History of Knights Templar: Part V

The Last Grand Master As for the fate of the imprisoned Templars in France (there were none in prison anywhere else by the time of the Council of Vienne), the Pope ordered that those who had confessed and been absolved should be allowed to live on former Templar lands, with a pension drawn from the revenues of that land. As Edward Burman notes, there are records - for example at Mas Deu in the Roussillon …

…ere kept? On this line of reasoning, there was no one 'idol', and most, if not all, of the descriptions given by Templars under interrogation are correct, but were deliberately twisted by their prosecutors. Ironically, this supports the idea that the Templars did involve heads - or head-shaped images - in some of their ceremonies, maybe even those of (or more accurately those believed to be of) Hugues de Payens and John the Baptist.