aanonymouse4o: The Chateau of Roissy was first built by the Order of The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Chr
aanonymouse4o: The Chateau of Roissy was first built by the Order of The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon otherwise known as the Templars. It was built as a Priory to collect the rents of surrounding Templar properties and to supply food and wine to the main Temple in Paris. It was built by forced peasant labour and by slaves brought from the Levant, where the Templers traded in Moslem slaves. It was whispered that both slaves and the daughters of recalcitrant peasants suffered horribly in the hidden tunnels, rooms and passages under the Chateau In 1312, Pope Clement, at King Philip IV of France’s command, dissolved the Order under charges of heresy. The investigations were carried out by Dominicans and their sub-order, The Holy Congregation of Moral Discipline. The Congregation was formed of monks and lay-brothers who performed the actual physical maltreatment of the suspects as they were questioned. After the disbanding of the Templers, the Holy Congregation was rewarded with some of the Templar properties, including the Chateau of Roissy. The Holy Congregation used the Chateau as their Chapter House in Northern France because it was close to the King, his Court, and University at Paris.Upset at losing property to their former sub-order, the Dominicans launched an investigation of the Holy Congregation and a generation after the suppression of the Templers, the Congregation shared their fate. Readers may skip this paragraph.The Holy Congregation of Discipline, sometimes Moral Discipline had first worked for the Holy Office of Inquisition and the Dominicans in the suppression of the Cathars in Southern France. It was then they acquired their Southern Chapter House at Carcassonne. During long hours of questioning and torture the Holy Congregation had acquired some Cathar doctrine but in a twisted and unique form. They came to believe that human bodies were inherently sinful and could only be purified by pain. Women attracted men to sin by their beauty and submission. Men attracted women by the strength and mastery. Resisting lust was futile, and the only way to salvation was to sin and be punished. Women would be punished in this world by men, and men would be punished in the next. Rumours of orgies and torture at Carcassonne and Roissy led to the Congregation’s downfall at the hands of the envious Dominicans. -- source link