La commanderie - Season 1 (2010)

Ambitious knight hospitaller Hugues d'Avène calls it miracle fraud when captain Cortemain's prayer to St.John to heal mysteriously ill Constance if he abandons the quest for the Templars gold is exhausted. The commander refuses to brave the patron saint, even when Hughues threatens to have the Rhodes HQ depose Roger for lack of zeal in the order's crusading purpose. The Breton violently denies the peasants entry to the Virgin's cave sanctuary to pray for harvest as 'disturbing' his rare fancy for private devotion. The commander refuses help as it's outside the order's...

After Hugues's corps is found in the forest, his funeral attracts a royal visitor, the duke of Anjou, a crusading comrade in arms. Thomas is charged with the investigation and soon gets his beloved Constance's confession. But he sets up the Breton brigand leader, after warning him the duke will hunt him as obvious suspect. After the bishop's men beat up farmer Fasiole for failing to pay multiply excessive levies, Giraud offers him to move to derelict order lands. The bishop has no legal recourse, but sends the inquisitor to torture Fasiole into confessions he doesn't ...

The Breton brigand leader saw trough Thomas's trap, but was still killed in a fight with his sneakily following man. Chabert takes his place. The duke bring Thomas papal dispensation from his vow to stop seeking the Templars gold, and even a promise to have Constance's marriage annulled. Thomas finds the clues, but tells only Constance, how he wants to flee with, Giraud who can't decipher what's in Arabic and master Sabet, who can but demands the gold may not finance more bloody crusading. De Montet tells Constance he fired her maid, but actually tries to extract the ...

Captain Cortemain strikes a deal with master Sabet to save lives and share the gold. He arranges for Chabert's 'company' of brigands to be recruited as crusading mercenaries by the royal duke of Anjou. Actually retrieving the treasure proves an adventure, during which Thomas witnesses lord Geoffroy de Montet being throated by his wife's captured maid. Giraud's lust becomes even more dangerous after the arrival of stone-mason Laurent, a gay seducer. Niot is offered a chance to study and enter the clergy, while his parents order him to hide and remain a farmer.

The greedy duke is furious to find the Templars' treasure chests contain only parchments concerning debts to them nobody will still honor. Captain Thomas is thrown in jail, his friends fear torture to death. Instead he's ordered to extract the truth from his haughty lover, who even incites him to torture her by branding for show so as to set a deadly trap. Unable to expel his gay stonemason-lover Laurent because of the pest quarantine, Géraud succumbs to 'Sodomy' temptation again, with bloody outcome.