304: POLITICAL HERESY— THE STATE. tal, which was so displeasing to the pope that he ordered Burchard of Magdeburg to take the matter in hand and bring it to a more satisfactory conclusion. Burchard seems to have eagerly obeyed, but the results have not reached us. Archbishop Peter continued to hope for some adjustment, and when, after the Council of Vienne, he was forced to hand over the Templar property to the Hospitallers, he required the latter to execute an agreement to re- turn the manor of Topfstadt if the pope should restore the Order.* In Italy the Templars were not numerous, and the pope had better control over the machinery for their destruction. In Xa- ples the appeal of Edward II. was in vain. The Angevine dynasty was too closely allied to the papacy to hesitate, and when a copy of the bull Pastorali8 jprceeminentice, of November 21, 1307, was addressed to Kobert, Duke of Calabria, son of Charles II., there was no hesitation in obedience. Orders were speedily sent out to all the provinces under the Neapolitan crown to arrest the Tem- plars and sequestrate their property. Philip, Duke of Achaia and Romania, the voungest son of Charles, was forthwith commanded to carry out the papal instructions in all the possessions in the Levant. January 3, 1308, the officials in Provence and Forcal- quier were instructed to make the seizure January 23. The Order was numerous in those districts, but the members must have mostly fled, for only forty-eight were arrested, who are said to have been tried and executed, but a document of 1318 shows that Albert de Blacas, Preceptor of Aix and St. Maurice, who had been impris- oned in 1308, was then still enjoying the Commandery of St. Maurice, with consent of the Hospitallers. The Templar mova- bles were divided between the pope and king, and the landed pos- sessions were made over to the Hospital. In the kingdom of Na- ples itself, some fragmentary reports of the papal commission sent
- Harduin. VII. 1353.— Regest. Clement. PP. V. T. IV. pp 3-4 ; T. V. p. 272.
— Du Pay, pp. 62-3, 130-1.— Schmidt, Pabstliche Urkunden, p. 77.— Raynald. ann. 1310, No. 40. — Raynouard, pp. 127, 270.— Jo. Latomi Cat. Arcbiepp. Moguntt. (Menken. III. 526).— H. Mutii Chron. Lib. xxn. ann. 1311.— Wilcke, II. 243, 246, 325, 339.— Schottmiiller, I. 445-6. Even Raynaldus (ann. 1307, No. 12) alludes to the incombustibility of the Templars' crosses as an evidence in their favor.
