. de Monte, appen. ad chron. Sig. p. 631.
[109]Marin. Sanut, p. 221.Bernard Thesaur.p. 768.Radulph Coggleshale, p. 249. Hoveden, p. 636. Radulph de Diceto, ut sup. p. 623. Matt. Par. p. 142. Italia sacra, tom. iii. p. 407.
[110]Tunc Julianus Dominus Sydonis vendidit Sydonem et Belfort Templariis,Marin. Sanut, cap. vi. p. 221.
[111]AtlasMarianus, p. 156; Siciliæ Antiq., tom. iii. col. 1000.
[112]Gallia christiana nova, tom. iii. col. 118; Probat. tom. ix. col. 1067, tom. x. col. 1292, tom. xi. col. 46;Roccus Pyrrhus, Sicil. Antiq. tom. iii. col. 1093, 4, 5, 6, 7, &c.
[113]Petrus Maria CampusHist. Placent. part ii. n. 28;Pauli M. Paciandide cultu S. Johannis Bapt. Antiq. p. 297.
[114]Description et delices d’Espagne, tom. iii. p. 259; Hist. Portugal,La Clede, tom. i. p. 200, 202, &c.; Hispania illustrata, tom. iii. p. 49.
[115]Annales Minorum, tom. v. p. 247; tom. vi. p. 211, 218; tom. viii. p. 26, 27; tom. ix. p. 130, 141.—Campomanes.
[116]MarcæHispanicæ, col. 1291, 1292, 1304. Gall. christ. nov. tom. i. col. 195.Mariana, de. reb. Hisp. lib. ii. cap. 23.
[117]Script. rer. Germ. tom. ii. col. 584. Annales Minorum, tom. vi. p. 5, 95, 177. Suevia and Vertenbergia sacra, p. 74. Annal. Bamb. p. 186. Notitiæ episcopatûs Middelb. p. 11. Scrip. de rebus Marchiæ Brandeburg, p. 13.Aventinusannal. lib. vii. cap. 1. n. 7. Gall. christ. nov. tom. viii. col. 1382; tom. i. col. 1129.
[118]Constantinopolis christiana, lib. iv. p. 157.
[119]Hist. de l’Eglise de Besancon, tom. ii. p. 397, 421, 450, 474, 445, 470, 509, &c.
[120]Hist. de l’Eglise de St. Etienne à Dijon, p. 133, 137, 205. Hist. de Bresse, tom. i. p. 52, 55, 84.
[121]Hist. gen. de Languedoc, liv. ii. p. 523; liv. xvi., p. 362; liv. xvii. p. 427; liv. xxii. p. 25, 226. Gall. christ. tom. vi. col. 727.MarteneThesaur. anecd. tom. i. col. 575.
[122]Gall. christ. nov. tom. i. p. 32; tom. iii. col. 333; tom. ii. col. 46, 47, and 72.La Martinieredict. geogr.Martene, ampl. collect. tom. vi. col. 226. Gloss. nov. tom. iii. col. 223.
[123]Histoire de la ville de Paris, tom. i. p. 174. Gall. christ. nov. tom. vii. col. 853.
[124]Annales Trevir. tom. ii. p. 91, 197, 479.Prodromushist. Trevir. p. 1077.Bertholethist. de Luxembourg, tom. v. p. 145.Joh. Bapt.Antiq. Flandriæ Gandavum, p. 24, 207. Antiq. Bredanæ, p. 12, 23.Austroburgus, p. 115.Aub MiræiDiplomat. tom. ii. p. 1165, &c.
[125]Dugd.Monast. Angl. vol. vi. part 2, p. 800 to 817. Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, tom. iii. p. 333 to 382. ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 279, 288, 291, 295, &c.
[126]ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 279, 288, 291, 297, &c.
[127]Nichols’hist. of Leicestershire.
[128]Clutterbuck’shist. Hertfordshire.Chauncey, antiq. Hert. ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 133, 134.Dodsworth, M. S. vol. xxxv.
[129]Morant’shist. Essex,Rymer.tom. iii. p. 290 to 294.
[130]Redditus omnium ecclesiarum et molendinorum et terrarum de bailliâ de Lincolnscire. Inquis. terrar. ut sup. fol. 41 b to 48 b and 49 a.Peck’sMS. in Museo Britannico, vol. iv. fol. 95 et seq.
[131]Peck’sMS. ut sup. fol. 95.
[132]Inquis. ut. sup. 58 b to 65 b.
[133]Inquis. terrar. ut sup. fol. 12 a to 23 a. Dodsworth MS. vol. xx. p. 65, 67, ex quodam rotulo tangente terras Templariorum. Rot. 42, 46, p. 964. Dugd. Baron. tom. i. p. 70.
[134]Monast. Angl. ut sup. p. 840.Hasted.hist. Kent.
[135]Ex cod. MS. in officio armorum, L. xvii. fol. 141 a. Calendarium Inquis. post mortem, p. 13. 18.
