B ased by 1118 by nine knights champenois and Burgundian and organized, in 1128 , by the Council of Troyes, the Order of Temple take its name of its first establishment, placed on Salomon's temple. Including knights, sergeants and placed chaplains under the authority of an elected Grand Master, the Templar contribute to the defense of the Latin States of Palestine by their active presence on battlefields or by the construction of fortresses of which the most famous is Krak of the knights. The generosity of the pilgrims puts them in the head of a considerable fortune and the Order is one of the greatest banks of the West, in the point that the king of France confides its treasure. But the end of crusades, in the XIII th century, increases only an already notorious indiscipline. The opposition of the Grand Master Jacques de Molay in any reform upsets the pope Clément V and the king of France Philippe IV. If the first does not dare to intervene, the second doesn't hesitates to decide, on August 24, 1307, the arrest of the Templars and do it on October 13, no one warned them. Following very complex royal and papal procedures 63 knights are burned on March 18, 1310, Order is abolished by the pope on March 22, 1312 and, finally, Jacques de Molay is burned on March 18, 1314. The possessions of the Order, among which appeared carefully inventoried, the treasure kept in the Temple of Paris, had been given back to the Order of St's jeans of Jerusalem.