Author: Frers, Ernesto

When the Vatican condemned the Order of the Temple in 1312, many of those who escaped took to the sea with the objective of taking revenge on the Church. Recent discoveries confirm that missing ships of the Templar fleet reappeared on the high seas to menace the Church's maritime commerce. Some unaffiliated pirates, admirers of the Templar egalitarian ideals, formed their own secret societies, and with the Templars and Freemasons became part of the ferment that led to independence movements in France and America. 192 pp.