"Pape Clément! ... Chevalier Guillaume! ... Roi Philippe! ... Avant un an, je vous cite à comparaître au tribunal de Dieu pour y recevoir votre juste châtiment! Maudits! Maudits! Tous maudits jusqu'à la treizième génération de vos races!"
Thus Jacques de Molay "cursed" on the 18th March 1314 the French King Phillipe IV le Bel, also known as le Roi de Fer, the Pope Clement V and the French Chancellor (ministry of Justice) Guillaume de Nogaret. Historically, all three had died in 1314, the last one being .
However , what if an epidemic had struck the Louvre in October 1314, killing all of the Roi de Fer's offspring, except his daughter Isabelle, who had maried Edward II, king of England, her son Edward (future Edward III), and his son Philippe V, who was in Lyon having a new pope elected.