[136]Manning’sSurrey.Atkyn’sGloucestershire; and see the references in Tanner.Nash’sWorcestershire.
[137]Bridge’sNorthamptonshire, vol. ii. p. 100.
[138]Thoroton’sNottinghamshire.Burn and Nicholson’sWestmoreland.Worsley’sIsle of Wight.
[139]Habuerunt insuper Templarii in Christianitatenovem milliamaneriorum ... præter emolumenta et varios proventus ex fraternitatibus et prædicationibus provenientes, et per privilegia sua accrescentes.Mat. Par.p. 615, ed. Lond. 1640.
[140]Amplis autem possessionibus tam citra mare quam ultra ditati sunt in immensum, villas, civitates et oppida, ex quibus certam pecuniæ summam, pro defensione Terræ Sanctæ, summo eorum magistro cujus sedes principalis erat in Jerusalem, mittunt annuatim.—Jac. de Vitr.Hist. Hierosol. p. 1084.
[141]Masculum pullum, si natus sit super terram domus, vendere non possunt sine licentiâ fratrum. Si filiam habent, dare non possunt sine licentiâ fratrum. Inquisitio terrarum, ut supr. fol. 18 a.
[142]The Templars, by diverting the water, created a great nuisance. InA. D.1290, thePrior et fratres de Carmelo(the white friars) complained to the king in parliament of the putrid exhalations arising from the Fleet river, which were so powerful as to overcome all the frankincense burnt at their altar during divine service, and had occasioned the deaths of many of their brethren. They beg that the stench may be removed, lest they also should perish. The Friars preachers (black friars) and the bishop of Salisbury (whose house stood in Salisbury-court) made a similar complaint; as did also Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, who alleges that the Templars (ipsi de novo Templo) had turned off the water of the river to their mills at Castle Baignard.—Rot. Parl.vol. i. p. 60, 200.
[143]Ex cod. MS. in officio armorum, L. xvii. fol. 141 a.Dugd.Monast. Angl. ut sup. p. 838.Tanner, Notit. Monast.
[144]Dugd.Baronage. Monast. Angl. p. 800 to 844.
[145]Power to hold courts;
[146]to impose and levy fines and amerciaments upon their tenants;
[147]to buy and sell, or to hold a kind of market;
[148]to judge and punish their villains and vassals;
[149]to try thieves and malefactors belonging to their manors, and taken within the precincts thereof;
[150]to judge foreign thieves taken within the said manors, &c.
[151]Cart. 11. Hen. 3. M. 33.Dugd.Monast. p. 844.
[152]ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 54, 298, 574, 575.
[153]Page 431.
[154]13 Edward I.
[155]2 Inst. p. 432.
[156]2 Inst. p. 465.
[157]Stat. Westr. 2, cap. 43, 13 Ed. I.
[158]The title Master of the Temple was so generally applied to the superiors of the western provinces, that we find in the Greek of the lower empire, the words Τέμπλου Μαιστὼρ.Ducange.Gloss.
[159]Also summus magister, magister generalis.
[160]Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 335, 339, 340. Monast. Angl. p. 818.
[161]Concil. Mag. Brit. tom. ii. p. 355, 356.
[162]In cujus rei testimonium huic præsenti scripto indentato sigillum capituli nostri apposuimus.
[163]MS. apud Belvoir.Peck’sMS. in Museo Britannico, vol. iv. p. 65.
[164]Nicholl’sHist. Leicestershire, vol. iii. pl. cxxvii. fig. 947, p. 943; vol. ii. pl. v. fig. 13.
[165]Two of these visitors-general have been buried in the Temple Church.
[166]Rot. claus. 49. H. III. m. xi. d. ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 802.
[167]L’histoire des Cisteaux,Chrisost. Henriques, p. 479.
[168]Ricardus de Hastinges, Magister omnium militum et fratrum Templi qui sunt in Angliâ, salutem. Notum vobis facimus quod omnis controversia quæ fuit inter nos et monachos de Kirkested ... terminata et finita est assensu et consilio nostro et militum et fratrum, &c., anno ab incarnatione Domini 1155, 11 die kal. Feb. The archbishop of Canterbury, the papal legate, the bishop of Lincoln, and several abbots, are witnesses to this instrument.—LansdownMS. 207 E, fol. 467, p. 162, 163; see also p. 319, where he is mentioned as Master,A. D.1161.
[169]Et paulo post rex Angliæ fecit Henricum filium suum desponsare Margaritam filiam regis Franciæ, cum adhuc essent pueruli in cunis vagientes; videntibus et consentientibus Roberto de Pirou et Toster de Sancto Homero et Ricardo de Hastinges, Templariis, qui custodiebant præfata castella, et statim tradiderunt illa castella regi Angliæ, unde rex Franciæ plurimum iratus fugavit illos tres Templarios de regno Franciæ, quos rex Angliæ benigne suscipiens, multis ditavit honoribus.—Rog. Hoveden, script. post Bedam, p. 492.Guilielmi Neubrigiensishist. lib. ii. cap. 4, apudHearne.
