Was the Treasure of the Cathars Part of the Templar Treasure?
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By Sir Knight George L. Marshall, Jr., KCT, PGC
t has been postulated by some the soldiers of King Philip the Fair, the authors that the fabulous trea- headquarters of the Templar order in sure of the Templars could have Paris had been tipped off to the arincluded that of the heretical sect of rests and seizures which were about to Christians known as the Cathars. Al- happen. The treasures were loaded on though highly speculative as well as un- wagons and carts and carried overland proven, it does make an interesting and to the port of La Rochelle. There the wealth of the order was placed aboard intriguing story. Let’s begin by looking at the account Templar ships. The Templar fleet then surrounding the Templar treasure. Prior simply disappeared. Since then, the fate of the Templars to the arrest of the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307, by and the treasure aboard the ships has Photos of Montségur, the last refuge of the Cathars, were taken by the editor.
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