Crusaders AD 2012

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

in a way..

The Church did grant The Templars exoneration from all forms of payment to the Church (even the obligatory Tithing), at their inception, in return for doing the Church's land grabbing in The Holy Lands.
The real problems arouse when the Church wanted to get its (fair share) hands on the huge amount of wealth amassed by the Templars in their trophy runs

Not so much the church, but the french King, who also was massivly indebted to the Templars and who had the Pope in his pockets.