Assassin's Creed: The Real History - "Knights Templar"
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- In the thirty-ninth episode of "Assassin's Creed: The Real History" we take a look at the faction that inspired the antagonists of the series, and represented the backbone of the Crusader Army.
This series will be a way for me to shed light on the real history behind characters, groups, events and locations that are showcased in the Assassin's Creed video game series. Throughout the video I will be comparing real historical moments to those represented in the selected game.
If you have any characters, groups, events or locations that you'd like me to cover in the future, please be sure to leave it in a comment below.
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Phillip the 4th of France was ironically called "the fair" despite the fact that he was quite brutal in his attempt to centralize the government and he purged the templars
50 20 tempario. Military trops 🇪🇸🇬🇧
I hate how the games just label each side of having wrongdoings, but in true history, the templars fight for the greater good and a much more NOBLE cause
Yeah, Deus Vult
The Ubisoft company just want to dash their own Christian tradition in order to please the bloodthirsty muslims.
Same in AC Revelations, where the ottomans are the good ones and the Byzantines, natives of the region, absolutely evil
What if OnlineKnights are just the online branch of a modern day Templar order? [Conspiracies!]
I suppose you'll never know for certain.
-Robius5991
The nothing is true. Basically literally anything is possible. But I think a lot of stuff happened in ww2, its ww2.
What I said stuff was more likely in ww2, I said nothing about Hitler.
The initiates exist
OnlineKnights so he knows it is
The Knights Templar was a large organization of devout Christians during the medieval era who carried out an important mission: to protect European travelers visiting sites in the Holy Land while also carrying out military operations. The Knights Templar were a wealthy, powerful and mysterious order that has fascinated historians and the public for centuries, tales of the Knights Templar, their financial acumen, their military prowess and their work on behalf of Christianity during the Crusades still circulate throughout modern culture.
Knights Order wondering about how they gonna perceived in the future
*The future: They were gready, islamophobic, backstabber, invaders of muslim lands oppressors hitting poor innocent muslims*
My guess is if we met the real Knights Templar and Assassins it would'nt be like the game it be the other way around, it would be the Assassins attempting to control free will and the Templars fighting to preserve it which make Abstergo the Assassins and not the Templars.
Exavctly, the political correctness is very different from reality
I know this is old but ur info is sooo solid! I’m so glad you go so deep into the history!
This video really helped with my research For my book about the templars in the third crusade. keep up with the series
Fun fact: Templars were monks who joined The Freemasons and later on became Templars.
i wish AC would have a brother series called templars creed ore some thing
templars Creed sounds terrible (and they were not a Creed) plus sadly people would just moan at Ubisoft for 'milking' it
+mynameisleo02 yeah i agree oh and also my outo correct wrote ore i meant or but it be probably a good series show the other side of the story
+Úlfur Hrafn that would be good, and I enjoyed Rouge plus I just love Assassin's Creed so if there's more that means more story and fun!
+mynameisleo02 YES MORE LORE MORE STORIES!
+Úlfur Hrafn MORE MORE MORE!!!!
I hope the fact that knights templar is a french military organisation (grandmasters, leaders and fighters are mostly french) won’t hurt the feeling of english speakers
Nerdy Guy ill always be happy that a group of religious extremists aren’t from my country haha
Reveley_97 haha i like your answer .
Not even a fan of Assassin's Creed, I did finish the first one and played a bit of the second one both a long time ago, but I am a fan of history and I want to say you do a good job in these videos with both providing historical facts and with mantaining an objective view
Great video like always. Here's a suggestion. What about for each assassins creed game research about the historical events in each game and compare them to the in game history and to the actual event historically (obviously one vid or each game). It's just wild a suggestion so you don't have to take it on board if you don't want to I won't be bothered, but seems cool.
I haven't really thought about doing the events by game, however that could be a possibility. Instead, I was considering just covering single events depicted in the games, since in most titles the protagonists find themselves involved in a variety of historical events which could be difficult to cover in a single video. I already have a few ideas so far, but I will keep your suggestion in mind. Thank you for participating in the series by sharing your thoughts!
-Robius5991
Your welcome 😊
She's right, it would be a good idea. For example, in Assassins Creed III when Connor was accused of inciting the Boston Massacre, when in the game, Charles Lee had just fired his musket into the air.
I'm not sure if its acrurate, but I did see a documentary where it mentions, it actually kicks off when someone misinterprets a command to mean fire and the red coats loose into the crowd, (it's was suggested the "command" did not even come from the red coat side) the rest is history.
I had a quick look at the series of events, and it does seem odd that after 2 minutes of no hostile action or reason to fire, the troops suddenly fire seemingly without provocation or order from the red coat side, so who knows?
When I saw this video on the what to watch section, I got excited.