[170]Life of Henry II. tom. iv. p. 203.
[171]Ib. tom. ii. p. 356. Hist. quad. p. 38.Hoveden, 453.Chron. Gervasii, p. 1386, apud X script.
[172]Ricardus Mallebeench, magister omnium pauperum militum et fratrum Templi Salomonis in Angliâ, &c. ... Confirmavimus pacem et concordiam quam Ricardus de Hastings fecit cum Waltero abbate de Kirkested.—LansdownMS. 207 E., fol. 467.
[173]Gaufridus, filius Stephani, militiæ Templi in AngliâMinister, assensu totius capituli nostri dedi, &c., totum illud tenementum in villâ de Scamtrun quod Emma uxor Walteri Camerarii tenet de domo nostrâ, &c. Ib. fol. 201.
[174]Post.
[175]The money is ordered to be paid “dilecto filio nostro Thesaurario domus militiæ Templi Londonien.” ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 442, 4, 5.WilkinsConcilia, tom. ii. p. 230.
[176]Matt. Par.p. 381.
[177]Matt. Par.p. 253, 645.
[178]Wilkins, Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ, tom. ii. p. 19, 26, 93, 239, 253, 272, 292.
[179]Bernard Thesaur.cap. 157, apudMuratoriscript. rer. Ital. p. 792.CottonMS., Nero E. vi. p. 60, fol. 466.
[180]Radulph de Diceto, ut sup. p. 626.Matt. Par.ad ann. 1185.
[181]Hovedenannal. apud rer. Angl. script. post Bedam, p. 636, 637.
[182]The above passage is almost literally translated from Abbot Bromton’s Chronicle. The Patriarch there says to the king, “Hactenus gloriose regnasti, sed amodo ipse te deseret quem tu deseruisti. Recole quæ dominus tibi contulit, et qualia illi reddidisti; quomodo regi Franciæ infidus fuisti, beatum Thomam occidisti, et nunc protectionem Christianorum abjecisti. Cumque ad hæc rex excandesceret, obtulit patriarcha caput suum et collum extensum, dicens, ‘Fac de me quod deThomáfecisti. Adeo libenter volo a te occidi in Anglia, sicut a Saracenis in Syria, quia tu omni Saraceno pejor es.’ Cui rex, ‘Si omnes homines mei unum corpus essent, unoque ore loquerentur, talia mihi dicere non auderent.’ Cui ille, ‘Non est mirum, quia tu et non te diligunt, prædam etiam et non hominem sequitur turba ista.’ ‘Recedere non possum, quia filii mei insurgerent in me absentem.’ Cui ille, ‘Nec mirum, quia de diabolo venerunt, et ad diabolum ibunt.’ Et sic demum patriarcha navem ascendens in Galliam reversus est.”—Chron. Joan. Bromton, abbatis Jornalensis, script. X. p. 1144, ad ann. 1185.
[183]Sed hæc omnia præfatus Patriarcha parum pendebat, sperabat enim quod esset reducturus secum ad defensionem Ierosolymitanæ terræ præfatum regem Angliæ, vel aliquem de filiis suis, vel aliquem virum magnæ auctoritatis; sed quia hoc esse non potuit, repatriaturus dolens et confusus a curiâ recessit.—Hovedenut sup. p. 630.
[184]Contin. Hist. Bell. Sacr.apudMartene, tom. v. col. 606. It appears fromMansithat this valuable old chronicle, formerly attributed to Hugh Plagon, is the original French work ofBernard the Treasurer.
[185]Quand le roi avoit offert sa corone au Temple Dominus, si avaloit uns degrès qui sont dehors le Temple, et entroit en son pales au Temple de Salomon, ou li Templiers manoient. La etoient les tables por mengier, ou le roi s’asseoit, et si baron et tuit cil qui mengier voloient.—Contin. bell. sacr. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 586.
[186]Contin. hist. ut sup., col. 593, 4.Bernard. Thesaur.apudMuratoriscript. rer. Ital., tom. vii. cap. 147, col. 782, cap. 148, col. 173. Assizes de Jerusalem, cap. 287, 288.Guill. Neubr.cap. 16.
[187]Vita et res gestæ Saladini byBohadin F. Sjeddadi, apudSchultens, ex. MS. Arab. Pref.
[188]Chron. terræ Sanctæ apudMartene, tom. v. col. 551. Hist. Hierosol. Gest. Dei, tom. i. pt. ii. p. 1150, 1.Geoffrey de Vinisauf.
[189]Contin. hist. bell. sacr. ut sup., col. 599.
[190]Muhammed F. Muhammed,N. Koreisg. Ispahan, apudSchultens, p. 18.
[191]Radulph Coggleshale, an eye-witness, apudMartene, tom. v. col. 553.
[192]Chron. Terræ Sanctæ, apudMartene, tom. v. col. 558 and 545. A most valuable history.
