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''Ad providam'' was the name of a Papal Bull issued by
''Ad providam'' was the name of a Papal Bull issued by Pope Clement V
Pope Clement V ( la, Clemens Quintus; c. 1264 – 20 April 1314), born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled ''de Guoth'' and ''de Goth''), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 June 1305 to his de ...
in 1312. It built on a previous bull, '' Vox in excelso'', which had disbanded the order of the Knights Templar. ''Ad providam'' essentially handed over all Templar assets to the Hospitallers
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller (), was a medieval and early modern Catholic Church, Catholic Military ord ...
(modern-day Sovereign Military Order of Malta
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta ( it, Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme, di Rodi e di Malta; ...
), with the exception of some resources which were left to provide pensions to some Templars who had escaped execution and converted to a monastic life.Malcolm Barber, ''The Trial of the Templars''. Cambridge University Press, 1978.
See also
*List of papal bulls
This is an incomplete list of papal bulls, listed by the year in which each was issued.
The decrees of some papal bulls were often tied to the circumstances of time and place, and may have been adjusted, attenuated, or abrogated by subsequent pop ...
References
1312 works 14th-century papal bulls Documents of Pope Clement V Knights Templar Latin texts {{RC-document-stub