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Philip constructed a plan to have the Templars arrested and their wealth confiscated.

He once again used his disreputable agents Guillaume de Nogaret and Enguerrand de Marigny to invent a list of charges of heresy and round up the usual witnesses.

The charges were not coincidentally quite similar to the charges earlier directed against the uncooperative and ill-fated Pope Boniface VIII.