Geoffroi de Charney

Geoffroi de Charney,[a] also known as Guy d'Auvergne, (died 11 or 18 March 1314) was preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar.

He was accepted into the Order of Knights Templar at a young age by Amaury de la Roche, Preceptor of France.

On 22 November 1307 Clement V, under pressure from the King, issued the papal decree Pastoralis praceminentiae that ordered all Christian monarchs to arrest any Templars and confiscate their lands in the name of the Pope and the Church.

[5] On 12 August 1308, the charges were increased, with one specifically stating that the Templars worshipped an idol made of a cat and a head with three faces.

The King was furious and they were both pronounced relapsed heretics to be burned without a further hearing; the facts were notorious and no formal judgment by the papal commission need be waited for.

That same day, by sunset, a pile was erected on a small island in the Seine, the Ile des Juifs, near the palace garden.

[11] Author Malcolm Barber has researched this legend and concluded that it originates from La Chronique métrique attribuée à Geffroi de Paris (ed.

Geoffrey of Paris was "apparently an eye-witness, who describes Molay as showing no sign of fear and, significantly, as telling those present that God would avenge their deaths".

The beaucéant (standard) was half white and half black to which a red cross was added by Eugenius III with its legend Non Nobis Domine , from first verse of Psalm 115. [ 1 ]
Templars being burned at the stake.
The Burning of the Templars at Paris . Original owned by the British Library