Actually a lot of of Muslims fought on the European side as mercenaries as the Crusades were more about money and land than issues of Faith
+JustinJurazick You use modern way of interpretation. For the Latin knights, faith and religion were closely linked to politic. Therefore, the Crusades (term not used at the time btw, they were only "armed pilgrimages", or iter hierosolymitanum) did appeal on a large part on the faith of the crusaders, and most notabily during the First Crusade. As for the existence of muslim mercenaries, that is true. Faith and religion did not block the relations between Latin and Muslims. We have historical proof of many contacts between them, and report of friendship between Latin and Muslim. The thing is, the political situation in the Middle East at that time was so complicated that the Latin just took quite naturaly a place in the political relations of this area.
Great vid
Really awesome video, I loved going back to the scenes in AC. I never realized how gruesome and intense they were. Classic AC. I did find a possible hole in all of this though - if history says that the "Templars" were all catholic but had ulterior motives, then it is possible, unbeknownst to us all, that they simply faked being TRULY catholic (maximum pious.) Let's not forget that modern day science and philosophy wasn't in the common vernacular back then, but was still known by many people (especially higher ups or people within the right realm of influence, it wouldn't be strange to say that each target on Altair's list didn't have some connection to a circle like this,) but the "religious type" wasn't very fond of new ideas - they most likely wouldn't have spoken much of their true beliefs, meanwhile having their eyes set on the "Templar Mission" (control and obedience.)
It is known that (in actual reality) America's forefathers were very agnostic. Multiple quotes from Thomas Jefferson (aka Tommy J.) and Ben Franklin (aka Benny Franks) were either questioning the existence of God, or pointing out it's overall meaninglessness. In some quotes, they speak of the cult-like, cut throat nature of religion (Christianity really) in Europe at the time. The reason I say this is because it is not unlikely that the Templar order knew, according to history even predating the Birth of Christ, that there was in fact ALIEN TECHNOLOGY on earth that they could use to control the masses (The Apple of Eden(A.D.) )
I believe that the Templars, or whatever name they go by at any time, has had the same agenda throughout. But I also believe it is fair to say that the parties involved over the thousands of years of conflict and affectation may have never knew each other that well, or at all. Most of history was not recorded properly, or at all. It all seemed so simple at the start, the good vs the bad, and yet the more we know of the real story, the more the blacks and the whites begin to blend into a never ending gray.
Crusade is going on in these comments
Great helm on a bold head lolz.
So once Rouge and Unity come out, are you going to re-do any of the vids you did? Like you've done some French leaders, but it doesn't have game footage, ya know?
'What use to me are such sad days, when I have only earned them by lies'
Of course the pieces of Eden aren't real physical artifacts. The game says the pieces of Eden represent the word of god, the ideals of religion, the belief in a higher power and the doctrine that gives way to such ideas. So yeah in that since the pieces of Eden were in fact REAL and definitely something the Templars sought to control. If you control the "word of god" you control the people who believe it. When you mistake figurative for literal you'll never understand the staggering amount of esoteric occult information being shot directly over your head on a daily basis, regardless of the medium. Go on thinking that this is just a video game. Entertainment these days is far more than just that.
"FURST" in english translates to, "hey Robius i'm dumb".
I'm loving that profile picture :)
H2AK0N so am i
cool beans
They broke his legs
It gave me chills
the game does it opposite..assassin in real life were the "bad guys" didnt care about anyone but better there own position in life. The templar however were the good ones and did great things for everyone.. AC Rogue ftw
rub ber The Ismaili were branded as heretics, slaughtered and enslaved, I think they did what they had to do to practice religious freedom.
+rub ber yea AC rouge is the best
rub ber nope.templars were also evil.you Christians say that Templars were good,Muslims say that assassins were good.in real life both were evil bastards.thats why I am an atheist
ant man
All evidence of devil-worship is second-hand but nonetheless the possibilities are so strong that many take it as a given fact that they were Devil worshippers. The Templars funded extensive studies of Kabbalah (Jewish Mysticism), had friendly dealings with Muslims and Arabs including absorbing parts of Arab occultism, researched and utilized many forms of magic, ritual and generally had their hands in every (dark) art imaginable. Those who believe in real magic attribute their whole success to magical artifacts acquired via Solomon, and say that the Templars' astonishingly rapid rise to power was due to either genuine black magic, use of Godly powers, or both. However each individual area of study is only circumstantial evidence of devil worship.
It is general knowledge in the occult community that the Templars were Devil Worshippers of some kind, Traditional Satanists worshipping some kind of hybrid god borne from Christian, Jewish and Occult mythologies. Or at least that such forces were in control of the Templars whether or not they knew it. Eliphas Levi, one of the most inaccurate and ill-respected historians of magic, says that the Templars were anti-Christian and anti-Papal from their foundation and merely became more blasé and open about it as they grew strong and arrogant.
