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Jacques de Molay
(est. 1244-5/1249-50 - 18 March 1314)
A minor Frankish noble, served as the 23rd and officially last Grand Master of the Knights Templar. He is probably the best known Templar besides the order's founder and first grand master, Hugues de Payns.
Upon his election before 20 April 1292, he promised to reform the order and adjust it to the present situation in the Middle East. With no crusader states left to protect together with other problems surfacing, the order's right to exist was put into question. Jacques de Molay failed to successfully lead the Templars through the inquisitions made against them and was burnt at the stake on an island in the river Seine in Paris, Ile de la Cité, on 18 March 1314.
The execution was ordered by Philippe le Bel (Philip the Fair) after Jacques retracted all of his previous confessions, which outraged the French king. Nothing is known of about two thirds of his life.
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