[193]Omad’eddin Kateb-Abou-hamed-Mohamed-Benhamed, one of Saladin’s secretaries. Extraits Arabes, parM. Michaud.
[194]Contin. hist. bell. sacr. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 608.Bernard. Thesaur.apudMuratoriscript. rer. Ital., cap. 46. col. 791.
[195]Bohadin, cap. 35.Abulfeda.Abulpharag.
[196]Omad’eddin Kateb, in his book calledFatah, celebrates the above exploits of Saladin. Extraits Arabes,Michaud.Radulph Coggleshale, Chron. Terr. Sanct. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 553 to 559.Bohadin, p. 70.Jac. de Vitr.cap. xciv.Guil. Neubr.apud Hearne, tom. i. lib. iii. cap. 17, 18.Chron. Gervasii, apud X. script. col. 1502.Abulfeda, cap. 27.Abulpharag.Chron. Syr. p. 399, 401, 402.Khondemir.Ben-Schunah.
[197]Geoffrey de VinisaufapudGale, script. Antiq. Anglic. p. 15, “O zelus fidei! O fervor animi!” says that admiring historian, cap. xv. p. 251.
[198]Geoffrey de Vinisauf, ut sup. cap. v. p. 251.
[199]Epistola Terrici Præceptoris Templi de captione terræ Jerosolymitanæ,Hovedenannal. apud rer. Angl. script. post Bedam, p. 636, 637.Chron. Gervas.ib. col. 1502.Radulph de Diceto, apud X. script. col. 635.
[200]Saladin’s letter to the caliphNassir Deldin-Illah Aboul Abbas Ahmed.—Michaud, Extraits Arabes.
[201]Les dames de Jerusalem firent prendrecuveset mettre en la place devant le monte Cauviaire, et emplird’eue froide, et firent lors filles entrer jusqu’au col, et couper lor treices et jeter les.—Contin. hist. bell. sacr. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 615.
[202]Chron. Terræ Sanctæ,Radulphi Coggeshale, apudMartene, tom. v. col. 572, 573; flentibus christianis, crines et vestes rumpentibus, pectora et capita tundentibus, says the worthy abbot.
[203]See ante, p. 6.
[204]Saladin ot mandé a Damas por euë rose assés por le Temple laver ... il avoit quatre chamiex ou cinq tous chargiés.—Contin. hist. Bell. Sacr. col. 621.
[205]Bohadin, cap. xxxvi., and the extracts fromAbulfeda, apudSchultens, cap. xxvii. p. 42, 43.Ib’n Alatsyr, Michaud, Extraits Arabes.
[206]Hoveden, annal. apud rer. Angl. script. post Bedam, p. 645, 646.
[207]BohadinapudSchultens, cap. xxxvi.
[208]Ibn-Alatsyr, hist. Arab. and theRaoudhatein, or “the two gardens.”Michaud, Extraits Arabes. Excerpta exAbulfedaapudSchultens, cap. xxvii. p. 43.WilkenComment. Abulfed. hist. p. 148.
[209]Omad’eddin Kateb.—Michaud, Extraits Arabes.
[210]Khotbeh, or sermon ofMohammed Ben Zeky.—Michaud, Extraits Arabes.
[211]See the account of this remarkable stone, ante p. 7, 8.
[212]Hist. Hierosol.Gesta Dei per Francos, tom. i. pt. ii. p. 1155.
[213]Hovedenut sup. p. 646.Schahab’eddinin the Raoudhatein.—Michaud.
[214]Jac. de Vitr.cap. xcv.Vinisauf, apud XV script. p. 257.Trivetad ann. 1188, apudHall, p. 93.
[215]Radulph de Dicetout sup. col. 642, 643.Matt. Par.ad ann. 1188.
[216]Radulph Coggleshale, p. 574. Hist. Hierosol. apud Gesta Dei, tom. i. pars 2, p. 1165.Radulph de Dicetout sup., col. 649.Vinisauf, cap. xxix. p. 270.
[217]DucangeGloss. tom. vi. p. 1036.
[218]Geoffrey de Vinisauf, apud XV script. cap. xxxv. p. 427.Rad. CoggleshaleapudMartene, tom. v. col. 566, 567.Bohadin, cap. l. to c.
[219]Bohadin, cap. v. vi.
[220]L’art de verif. tom. i. p. 297.
[221]Hist. de la maison de Sablé, liv. vi. chap. 5. p. 174, 175. Cotton MS. Nero, E. vi. p. 60. folio 466, where he is called Robert de Sambell. L’art de Verif. p. 347.
[222]Jac. de Vitr.cap. 65.
[223]Le roi de France ot le chastel d’Acre, ot le fist garnir et le roi d’Angleterre se herberja en la maison du Temple.—Contin. Hist. bell. sacr. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 634.
[224]Chron. Ottonisa S. Blazio, c. 36. apud Scriptores Italicos, tom. vi. col. 892.
