This Year: 1314--The Curse of Jacques de Molay, The Tour de Neslè Scandal and More!

Hello and Welcome to This Year, a YouTube and Blog series with interesting information about each year between 1300 and 2020.

1314

This year, in 1314, in France, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, 

was killed, and was said to have cursed the Pope and the King while he was being burned.  

A month later, the Pope, Clement V, died

 and lightning struck the Church where his body lay, burning it.   

The Tour de Nesle scandal rocked the French monarchy.  

On a visit, Philip IV's daughter, Isabella, Queen of England, 

accused her sisters-in-law of adulterous affairs.  

The women were imprisoned 

and their paramours were tortured and executed.  

A few months later, the King, Philip IV, 

died of a stroke while hunting.  

Robert the Bruce 

won back Scotland’s independence at the Battle of Bannockburn, 

Exeter College was founded at Oxford,

 and the capital of Norway was moved from Bergen to Oslo.

This has been This Year: 1314.

Credits:

Anieto2k, Lightning at the Church,
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/40/fe/70/40fe708070122acdd77817ee64fd31e1.jpg

Breaking Wheel, 
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*gROpbLZMfAAG9d95DzwOnA.jpeg

Burning of Jacques de Molay
http://www.cathar.info/cathar_inquisition.htm

Jacques de Molay, 19th Century
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JacquesdeMolay.jpg

Map of Norway, Goway.com
https://www.goway.com/media/uploads/maps/europe/norway_map.jpg

Marshall, H. E. Bruce Brought his Axe Crashing Down Upon the Head of Bohun, 1907
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_brought_his_axe_crashing_down_upon_the_head_of_Bohun.jpg

Painting of Philip IV, the Fair
http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/File:Philippe_IV_Le_Bel.jpg

Painting of Queen Isabella, 19th century
https://cdn2.hercampus.com/styles/full_width_embed/s3/body-images/2018/03/09/Isabella_of_France_(litograph).jpg

Painting of Robert the Bruce
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoberttheBruce.jpg

Peyson, Frèdèric, Marguerite de Bourgogne et Buridan dans la prison de la Tour de Nesle, 1844
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Peyson-Buridan.JPG

Phoebus, Gaston, Livre de la Chaisse,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MedHartHunt.jpg

Portraits of Blanche, Margaret and Joan, "The Queens of the Tour de Nesle Affair"
https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/france/tour-de-nesle-affair/

Schola Antiqua, Gradual Chant "Universi qui te expectant," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gradual_chant_-_Universi_qui_te_expectant.ogg.

Serrur, Henri Auguste Calixte Cèsar, Portrait of Pope Clement V (19th Century)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papa_Clemens_Quintus.jpg

Simon Q, "Exeter College Quad,"
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exeter_College_Quad.jpg

Tour de Neslè
https://i0.wp.com/plume-dhistoire.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/nesles-facebook.png?fit=1200%2C630