Were the Templars Heretics? Sir Richard Arcos (IV)

The Templars were accused of the following errors of practice:

1 They did not make charitable gifts as they ought to have.
Translation: they were miserly and would not give to every sturdy beggar who asked. Nor would they give to the King's pet charity - himself. It was widely believed that the Knights Templar were fantastically wealthy, since they acted as the Medieval equivalent of a Swiss bank. They weren't.

2. They did not practice hospitality.
See above. They were knights, not the YMCA!

3. They did not consider it a sin to acquire someone else's proprty by legal or illegal means.
The Knights, as good Catholics, considered robbery to be a sin. The King of France, on the other hand, thought it quite all right to illegally lay his greedy little mitts on the Templars' property under the cover of trumped-up allegations of heresy.

4. Perjury was not reckoned a sin if it was to gain boodle for the order.
Again, the King was imputing his own sordid views to the Knights. Funnily enough, the Templars were constantly broke!