Now this isn't in the whole "Templars went underground and survive to this very day" conspiracy sort of thing. What I mean is, what would happen if Pope Clement V ignored King Philip IV of France and chose NOT to suppress, arrest, exterminate and disband the Order of the Temple aka the Knights Templar from 1307 to 1312?
How would the Knights Templar continue after 1307? Would it simply be allowed to continue for another couple of years before something else popped up to convince the Pope to disband them? Would they flourish? Or would they continue into the modern day and have a similar role to what the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights have now?