The 700 anniversary of government of Pope Clement V on Rhodes island

    Sovereign Military Order of Malta 2007

    In issue: Stamp(s): 1   

    Printing: offset on fluorescent paper

  • Perforation type: 13 ¼x14

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    3.2 euros. On the stamp - the antique engraving described in release of 1993.

    The stamp is issued with the label with the name of event.

     

     

    Additional:

    *Pope Clement V (About 1264 – April 20, 1314), born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled de Gouth and de Goth), was Pope from 1305 to his death. He is memorable in history for suppressing the order of the Templars, and as the Pope who moved the Roman Curia to Avignon - although, as a matter of fact, he moved the Roman Curia to Carpentras - in 1309, after staying four years in Poitiers.

    On October 13, 1307, came the arrest of hundreds of the Knights Templar in France, an action apparently financially motivated and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V's coronation, the King had charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently.