Explanation: In an attempt to discredit the Catholic knightly order of the Templars and justify seizing their vast wealth, the king of France, Philip IV, accused them of, amongst other things, homosexual orgies as a form of initiation. This is by almost all accounts baseless, but autocrats making up ridiculous charges to justify destroying their political enemies is as old as time.
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