“On the night before Isabella arrived in Paris, King Philip and his court had witnessed the burning of her godfather, Jaques de Molay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar.” Pg 98
I had no idea the last Grand Master—the man Isabella‘s father unjustly charged with treason so he could take the Order‘s assets—was also her godfather.
“These happy and auspicious plans were overshadowed in France by the mass arrest of about two thousand Knights Templar, on the King‘s orders, on 13 October. …For the next seven years, the Templars in France would be…interrogated, tortured, tried, and sometimes burned at the stake. Philip‘s treatment of the Templars paved the way for their condemnation by the Pope and the dissolution of the Order.” Pg 13-14
“…in 1309, under pressure from Philip, Clement moved the seat of the papacy from Rome to Avignon in southern France, where it was to remain for nearly seventy years, in thrall to the kings of France.” Pg 11
I picked up a couple books by Alison Weir at the bargain store last week. It seemed best to start here since I just read _England in the Age of Chivalry . . . And Awful Diseases_ by Ed West: it offers a very, very brief history of England around the time of Isabella.
pickThis book is set in the late 1400‘s in Spain and is about the expulsion of Jews. This is a good read that is best suited for older elementary readers. After reading I researched to find that several figures in the book are based on real figures from history.
"But there was no escaping his tormenters, who spread his legs and inserted 'a long horn into his fundament as deep as they might, and took a spit of burning copper, and put it through a horn into his body, and oft-times rolled therewith his bowels, and so they killed their lord, and nothing was perceived."
?Gee. One more example of how Medieval people were horrific in their methods. Some historians believe Edward II escaped. I sure do hope so.
Woke up with a really painful headache borderline migraine so I don‘t think I‘ll get much reading done, but I‘ll get TONS of #QueenIsabella snuggles
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