[225]Contin. Hist. bell. sacr.apud Martene, tom. v. col. 633.Trivet, ad. ann. 1191.Chron. de S. Denis, lib. ii. cap. 7.Vinisauf, p. 328.
[226]Primariam aciem deducebant Templarii et ultimam Hospitalarii, quorum utrique strenue agentes magnarum virtutum prætendebant imaginem.—Vinisauf, cap. xii. p. 350.
[227]Ibi rex præordinaverat quod die sequenti primam aciem ipse deduceret, et quod Templarii extremæ agminis agerent custodiam.—Vinisauf, cap. xiv. p. 351.
[228]Deducendæ extremæ legioni præfuerant Templarii, qui tot equos eâ die Turcis irruentibus, a tergo amiserunt, quod fere desperati sunt.—Ib.
[229]Bohadin, cap. cxvi. p. 189.
[230]Singulis noctibus antequam dormituri cubarent, quidam ad hoc deputatus voce magnâ clamaret fortiter in medio exercitu dicens,Adjuva sepulchrum sanctum; ad hanc vocem clamabant universi eadem verba repetentes, et manus suas cum lacrymis uberrimis tendentes in cælum, Dei misericordiam postulantes et adjutorium.—Vinisauf, cap. xii. p. 351.
[231]Ibid. cap. xxxii. p. 369.
[232]Bedewinihorridi, fuligine obscuriores, pedites improbissimi, arcus gestantes cum pharetris, et ancilia rotunda, gens quidem acerrima et expedita.—Vinisauf, cap. xviii. p. 355.
[233]Vinisauf, cap. xxii. p. 360.Bohadin, cap. cxx.
[234]Expedite descenderunt (Templarii) ex equis suis, et dorsa singuli dorsis sociorum habentes hærentia, facie versâ in hostes, sese viriliter defendere cœperunt. Ibi videri fuit pugnam acerrimam, ictus validissimos, tinniunt galeæ a percutientium collisione gladiorum, igneæ exsiliunt scintillæ, crepitant arma tumultuantium, perstrepunt voces; Turci se viriliter ingerunt, Templarii strenuissime defendunt.—Ib. cap. xxx. p. 366, 367.
[235]Vinisauf, cap. xxxii. p. 369.
[236]Ib. cap. xxxvii. p. 392.Contin. Hist. Bell. Sacr.apudMartene, v. col. 638.
[237]Vinisauf, lib. v. cap. 1, p. 403. Ibid. lib. vi. cap. 2, p. 404.
[238]Ib. cap. iv. v. p. 406, 407, &c. &c.; cap. xi. p. 410; cap. xiv. p. 412. King Richard was the first to enter the town. Tunc rex per cocleam quandam, quam forte prospexerat in domibus Templariorum solus primus intravit villam.—Vinisauf, p. 413, 414.
[239]Contin. Hist. Bell. Sacr.apudMartene, tom. v. col. 641.
[240]Concessimus omne jus, omne dominium quod ad nos pertinet et pertineat, omnem potestatem, omnes libertates et liberas consuetudines quas regia potestas conferre potest.Cart. Ric.1. ann. 5, regni sui.
[241]Hispania Illustrata, tom. iii. p. 59.Hist. gen. de Languedoc, tom. iii. p. 409. Cotton, MS. Nero E. VI. 23. i.
[242]Castrum nostrum quod Peregrinorum dicitur, see the letter of the Grand MasterMatt. Par.p. 312, andJac. de Vitr.lib. iii. apud Gest. Dei, p. 1131.
[243]“Opus egregium,” saysJames of Vitry, “ubi tot et tantas effuderunt divitias, quod mirum est unde eas accipiunt.”—Hist. Orient.lib. iii. apud Gest. Dei, tom. i. pars 9, p. 1131.Martene, tom. iii. col. 288. Hist. capt. Damietæ, apud Hist. Angl. script. XV. p. 437, 438, where it is called Castrum Filii Dei.
[244]Pococke, Travels in the East, book i. chap. 15.
[245]Dufresne, Gloss.Archives d’Arles.Cotton, MS. Nero E. VI.
[246]Acta et FœderaRymeri, tom. i. p. 134, ad. ann. 1203, ed. 1704.
[247]Rigordin Gest. Philippi. ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 165, 173.
[248]Itinerarium regis Johannis, compiled from the grants and precepts of that monarch, byThomas Duff Hardy, published by the Record Commissioners.
[249]ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 170, ad. ann. 1213.
[250]Matt. Par.ad. ann. 1213, p. 234, 236, 237.Matt. Westr.p. 271, 2.Bib. Cotton.Nero C. 2. ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 172, 173. King John resided at Temple Ewell from the 7th to the 28th of May.
[251]Teste meipso apud Novum Templum London.... ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 105. ad. ann. 1214, ed. 1704.
