Knights Templar trial papers : 1308 parchment titled Processus Contra Templarios (Trial against the Templars)- The Vatican publishes a long-misplaced; 700-year-old papal report on the medieval holy warriors. It is a 1308 parchment titled Processus Contra Templarios (Trial against the Knights Templar); which chronicles the order's sordid endgame: the accusations of heresy; the Templars' defense; and Pope Clement V's absolution of the order; before he did an about-face and eliminated it. The document misplaced in Vatican's archives until 2001; is reportedly the official transcript of that trial and Clement's 1308 verdict; which found the Templars to be immoral but not heretical. The Pope allegedly intended to reform them. But under continued pressure from his French protector; Clement instead disbanded them in 1312 and gave most of their riches to a rival military order.Vatican; 2007.