Part 1, A Curse; Chapter's 4-6 Summary and Analysis

In the next three chapter's of Part One, we see the sentence being passed on the Grand Master of the Templars, the impact this has in the high courts of King Philip the fair, and also the ongoing adultery of Queen Marguerite (King Philip's daughter-in-law).

At the steps of Notre Dame, the Grand Master Jacques de Molay plus three other senior members of the Templar Order in France are brought before a team of Cardinal Legates (supreme judges of the Papacy), the Archbishop of France, and the Grand Inquisitor of France. In front of the gathered spectators, a crowd of monks and a contingent of guards the Archbishop reads the accusations (that the Templar's routinely practiced acts of blasphemy, heresy and perversion). The sentence is read and the verdict is that they Templar...