Encyclopedia > Geoffrey de Charney

Article Content

Geoffrey de Charney

Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar, burned alive along with Jacques de Molay in 1314. De Charney's nephew's widow first put the Shroud of Turin on diplay later in the 14th century.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Jordanes

... Christian and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of the Goths), "De breviatione chronicorum" ...