Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars released

The Vatican's release of a historic document revealing the 14th Century trial against the Knights Templars sheds new light on books such as the Da Vinci Code. Large parts of the Templars' history has been unequivocally determined.

In the 14th-Century document, known as the Parchment of Chinon, Pope Clement V absolves the Templars of any wrongdoing. It is perhaps the most important Papal absolution that the world never knew about until a researcher, Barbara Frale stumbled on the document which had been miscategorized, in 2002.

The parchment, which has been released in its entirety last month, is particularly spectacular because it gives a detailed account of the Templar's role in history. Turns out some popular fiction and history writers, including the Da Vinci Code's author David Brown, are way off track. Another writer is so close that it has led to speculation whether he's an 'insider'. A rise of Neo Templarism might be on the cards...

Even though the document is not as important as for instance the Holy Grail, readers of the Da Vinci Code will certainly get some answers about why and how the Templars all of a sudden are left without a trace from the annals of history.

To give you a quick bird's eye view of the setting; the Knights Templar exited human history on a sour note. They were slaughtered by King Philip of France after having been accused of heresy.

The king of France had money troubles and simply butchered them shortly after they had received absolution of heresy by the Pope. Dan Brown describes this event in exactly the opposite way in the Da Vinci code. He says that the Vatican gave the orders for the destruction of the Templars and that the King of France played along.

Frale found the document after it had been overlooked by previous historians. She said that the last time that a thorough check through had occurred in the Vatican's Secret Archives at the beginning of the 20st century and that a catalog entry in 1628 was very vague.

"Unfortunately, there was an archiving error, an error in how the document was described," the Associated Press quoted her as saying. "More than an error, it was a little sketchy." Makes you wonder whether someone had tried to leave a message?

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