Regardless of the authenticity of the Larmenius Charter (many historians claim it to be a historical forgery), the 17th Grand Master on the list after Larmenius (and 41st since the founding of the Order) was Prince Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of the throne of King Louis XV. He was the first, after de Molay, to officially re-establish the order in 1705, endowing it with statutes (Statuts des chevaliers de l’ordre du temple) and giving it the right to add the title "sovereign" to its name, thus publicly legitimizing the existence of Templarism.Coincidentally, according to several experts (based on the inks used), the drafting of the Larmenius Charter would date back precisely to the period of the Duke of Orléans.Yet, only 87 years later, in the midst of the French Revolution, it seemed that the line had definitively ended with the death in 1792 of the last of the Grand Masters on the list, Duke Louis Hercule-Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac, killed in Versailles by the Jacobins without having named his successor.
