Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins

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The '''Spanish Assassins''' were the branch of [[Assassins]] located in [[Spain]], who were, during the [[Renaissance]], closely tied with the Spanish royal house and the enemies of [[Templars|Templar]]-influenced inquisitors, who massacred the Assassins across the country.

==History==
In 1491, [[Tomás de Torquemada]] was fooled by [[Rodrigo Borgia]], the [[Grand Master of the Templar Order|Grand Master]] of the [[Templars|Templar Order]], into believing that the Assassins were heretics. As a result, the Spanish Inquisitors arrested and burned numerous Spanish Assassins. [[Luis de Santángel]] and Javier Caballero two Assassins and companions of [[Christoffa Corombo]], informed the [[Italian Assassins|Italian Assassin]] [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]] of the Inquisition, which caused Ezio to sail for Spain. The spokesman of the Spanish Assassins, [[Raphael Sanchez|Raphael Sánchez]], met with Ezio, and assigned him to kill several high-ranking Inquisitors. With help from other Spanish Assassins, Ezio rescued several captured Brothers, and killed many inquisitors. He failed to kill Tomás de Torquemada bowever, and later spared him, saying that he was not a Templar, just blinded by his faith.<ref name="Discovery">''[[Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]''</ref>

However, the Inquisition killed most of the Assassins.<ref name="Discovery"/> By 1498, both Sánchez and Santángel had died, and with their deaths the Assassins had no grip on the Spanish royal family and the branch was nearly deserted. Ezio, now co-leader of the Italian Assassins along with Machiavelli, sent his apprentices to reorganise the branch.

These apprentices, searched Santángel's room, found his journal, and realised that he had been slowly poisoning Queen Isabella. They felt at first that it was retaliation for slaughtering his family. However they kept an eye on the Queen, and found that she was threatened by the Borgia to help spread the Inquisition. They decided to finish what Santángel started, poisoning the Queen. They find the recipe of the poison, and double the dose to ensure her death. They find that one of the Queen's servants was a collaborator, and through her they administer a fatal dose.<ref name="Brotherhood">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref><ref name="Project Legacy">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]''</ref>

By 1511, the Spanish Assassins had regrouped and occasionally received aid from [[Ottoman Assassins]] sent from [[Constantinople]] by Ezio Auditore. This year, the Spanish Assassins once again faced problems from the Inquisitors, who were now acting on orders of Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros. With help of the Ottoman Assassins, the Spanish Assassins eliminated the culprits.<ref name="ACR">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>

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Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins