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Master Templar(Updated)

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Master Templar is a leadership rank of mid to high rank within the Templar Order and previously known as Maegester, the highest rank is in the Inner Sanctum were they served under three Guardians, while also being seated among the Board of Directors of various Abstergo Industries Divisions. With its lowest ranking being alongside a Lieutenant under a Grand Master of the Order within a Templar Rite as a Templar leader.

Notable Maegesters

Wardens of the Ancients

• Gorm Kjotvesson[1] (873)
  Gorm Kjotvesson
  (873)

Notable Master Templars

Templar Rites

• 
  Tomás de Torquemada
  (c. 1491 – 1498)
• 
  Lawrence Washington
  (c. 1738 – 1752)
• 
  Shay Cormac
  (c. 1758 – ?)
• 
  Madeleine de L'Isle
  (1764 – 1777)
• 
  William Sleeman
  (c. 1839 – 1856)
• 
  Crawford Starrick
  (? – 1868)
• 
  Coxworth
  (c. 1927)
• 
  Joffre
  (c. 1927)
• 
  Tatsumi
  (c. 1927)

Inner Sanctum

• 
  Daniel Cross
  (c. 2002 – 2012)
• 
  Warren Vidic
  (? – 2012)
• 
  Laetitia England
  (? – present)
• 
  Juhani Otso Berg
  (2012 – present)
• 
  Simon Hathaway
  (? – present)

Lieutenants of the Templar Order

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Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

Lieutenant is a leadership rank that is Second-in-Command to the Grand Master of the Templar Order, alongside Master Templars as Templar leaders of Templar Rites. Its predecessor was Second-in-Command to the Grand Maegester of the Ancients, being one of five Maegesters.

Being part of a Rite leadership, their role under their Grand Master is to uphold the Templar principles while they assist in leading the Rite to guide humanity for the betterment of society in their aim for peace.

The earliest known individual with the rank of Lieutenant was held by the Ancients Fulke of the Wardens of Relics sect, under Grand Maegester Alfred of Wessex during the Viking expansion of England.

The only known Templars that had the rank of Lieutenant was during the Age of Enlightenment, as the Parisian Rite had three different individuals that served as Lieutenant to the House of Serre, a Templar family who had held the rank of Grand Master for several decades.

Structure

Appointments

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

Rite Administration

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

Their Grand Master have the authority of their Rite, that Rite is named after a specific geographic region. A Lieutenant would participate in their meetings with other Rites to discuss the politics of their nation, domestic and global, and conditions of the Order itself. Ensuring their brother Templars that whatever direction their Rite would take, it would benefit the Order and adhere to their principles, therefor maintained their international relations.

In terms of internal policies, a Lieutenant is also part of the Grand Master's Rite meetings to plan the direction of their own nation, were they would discuss their plans with their subordinates. They are Seneschals, Advisors, Commanders, Preceptors, Knights, Warriors, Clerics, and finally, the Disciples.

Being themselves a subordinate of a Grand Master, they could also be given other duties, such as organizing the training of the next Grand Master, the extent of that training would be sett by the Grand Master. For example, François de la Serre, who approved that Lieutenant Julie de la Serre and the British Templar Frederick Weatherall could conduct the training of swordsmanship to their daughter, Élise de la Serre. While François himself gave her the education of the Templars and their principles.

Inner Sanctum Regulations

"You all know as well as I do why the Black Cross was created -- What it means."

―The Black Cross to the Inner Sanctum, lecturing them on its origins, 2017.

After the foundation of the Inner Sanctum, promotions of Grand Masters came under their control. Followed by the foundation of the Black Cross to prevent corruption. Their investigations was notified to the specific Rite investigated to a Grand Master, with instructions that their operations are not to be interfered with, all information in regards to encounters with the Black Cross must be kept silent and the Rites are instructed to assist with anything requested by the Black Cross. As a Black Cross have the authority to do whatever is necessary to find anyone breaking Templar principles within the governing structures of a Rite, including killing any corrupt Templars.

History

Anglo-Saxon England

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

Age of Enlightenment

Élise de la Serre: "Arno... François Germain was my father's lieutenant."

Arno Dorian: "What?"

—Élise de la Serre and Arno Dorian, discussing her father's lieutenant, 1791.

Germain being taken away after his expulsion

At some point since 1768, under the leadership of the Grand Master of the Parisian Rite François de la Serre, François-Thomas Germain became his Lieutenant. As Lieutenant, Germain started getting visions of Great towers of gold, cities shining white as silver, these lead him to discover the vault of Jacques de Molay in the Temple in Paris and found the Codex Pater Intellectus.

Afterwards, Germain came to view the Templar Order as corrupted by wealth and power of the nobility, church and state. first attempted to convince Grand Master de la Serre of

Notable Lieutenants

Order of the Ancients

• 
  Fulke
  Wardens of Relics
  ? - c.875

Order of the Knights Templar

• 
  François-Thomas Germain
  Parisian Rite(c.1768 - c.1774)
• Julie de la Serre[1] Parisian Rite(c.1774 – 1778)
  Julie de la Serre
  Parisian Rite(c.1774 – 1778)
• 
  Jean Burnel
  Parisian Rite(1789)

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Unity (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (As an Ancients rank)

Behind the Scenes

The term Second-in-Command and Lieutenant is used interchangeably in the Assassin's Creed: Unity novel.

It is unknown if Julie de la Serre was present at the exile of François-Thomas Germain, as she isn't seen in the flashback of the event.