The Crusades did not end at Acre in 1291. They ended in 1314, when Philip IV of France, unable to repay his debt to the Knights Templar, had the Order tried on fabricated charges and its last Grand Master burned. This fully sourced investigation traces the trial, the torture, and the collapse of medieval Europe's most powerful financial network.
Histories and Castles publishes The Last Crusade: The Trial and Fall of the Knights Templar, a fully sourced digital investigation into the destructio ...