{"product_id":"templars-network-and-trial-map","title":"The Templars: A Network, and the Trial That Tested It, 1119–1319 — Map \u0026 Timeline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Templars: A Network, and the Trial That Tested It\u003c\/strong\u003e is a large-format plate from Writesides of History, drawn from records rather than impressions. It maps eighteen places that mark two centuries of the Order of the Temple — its founding, its castles and financial houses, and the 1307–1314 trial whose confessions tracked the use of torture almost exactly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe map is built on a real cartographic base — Natural Earth 1:50m, public domain — and every dot carries a date and a source. From Jerusalem and Troyes, through the New Temple in London and the Paris house that held the French crown's treasury, out to the Syrian and Palestinian castles at Tortosa, Chastel Blanc, Safed and Acre, and on to Nicosia, Tomar, Miravet, Tarragona and Salamanca. The trial venues — Chinon, Poitiers, Vienne, Avignon and Mainz — carry a ring showing what the record says about that province: confessions extracted, a few confessions or mixed, or no confessions at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThat ring is the argument of the plate.\u003c\/strong\u003e A panel sets the confession rates side by side: 97 per cent at Paris in 1307, where torture was systematic; 5 per cent in the German lands, where practice varied by province; 3 per cent in England, only from 1310 and under pressure; and none at all in Aragon, Castile or Cyprus. A second panel reads the 1139 exemption \u003cem\u003eOmne datum optimum\u003c\/em\u003e four ways — answering to Rome alone, moving value across a frontier, keeping unusually rigorous accounts, and rotating brothers between houses. A third sets out the disagreement historians have not settled: Malcolm Barber's austere and genuinely pious Philip IV against Julien Théry's monarchy claiming the papacy's own power to detect and punish heresy. A fourth follows the two Iberian kingdoms that kept their Templars in plain sight, as the Order of Montesa and the Order of Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe plate states what it cannot show.\u003c\/strong\u003e A printed panel lists four explicit limits: a dot marks a fortress, house or council seat and not the reach of the order's authority; trial outcomes are what contemporaries recorded under investigation, not proof of what happened at any reception ceremony; dates marked 'c.' are the literature's own approximation, including the disputed date of Molay's execution; and no political border is drawn, because every border in the frame moved within these two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSources are named on the plate and include Malcolm Barber's \u003cem\u003eThe New Knighthood\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Trial of the Templars\u003c\/em\u003e, Barbara Frale on the Chinon Parchment, Alan Forey on the fall of the Templars in Aragon, Anne Gilmour-Bryson on the Cyprus trial, Sophia Menache on Clement V, Julien Théry, and the \u003cem\u003eProcessus Contra Templarios\u003c\/em\u003e facsimile — thirteen works in all, with a seventeen-entry chronology running from 1119 to 1319.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour files, one download:\u003c\/strong\u003e a print-ready A2 landscape vector PDF, an A4 landscape PDF for a classroom printer, a scalable SVG, and a 2400-pixel PNG. The PDF text is real text, so it stays searchable and selectable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e vector PDF (A2 and A4), SVG, PNG · \u003cstrong\u003eCoverage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 18 places, 17 dated entries, 13 sources\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Writesides of History","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57306308116745,"sku":"WSH-MAP-TEMPLARS","price":9.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0957\/7165\/6457\/files\/templars-network-and-trial-map-preview.png?v=1788785963","url":"https:\/\/shop.writesidesofhistory.com\/nl\/products\/templars-network-and-trial-map","provider":"Writesides of History","version":"1.0","type":"link"}