The Knights Templar

30

Quoted in Read, op. cit., p.265.

31

Quoted in Read, op. cit., p.295.

32

Edward Burman, Supremely Abominable Crimes (Allison & Busby, 1994), p.266.

33

Burman, ibid., p.272.

34

Sir Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades,Vol. III, p.435– 6.

35

Runciman, ibid.,Vol. II, p.477.

36

Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, op. cit., p.57.

37

Barber, The New Knighthood, p.8.

38

Helen Nicholson, The Knights Templar: A New History (Sutton, 2001), pp.29–30.

39

Barber & Bate, op. cit., p.2.

40

e.g. Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, op. cit., pp.35–65, pp.81–100, in particular pp.62–5.

41

Baigent, Leigh & Lincoln, op. cit., pp.81–8.

42

They are also associated in some quarters with the Turin Shroud. See Keith Laidler, The Divine Deception (Headline, 2000), and Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, The Second Messiah (Random House, 1997). Interestingly, the first family to exhibit the supposed shroud was the de Charneys, related to the Preceptor of Normandy who died with de Molay at the stake.

43

‘Vatican File Shows Pope Pardoned Massacred Knights’, The Times, 30 March 2002.

44

Idries Shah, The Sufis (Octagon Press, 1964), p.226.