Île aux Juifs

In the same year, 1314, Paris witnessed another diamond-tier execution.

On the 18th of March, Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned alive on a small island in the Seine called the Île aux Juifs, near the western tip of the Île de la Cité, close to where the Pont Neuf stands today.

The Templars had been one of the richest and most powerful organisations in Christendom, a military religious order that had fought in the Crusades and built up a vast network of properties and banking operations across Europe.

In 1307, Philip the Fair had ordered the arrest of all the Templars in France on charges of heresy, blasphemy and immorality.