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OFH Special Presentation - What Should We Believe About the Knights Templar? (Part I)

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The Expulsion of the Jews

Philip accused the pope of a number of scandalous crimes including fortune telling, sodomy and having an indecent relationship with a demon who lived inside his ring. The claims were generally unsupported by any kind of evidence, but they were enough to galvanize the pope's enemies against him. Eventually, things got so bad for boniface that he literally had to run for his life. Another notable instance where the king of france accused his enemies of crazy stuff came in 13 o six when philip expelled and estimated a hundred thousand jews from france. Philip was presenting himself as a defender of the true faith in the face of a dangerous threat.

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