A friend of mine told me today that the reason Friday the 13th is considered especially unlucky (as opposed to all the other 13ths) is because it was on a Friday the 13th that the first of the Knights Templar were burned for heresy. I was wondering if that was true or not.

much older, 13 witches in a coven, 13 at the last supper--the crucifiction was on friday,ect...

http://www.snopes.com/luck/friday13.asp

I dont think witches and warlocks were considered heretics before the Knights Templar.

A friend of mine told me today that the reason Friday the 13th is considered especially unlucky (as opposed to all the other 13ths) is because it was on a Friday the 13th that the first of the Knights Templar were burned for heresy. I was wondering if that was true or not.

I too have heard this, I recall it was on the History Channel so I would have to say that is more right.

@CivEmporer : Just because it's on the History Channel doesn't make it right. I've
noticed some appalling errors on their programs about the American Civil War, for
instance.

Nevertheless Napoleo for instance never fought at such Fridays...

Adler

@Serutan you are right there a big mistakes on about somthings, but I have also seen this information from other sources that I've reserched on the subject.

Yes, it's true that the Great-Master Jacques de Molay and two other very important Templars(the Perceptor of Normandy and some other which I can't remember right now) were burned on a Friday 13th.

But it goes beyond that. The last words of Molay, said when he was burning, was a curse directed at the king Phillippe IV the Fair, the pope Clement and the knight William of Nogaret, the three men that had bring the Templars to their end. He promissed that in less then one year the 3 men would face the "Court of God", and that their descendants were damned for 13 generations. The odd thing is the 3 died in less then one year. And we only know about the descendants of king Phillippe, and they were indeed incredibly unlucky. His 3 sons became kings at some point, because the older ones kept beign killed. His only daughter, Isabelle de France, ended her days in an English Monastery/Prison, locked by her son Edward III. After Charles de la Marche, the youngest of Phillipe's sons, died, the dynasty of the Capetingians came to an end. That was one hell of a curse.

So, Friday 13th is an unlucky day to burn someone at the stake. I'll have to remember that.

I think its been unlucky since the Killer murdered all them teenagers with a chainsaw