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that the people who have brought the case may be loonies for claiming to be decended from the knights templar does not really matter (tho given how meny generations ago the knights templar were some of them are bound to really be decended from the knights templar).
The article says they are not after money but simply to clear the knights name, if so this seems a worthy enough excersise if the knights are really innocent of the charge of heresy (as they probably mostly are... there were good reasons for the pope and the french king to get rid of a rich group), though I believe that this should be done by historians rather than through legal means. It is the idea that such an investigation should be done through a lawsuit that seems to be the mad thing to me.