ABSTRACT
The trouble with research on Italian templars is that enthusiastic amateurs have flooded the market with insufficiently researched and inaccurate articles and monographs. Concerning templars who left the order because of the improper acts required of them, he insisted that he had heard that many brothers had left for this reason. Given the impossibility of discussing the situation of Italian Templars for the entire period of their existence in Italy, focus will be laid entirely on what can be gleaned from testimony given between 1309 and 1311 in two hearings, Tuscany, and the Papal State and the Abruzzi. Unlike almost every other templar who testified in other trials, this man insisted that charity was not undertaken. One of the most valuable pieces of information to be found in this and similar testimony concerns the names and functions of senior Templar officials.
