His uncle, the Count of Valois, sees an opportunity to break his arch rival Enguerrand Marigny who was left in charge of the treasury.

Louis wants an annulment from Marguerite so he can marry Princess Clemence of Hungary, but the cardinals are being difficult, and no one seems to be able to come up with enough bribes to determine who will be the next Pope. Meanwhile, he has people trying to settle the question of the next Pope. Her lustful dalliance not only cost her the chance to be Queen of France, but also cost her her life. ”He was a king and knew not how to reign he was a man and knew not how to live he was married and had no wife.”ĭon’t be fooled by the pius appearance of Marguerite here. For now they are locked up in a drafty castle with the hope that with a poor diet and poor conditions they will succumb to disease. The brothers were broken on the rack and disposed of, but the issue of his wife and his sister-in-law remained a nagging problem. Dire circumstances for a new king who also is still stinging from the recent adulterous scandal involving his wife Marguerite, his sister-in-law Blanche, and two handsome brothers. He also didn’t like the idea of the Templars attempting to form their own country on the Island of Cyprus with uncertain loyalty to the French crown.Įven with the confiscation of Templar money and assets, the son of Philip and the heir apparent, Louis X, found the treasury empty. Philip borrowed a lot of money from the Templars but needed much more.

Philip may have been known as The Fair, but in the case of the Templars it would be more accurate to call him Philip the Welcher. The curse that was cast upon him by the Templar Grand Master Jacques de Molay, while on his way to being burned at the stake, was fulfilled.

Philip IV, or as he is also known Philip the Fair, is dead. ”When one has governed men for a long time, when one has thought that one has acted for the best, when one knows the pains the task has entailed, and then suddenly sees that one has never been either loved or understood, but merely submitted to, then one is overwhelmed with bitterness, and wonders whether one could not have found some better way of spending one’s life.”

The accursed kings