[252]“Formam autem rei prolocutæ inter nos et ipsos, scriptam et sigillo nostro sigillatam ... in custodiam Templariorum commisimus.”—Literæ Regis sorori suæ Reginæ Berengariæ, ib. p. 194.
[253]Berengaria Dei gratiâ, quondam humilis Angliæ Regina. Omnibus, &c. salutem.... Hanc pecuniam solvet in domo Novi Templi London. Ib. p. 208, 209, ad. ann. 1215.
[254]Matt. Par.p. 253, ad. ann. 1215.
[255]Monast. Angl.vol. vi. part ii.
[256]Ital. et Raven. HistoriarumHieronymi Rubei, lib. vi. p. 380, 381, ad ann. 1217. ed. Ven. 1603.
[257]Jac. de Vitr.lib. iii. ad. ann. 1218. Gesta Dei, tom. i. 1, pars 2, p. 1133, 4, 5.
[258]Gall. Christ. nov.tom. ii. col. 714, tom. vii. col. 229.
[259]Jac. de Vitr.Hist. Orient. ut sup. p. 1138. Bernard Thesaur. apud Muratori, cap. 190 to 200.
[260]Epist. Magni Magistri Templi apud Matt. Par. p. 312, 313.
[261]Our historian, James de Vitry; he subsequently became one of the hostages. Contin. Hist. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 698.
[262]Matt. Par. ad ann. 1222, p. 314. See also another letter, p. 313.
[263]Actum London in domo Militiæ Templi, II. kal. Octob.Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 234, ad ann. 1219.
[264]Acta Rymeri, tom. i. ad ann. 1223, p. 258.
[265]Mittimus ad vos dilect. nobis in Christo, fratrem Alanum Marcell Magistrum militiæ Templi in Angliâ, &c. ... Teste meipso apud Novum Templum London coram Domino Cantuar—archiepiscopo, Huberto de Burgo justitiario et J. Bath—Sarum episcopis.Acta Rymeri, tom. i. p. 270, ad ann. 1224.
[266]Ib. p. 275.
[267]Ib. p. 311, 373, 380.
[268]Sanut, lib. iii. c. x. p. 210.
[269]Cotton, MS. Nero E. VI. p. 60. fol. 466. Nero E. VI. 23. i.
[270]Cecidit autem in illo infausto certamine illustris miles Templarius, Anglicus natione, Reginaldus de Argentomio, eâ die Balcanifer; ... indefessus vero vexillum sustinebat, donec tibiæ cum cruribus et manibus frangerentur. Solus quoque eorum Preceptor priusquam trucidaretur, sexdecim hostium ad inferos destinavit.—Matt. Par.p. 443, ad ann. 1237.
[271]AClerkenwelledomo sua, quæ est Londoniis, per medium civitatis, clypeis circiter triginta detectis, hastis elevatis, et prævio vexillo, versus pontem, ut ab omnibus videntibus, benedictionem obtinerent, perrexerunt eleganter. Fratres verò inclinatis capitibus, hinc et inde caputiis depositis, se omnium precibus commendaverunt.—Matt. Par.p. 443, 444.
[272]Et eodem anno (1239) ... passi sunt Judæi exterminium magnum et destructionem, eosdem arctante et incarcerante, et pecuniam ab eisdem extorquente Galfrido Templario, Regis speciali consiliario.—Matt. Par.p. 489, ad ann. 1239.
[273]In ipsâ irâ aufugavit fratrem Rogerum Templarium ab officio eleemosynariæ, et a curiâ jussit elongari.—Ib.
[274]Rymer, tom. i. p. 404.
[275]Post.
[276]Matt. Par.p. 615.
[277]MichaudExtraits Arabes, p. 549.
[278]Steph. Baluz. Miscell., lib. vi. p. 357.
[279]Marin Sanut, p. 217.
[280]Matt. Par.p. 631 to 633, ad ann. 1244. Huic scripto originali, quod erat hujus exemplum, appensa fuerunt duodecim sigilla.
[281]Matt. Par.p. 618-620.
[282]Cotton MS. Nero E. VI. p. 60, fol. 466, vir discretus et circumspectus; in negotiis quoque bellicis peritus.
[283]Hospitalarii et Templarii milites neophitos et manum armatam cum thesauro non modico illuc ad consolationem et auxilium ibi commorantium festinanter transmiserunt. Epist. Pap. Innocent IV.
[284]Matt. Par.p. 697, 698.
[285]Literæ Soldani Babyloniæ ad Papam missæ, a quodam Cardinali ex Arabico translatæ.—Matt. Par.p. 711.
[286]Ibid. p. 733.
[287]Matt. Par.p. 735.
[288]Ib. in additamentis, p. 168, 169.
[289]Quant les Templiers virent-ce, il se penserent que il seroient honniz se il lessoient le Compte d’Artois aler devant eulz; si ferirent des esperons qui plus plus, et qui miex miex, et chasserent les Turcs. Hist. de San Louis parJehan Sire de Joinville, p. 47.
