Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Assassin envoys to the king were ambushed and slain by a Templar knight named Walter du Mesnil near Tripoli while returning from the negotiations, an act apparently sanctioned by the Templar Grand Master Odo de Saint Amand. Amalric demanded the knight be surrendered, but Odo refused, claiming only the pope had the authority to punish du Mesnil.
The grand master of the Knights Templar was the supreme commander of the holy order, starting with founder Hugues de Payens. Some held the office for life while others resigned life in monasteries or diplomacy. Grand masters often led their knights into battle on the front line and the numerous occupational hazards of battle made some tenures ...
Rashid al-Din Sinan ( Arabic: راشد الدين سنان Rāshid ad-Dīn Sinān; 1131/1135 – 1193) also known as the Old Man of the Mountain ( Arabic: شيخ الجبل Sheikh al-Jabal; Latin: Vetulus de Montanis ), [1] [2] was an Arab Muslim missionary ( dāʿī) [3] who served as the leader of the Nizari Ismaili state and the Order of ...
The siege of Acre (also called the fall of Acre) took place in 1291 and resulted in the Crusaders ' losing control of Acre to the Mamluks. It is considered one of the most important battles of the period. Although the crusading movement continued for several more centuries, the capture of the city marked the end of further crusades to the Levant.
Edward is the father of Haytham Kenway, who would go on to become a high-ranking Templar and the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed III; the grandfather of Ratonhnhaké꞉ton / Connor, Haytham's son and the protagonist of Assassin's Creed III; and an ancestor of Desmond Miles, the protagonist of the modern-day sequences of the first five main ...
Ezio Auditore da Firenze ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛttsjo audiˈtoːre da (f)fiˈrɛntse]) is a character in the video game series Assassin's Creed, an Italian Master Assassin who serves as the protagonist of the series' games set during the Italian Renaissance. His life and career as an Assassin are chronicled in Assassin's Creed II, II ...
The International (TI) is an annual esports world championship for the five-on-five video game Dota 2.Produced by the game's developer Valve, the International is the final event of the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) and consists of 20 teams: 12 based on final results from the DPC; six from North America, South America, Southeast Asia, China, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe regional leagues; and ...
Robert IV of Sablé. Robert IV de Sablé (or de Sabloil; 1150 − 23 September 1193) [1] [2] was Lord of Sablé, [3] the eleventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar from 1191 to 1192 and Lord of Cyprus from 1191 to 1192. He was known as the Grand Master of the Knights Templars and the Grand Master of the Holy and Valiant Order of Knights Templars.