ABSTRACT
In 1235, King Henry III of England ordered payment of 200 pounds sterling from his treasury to the London Temple over a four-year period. In turn, the London Temple would pay 800 livres tournois to the Paris Temple, whose duty it was to transfer this amount to the count of La Marche over a five-year period. These transactions were ordered to comply with the terms of the truce signed between France and England, whereby the latter country would keep the island of Oléron, also claimed by the count of La Marche, in exchange for these payments. The king of England would assign certain royal revenues in pledge for these money transfers, and the English Templar Master and his brethren in France guaranteed that these sums would be paid to the count.1
