Geoffroy de Charnay

Geoffroy de Charnay (also: Geoffroy de Charney ; * around 1251; † March 18, 1314 in Paris ) was a Knight of the Templar Order and was executed in 1314 together with Jacques de Molay .

He came from a noble family and was accepted into the Knights Templar when he was about 18 years old.

In 1283 he became the preceptor of Fresnes, 1294 of Villemoisson, 1295 of Fretay and 1307 of Normandy . In this case, a preceptor is not a teacher, but a person primarily responsible.

When the arrests of the Knights Templar were carried out in 1307 , Geoffroy de Charnay was also arrested. In particular, the French King Philip the Fair and Pope Clement V accused the Templars of heresy and sodomy in the Templar trial .

Geoffroy de Charney and Jacques de Molay were tortured and testified that the allegations against the Order were true. Based on these confessions, the sentence was only life imprisonment. Geoffroy de Charnay and Jacques de Molay opposed this judgment. They revoked their confessions, saying that the allegations against the Order were false and that the Order was innocent. Both were declared repeat offenders who were killed under the law of the time.

On the evening of March 18, 1314, Geoffroy de Charnay and Jacques de Molay were slowly burned at the stake on the Place Dauphine .

According to the genealogical research of Noel Currer-Briggs , the name-like Geoffroy de Charny , the first verifiable owner of the Turin Shroud , was his nephew.

Web links

• Espaces de Discussions ( Memento of December 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (French)