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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.

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 Lieutenants 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.

Authority

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 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.

Corruption

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.

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
  England
  ? - c. 875

Order of the Knights Templar

• 
  François-Thomas Germain
  Parisian Rite(c.1768 - c.1774)
• Julie de la Serre[2] 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.