{{Short description|Coded Latin manuscript}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox document | document_name = Larmenius Charter<br />''(Carta Transmissionis trans: Charter of Transmission)'' | image = | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | orig_lang_code = | title_orig = | date_created = February 1324 (claimed), 1804 (first appeared) | date_presented = | date_ratified = | date_effective = | date_repeal = | location_of_document = Mark Masons Hall, London | commissioned = | writer = Johannes Marcus Larmenius (claimed) | signers = | media_type = Vellum document | subject = | purpose = Detailing the transfer of leadership of the Knights Templar to Jean Marc Larmenius after the death of Jacques de Molay |Image=Larmenius-blackwhite-DanielClausen2021.png}}
The '''Larmenius Charter''' or {{Lang|la|Carta Transmissionis}} ({{Translation|Charter of Transmission}}) is a coded Latin manuscript purportedly created by Johannes Marcus Larmenius (Fr.: Jean-Marc Larmenius) in February 1324, detailing the transfer of leadership of the Knights Templar to Larmenius after the death of Jacques de Molay.<ref name=":0" />
It also has appended to it a list of 22 successive grand masters of the Knights Templar after de Molay, ending in 1804, the name of Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat appearing last on the list. The document is written in a supposed devised ancient Knights Templar codex.<ref name=":0" /> The document first appeared publicly in 1804.<ref name=":0" />
The document is widely agreed by modern scholars to be a forgery,<ref name="caillet">{{Cite book |last1=Caillet |first1=Serge |title=L'Ordre rénové du Temple: Aux racines du Temple solaire |publisher=Dervy |year=1997 |isbn=978-2-85076-924-5 |location=Paris |page=28 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Templars and their sources |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |isbn=978-1-138-20190-3 |editor-last=Borchardt |editor-first=Karl |location=London; New York |editor-last2=Döring |editor-first2=Karoline Dominika |editor-last3=Josserand |editor-first3=Philippe |editor-last4=Nicholson |editor-first4=Helen J.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Emmons |first=Paul |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Confabulations_Storytelling_in_Architect/R4a_DQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=larmenius |title=Confabulations : Storytelling in Architecture |last2=Feuerstein |first2=Marcia F. |last3=Dayer |first3=Carolina |date=2016-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-16227-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Barber |first=Malcolm |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Military_Orders_History_and_heritage/dSM_w4Q1sUwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=larmenius |title=The Military Orders: History and heritage |last2=Mallia-Milanes |first2=Victor |last3=Nicholson |first3=Helen J. |date=2008-01-01 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-0-7546-6290-7 |language=en}}</ref> though a number of speculative occultist writers have disputed this.<ref name=":0" /> There is no evidence that the Knights Templar survived their suppression.<ref name=":0" /> John Walker noted that, "there is no evidence that the Templars in the Middle Ages used any form of Latin cipher; the standard of the Latin translation is modern rather than medieval; the grammar is too consistent for a medieval charter; and (perhaps most tellingly) there is absolutely no evidence that a person named John Mark Larmenius ever existed."<ref name=":0" /> Some scholars have argued it was created by a doctor named Ledru, who may have made the forgery without Fabré-Palaprat knowing.<ref name=":0" />
Despite it being a forgery, it was widely used as proof of a connection between revivalist neo-Templar groups, Templar freemasons, and the original Knights Templar, by members of these occultist groups. Some of these groups reject the authenticity of the manuscript.<ref name=":0" />
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Category:Self-styled orders Category:Forgery controversies Category:Neo-Templarism