[290]Nec evasit de totâ illâ gloriosâ militiâ nisi duo Templarii.—Matt. Par.ad ann. 1250. Chron.Nangis, p. 790.
[291]Et à celle bataille frere Guillaume le Mestre du Temple perdi l’un des yex, et l’autre avoit il perdu le jour de quaresm pernant, et en fu mort ledit seigneur, que Dieux absoille.—Joinville, p. 58.
[292]Et sachez que il avoit bien un journel de terre dariere les Templiers, qui estoit si chargé de pyles que les Sarrazins leur avoient lanciées, que il n’i paroit point de terre pour la grant foison de pyles.—Ib.
[293]Joinville, p. 95, 96.
[294]ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 474, ad ann. 1252.
[295]Matt. Par.ad ann. 1254, p. 899, 900.
[296]... Mandatum est Johanni de Eynfort, camerario regis London, quod sine dilatione capiat quatuor dolia boni vini, et ea liberet Johanni de Suwerk, ponenda in cellaria Novi Templi London. ad opus nuntiorum ipsorum.—ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 557, ad ann. 1255.
[297]Et mandatum est Ricardo de Muntfichet, custodi forestæ Regis Essex, quod eadem forestâ sine dilatione capiat X. damos, et eos usque ad Novum Templum London cariari faciat, liberandos prædicto Johanni, ad opus prædictorum nuntiorum.—Ib.
[298]ActaRymeri, p. 557, 558.
[299]MCCLVI. morut frère Renaut de Vichieres Maistre du Temple. Apres lui fu fait Maistre frère Thomas Berard.—Contin. hist. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 736.
[300]ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 698, 699, 700.
[301]ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 730, 878, 879, ad ann. 1261.
[302]Furent mors et pris, et perdirent les Templiers tot lor hernois, et le commandeor du Temple frère Matthieu le Sauvage.—Contin. hist. bell. sacr. ut sup. col. 737.Marin Sanut, cap. 6.
[303]Marin Sanut Torsell, lib. iii. pars 12, cap. 6, 7, 8. Contin. hist. bell. sacr. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 742. See also Abulfed. Hist. Arab. apud Wilkens, p. 223.De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 141.
[304]Michaud, Extraits Arabes, p. 668.
[305]De Vertot, liv. iii. Preuve. xiii. See also epist. ccccii. apudMartenethesaur. anec. tom. ii. col. 422.
[306]Facta est civitas tam famosa quasi solitudo deserti.—Marin Sanut, lib. iii. pars. 12, cap. 9.De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 143. Contin. Hist. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 743.Abulpharag.Chron. Syr. p. 546.Michaud, Extraits Arabes, p. 681.
[307]Marin Sanutut sup. cap. 11, 12. Contin. Hist. apudMartene, col. 745, 746.
[308]En testimoniaunce de la queu chose, a ceo testament avons fet mettre nostre sel, et avoms pries les honurables Bers frere Hue, Mestre de l’Hospital, et frere Thomas Berard, Mestre du Temple, ke a cest escrit meisent ausi lur seus, etc. ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 885, 886, ad ann. 1272.
[309]Trivet ad ann. 1272. Walsingham, p. 43. ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 889, ad ann. 1272, tom. ii. p. 2.
[310]Monast. Angl., vol. vi. part 2, p. 800-844.
[311]MCCLXXIII. a viii. jors d’Avri morut frere Thomas Berart, Maistre du Temple le jor de la notre dame de Mars, et fu fait Maistre a xiii. jors de May, frere Guillaume de Bieaujeu qui estoit outreCommendeordu Temple en Pouille, et alerent por lui querire frere Guillaume de Poucon, qui avait tenu lieu de Maistre, et frere Bertrand de Fox; et frere Gonfiere fu faitCommandeorgran tenant lieu de Maistre.—Contin. Hist. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 746, 747. This is the earliest instance I have met with of the application of the termCommanderto the high officers of the Temple.
[312]ActaRymeri, tom. ii. p. 34, ad ann. 1274.
[313]Contin. hist. bell. sacr. apudMartene, tom. v. col. 748.
[314]Life of Malek Mansour Kelaoun.Michaud, Extraits Arabes, p. 685, 686, 687.
[315]De excidio urbis Aconis apudMartenevet. script. tom. v. col. 767.
[316]The famous Abul-feda, prince of Hamah, surnamed Amod-ed-deen, (Pillar of Religion,) the great historian and astronomer, superintended the transportation of the military engines from Hasn-el-Akrah to St. Jean d’Acre.
[317]Ex ipsis fratrem monachum Gaudini elegerunt ministrum generalem. De excidio urbis Acconis apudMartene, tom. v. col. 782.
