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approval of Clement V; at its termination, the Pope emitted the bull Rex Gloriae, in April of
1311, where are summarized the conclusions: in that bull, res visenda, is ordained that all the
bulls of Boniface VII against Philip IV be burnt in public; Philip IV was innocent and «faithful
catholic»; also they would be innocent of the assault of Anagni Nogaret, Sciarra, and Charles;
Boniface VIII, in other hand, was not declared heretic but guilty of obstinatio extrema. And
we’ll add that in the course of his pontificate ended seizing from the major part of the
accumulated gold by the Benedictine Orders, feigning always an insatiable ambition, and that
he fell on deaf ears at the claims of the Lombard bankers, victims of a law of expropriation that
confiscated their properties in France.
It is evident, then, that Clement V carried out all the objectives of his mission or he
disposed the juridical means to accomplish them. Precisely in an interview celebrated in
Poitiers, in 1306, with Philip the Fair, both Initiates agreed in the way to dissolve the Order of
the Temple: for Clement V, Lord of the Dog, that represented the eighth target of the mission
and would constitute the most important strategic act of his pontificate; for Philip IV, that
meant the neutralization of the «second tactic line» of the Enemy, just as I explained the
thirtieth day. Naturally, it would not be understood why a powerful King as Philip VI, and a
Pope that was the General Superior of the Order, had to effectuate a secret plan to extinguish
it, if it is not realized the effort to imagine in what consisted effectively the Order of the
Temple in the XIV century, the magnitude of its economic, financial and military might. But, if
it is meditated about it, would result clear that the Order was in conditions to present many
type of answers, military or economic, that could put in serious difficulties to Philip IV. We
must have present that the plans of the White Fraternity were supported, in great measure, in
this Order, and that the Strategy of the Circulus Domini Canis demanded its destruction to
assure the failure of those plans: so, the hit, would have to be devastating and surprising.
The Order, indeed, possessed more than 90.000 patronages distributed in the countries
that actually are called Portugal, Normandy, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany,
Hungary, Austria, Italy and England. In the France of the beginnings of the XIV century,
included Auvergne, Provence, Normandy, Aquitane, the County of Burgandy, etc., the most
extensive estates were located, existed approximately 10.000 templar properties: from them,
3.000 were patronages each one of them averaged 1.000 hectares. In total, those properties
amounted 3.500.000 hectares, what represented the 10% of the total surface of France. But
this percentage, including the rivers, mountains, forests, and every kind of terrain useless for
the cultivation, constituted a 10% of the best land, chosen along two centuries with the
patience of a Benedictine monk and obtained through donations collected by the Church. And
there was more: those patronages, which were composed by thousands of farms in full
agricultural exploitation, were free of every type of taxes because the Order depended
directly from the Pope, privilege that even Boniface VIII, converted them into inviolable
properties for any temporal Lord. To change this situation was, precisely, one of the Strategic
objectives of Philip the Fair, which took him to a confrontation with Boniface VIII and to
oppose the national Civil Law against the Canon Law.
But it was not only about taxes: the Templars, since the advent of Philip IV, came
developing a plan destined to break the economy of the Kingdom through the impoverishment
of the feudal nobility and the depopulation of the field. The foodstuff offered in the cities at
dumping prices or just gifted in the monasteries, turned purposeless any attempt for a state

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