Templar leader

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This article is about the Templar rank. You may be looking for the equivalent rank in the Assassin Brotherhood.

The position of Templar leader was given to any member of the Templar Order who had leadership over a Templar branch of the order.

Although the leader of a Templar Rite typically held the rank of Grand Master, there have been known instances where the leader instead only held the rank of Master Templar, usually because they operated on behalf of another Rite's Grand Master.

By the 21st century, the Grand Masters no longer held the highest rank among the Templar Order. They were instead answerable to the Guardians, who in turn answered to the General of the Cross.

Known Templar leaders

Leaders who are known to also have attained the rank of Grand Master are marked with an asterisk. (*)

British Rite

• 
  Reginald Birch*
  c. 1735 – 1757
• 
  Lawrence Washington
  Thirteen Colonies
  1738 – 1752
• 
  James Wardrop
  Thirteen Colonies
  1752 – 1754
• 
  Francis Cotton
  India
  ? – 1839
• 
  William Sleeman
  India
  1839 – ?
• 
  Crawford Starrick*
  ? – 1868
• 
  Thaddeus Gift*
  ? – 1927

Byzantine Rite

• 
  Manuel Palaiologos
  ? – c. 1509
• 
  Ahmet*
  c. 1509 – 1512

Chinese Rite

• 
  Zhang Yong
  ? – 1532
• 
  Sun Yat-sen*
  Shanghai Rite
  ? – 1925
• 
  Stirling Fessenden*
  Shanghai Rite
  1925 – ?

Colonial Rite / American Rite

• 
  Haytham Kenway*
  1754 – 1781
• Madeleine de L'Isle[2] Louisiana Rite 1764 – 1777
  Madeleine de L'Isle
  Louisiana Rite
  1764 – 1777
• 
  Charles Lee*
  1781 – 1782
• 
  William M. Tweed*
  c. 1863
• 
  American Grand Master*
  c. 2014

Levantine Rite

• 
  Hugues de Payens*
  1118 – 1136
• 
  Gerard de Ridefort*
  1185 – 1189
• 
  Basilisk
  1189 – 1190 (de facto)
• 
  Robert de Sablé*
  1190 – 1191
• 
  Armand Bouchart*
  1191 – 1193
• 
  Philippe du Plessis*
  1201 – 1208
• 
  Jacques de Molay*
  1292 – 1314

Parisian Rite

• 
  François de la Serre*
  1768 – 1789
• 
  François-Thomas Germain*
  1789 – 1794

Roman Rite

• 
  Sylvester II
  ? – 1003
• 
  Rodrigo Borgia*
  1476 – 1500 (de facto)
  1500 – 1503 (de jure)
• 
  Cesare Borgia*
  1500 – 1503 (de facto)
  1503 – 1507 (de jure)

West Indies Rite / Caribbean Rite

• 
  Laureano de Torres y Ayala*
  c. 1673 – 1722
• 
  Caribbean Grand Master*
  c. 2014

Other Rites

• 
  Tomás de Torquemada
  Spanish Rite
  ? – 1498
• 
  Alan Rikkin*
  "Unknown"
  ? – 2016
• 
  Mexican Grand Master*
  Mexican Rite
  c. 2014