[318]Videntes pulchros Francorum filios ac filias, manus his injecerunt.—Abulfarag, Chron. Syr. p. 595. Maledicti Saraceni mulieres et pueros ad loca domus secretiora ex eisdem abusuri distrahere conabantur, turpibus ecclesiam obscœnitatibus cum nihil possent aliud maculantes. Quod videntes christiani, clausis portis, in perfidos viriliter irruerunt, et omnes a minimo usque ad maximum occiderunt, muros, turres, atque portas Templi munientes ad defensam.—De excid. Acconis ut sup. col. 782.Marin Sanutut sup. cap. xxii. p. 231.
[319]Per totam noctem illam, dum fideles vigilarent contra perfidorum astutiam, domum contra eos defensuri, fratrum adjutorio de thesauris quod potuit cum sacrosanctis reliquiis ecclesiæ Templi, ad mare salubriter deportavit. Inde quidem cum fratribus paucis auspicato remigio, in Cyprum cum cautelâ transfretavit.—De excid. Acconis, col. 782.
[320]De excidio urbis Acconis apudMartene, tom. v. col. 757.De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 162.Michaud, Extraits Arabes, p. 762, 808. Abulfarag. Chron. Syr. p. 595. Wilkens, Comment. Abulfed. Hist. p. 231-234.Marin. Sanut Torsell, lib. iii. pars 12, cap. 21.
[321]Raynald, tom. xiv. ad ann. 1298. Cotton MS. Nero E. vi. p. 60. fol. 466.
[322]Marin Sanut Torsell.lib. iii. pars. 13, cap. x. p. 242.De Guignes, Hist. des Huns, tom. iv. p. 184.
[323]ActaRymeri, tom. i. p. 575, 576-579, 582, tom. ii. p. 250.Martene, vet. script. tom. vii. col. 156.
[324]ActaRymeri, tom. ii. p. 683. ad ann. 1295.
[325]Chron.Dunmow. Annals ofSt. Augustin.Rapin.
[326]Ipse vero Rex et Petrus thesaurum ipsius episcopi, apud Novum Templum Londoniis reconditum, ceperunt, ad summam quinquaginta millia librarum argenti, præteraurum multum, jocalia et lapides preciosos.... Erant enim ambo præsentes, cum cistæ frangerentur, et adhuc non erat sepultum corpus patris sui.—Hemingford, p. 244.
[327]Chron.Triveti, ad ann. 1298.Hemingford, vol. i. p. 159.
[328]Dantestyles himil mal di Francia, Del. Purgat. cant. 20, 91.
[329]Questo Papa fue huomo molto cupido di moneta, e fue lusurioso, si dicea che tenea per amica la contessa di Paragordo, bellissima donna!!Villani, lib. ix. cap. 58. Fuit nimis cupiditatibus deditus.... Sanct. Ant. Flor. de Concil. Vien. tit. 21. sec. 3. Circa thesauros colligendos insudavit, saysKnightonapud X script. col. 2494.Fleuri, l. 92. p. 239.Chron. de Namgis, ad ann. 1305.
[330]Rainald.tom. xv. ad ann. 1306, n. 12.Fleuri, Hist. Eccles. tom. xix. p. 111.
[331]Bal. Pap. Aven.tom. ii. p. 176.
[332]Bal. Pap. Aven.tom. i. p. 99. Sexta Vita, Clem. V. apudBaluz, tom. i. col. 100.
[333]Hist. de la Condemnation des Templiers.—Dupuy, tom. ii. p. 309.
[334]MarianaHispan. Illustr. tom. iii. p. 152.Le GendreHist. de France, tom. ii. p. 499.
[335]ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 18. ad ann. 1307.
[336]Les forfaits pourquoi les Templiers furent ars et condamnez, pris et contre eux approuvez.Chron. S. Denis.Sexta vita, Clem. V.Dupuy, p. 24. edition de 1713.
[337]Liv. ii. chap. 106, chezDupuy.
[338]Sexta vita, Clem. V. col. 102.
[339]Ostendens duo ossa quod dicebat illa esse quæ ceciderunt de talis suis.Processus contra Templarios.RaynouardMonumens Historiques, p. 73, ed. 1813.
[340]In quibus tormentis dicebat se quatuor dentes perdidisse. Ib. p. 35.
[341]Fuit quæstionibus ponderibus appensis in genitalibus, et in aliis membris usque ad exanimationem. Ib.
[342]Tres des Chart.Templiers, cart. 3,n.20.
[343]Dat. apud Redyng, 4 die Decembris. Consimiles litteræ diriguntur Ferando regi Castillæ et Ligionis, consanguineo regis, domino Karolo, regi Siciliæ, et Jacobo regi Aragoniæ, amico Regis. ActaRymeri, tom. iii. ad ann. 1307, p. 35, 36.
[344]ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 37, ad ann. 1307.
[345]Dat. Pictavis 10, kal. Dec. ActaRymeri, tom. iii. ad ann. 1307, p. 30-32.
[346]ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 34, 35, ad ann. 1307.
[347]Ibid. p. 34, 35.
[348]Ibid. p. 45.
[349]Knyghton, apud X. script. col. 2494, 2531.
[350]ActaRymeri, tom. iii. p. 83.