Other authors beside Levi (i.e., Gavin Baddeley) also repeat the same general theme, that the Knights Templar (who devised the early version of the Baphomet, later adopted as the main Sigil of the Church of Satan) were originally Christians that became power-mongering, utterly corrupt, devil-worshipping black magicians. By anyone's standards that's quite a large change: history tends to exaggerate, especially the history of the victims as written by winners!
In "The History of Magic" by Eliphas Levi (1860) the author says, "when a rich and dissolute Order, initiated into the mysterious doctrines of the Kabalah, seemed ready to turn on legitimate authority, on the conservative principles of the hierarchy, menacing the entire world with a gigantic revolution. The Templars, whose history is understood so little, were the terrible conspirators in question, and it is time at length to reveal the secret of their fall". Levi pours scorn and unholy criticism upon the Knights Templar for a further five pages before moving on to other (just-as-paranoid) matters.
Book CoverA prodigal book on Knights Templar conspiracy theory is the infamous "Holy Blood and Holy Grail" by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln (1991). The authors are known to be unreliable in places, but it's an important book nonetheless and quite beloved by holy grail enthusiasts. There is at least one Magister in the Church of Satan (go figure) who is involved with obscure and disreputable holy grail research.
Page 72 states that "The Templars supposedly worshipped a devil called Baphomet. At their secret ceremonies they supposedly [... were] invested with occult powers. [...]". He mentions infanticide, orgies, abortions, obscene kisses (kissing the backside of Satan was a common accusation of the Inquisition, denoting subservience to the devil) and homosexuality.
"But", the author continues, "of all the charges levelled against these soldiers of Christ, who had fought and laid down their lives for Christ, one stands out as most bizarre and seemingly improbable. They were accused of ritually denying Christ, of repudiating, trampling and spitting on the cross"
Accused, largely it seems, of black mass, and the formal accusations by the Inquisition included lots of magical deviance - in short this meant of being in league with the Devil.
Sceptics are very right to point out that the Inquisition (and the King who initiated the campaign against the Templars) demonized them, and that we don't actually know the truth. Much of the Christian Churches active investigation into the Knights Templar focused on a head/baste that they worshipped, some historians say it could be the head of various Christian saints, and it may be this that was demonized by the estranged Catholic Church into a demonic figurehead.
But we do know they were strong, wealthy and powerful. Were they fallen, devil-worshipping Christians? Were they devil worshippers of a different kind? Were they simply corrupt and immoral, or were they mostly-upstanding Christians, victims of some political game that we don't know about? The possibilities are more like monstrous hydras than sober topics of conversation and many historians won't delve into it.
("Holy Blood, Holy Grail" does go in to much more detail on the etymology and possibilities of what the "Baphomet" was and represented, but that's a tangent.)
Endless research is possible, and so are endless assumptions; there are many misleading books on the subject, so tread carefully if you care enough to research the Knights Templar!
ant man
The First Crusade saw motley bands of peasants, opportunists, criminals and the medieval equivalent of gangsters flock together and go on crusade in search of riches. On the way to the Holy Land, they often targeted Jews in Europe treating them as if they were de facto Saracens - infidels in their midst. A chronicler called Solomon bar Samson wrote of a massacre in 1096 in the German city of Mainz, which was clearly horrific even by the standards of the time. It was led by a noble called Emico who forced his way in to the city with armed men and sought out the Jewish population.
Terrified, the Jews of Mainz headed towards the Archbishop’s palace and took refuge, prepared to fight to the last against the thugs approaching them.
“The bishop’s men, who had promised to help them, were the very first to flee, thus delivering the Jews into the hands of the enemy. They were indeed a poor support; even the bishop himself fled from his church for it was thought to kill him also because he had spoken good things of the Jews.”
In spite of all their efforts, the Jews within the palace could not stop Emico breaking in and men, women and children faced up to the inevitable. They were going to die. They would either die at the hands of the crusader gang or at their own hand.
“Then all of them, to a man, cried out with a loud voice: ‘Now we must delay no longer for the enemy are already upon us. Let us hasten and offer ourselves as a sacrifice to the Lord. Let him who has a knife examine it that it not be nicked, and let him come and slaughter us for the sanctification of the Only One, the Everlasting and then let him cut his own throat or plunge the knife into his own body.'”
As Emico and his men stormed the courtyard, the Jewish leader Isaac ben Moses stretched out his neck and one of the gang duly cut his head off.
“The others, wrapped by their fringed prayingshawls, sat by themselves in the courtyard, eager to do the will of their Creator. They did not care to flee into the chamber to save themselves for this temporal life, but out of love they received upon themselves the sentence of God. The enemy showered stones and arrows upon them, but they did not care to flee, and [Esther 9:5] “with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter, and destruction” the foe killed all of those whom they found there. When those in the chambers saw the deed of these righteous ones, how the enemy had already come upon them, they then cried out, all of them: “There is nothing better than for us to offer our lives as a sacrifice.”
Emico had arrived with 12,000 men and the Jews were hopelessly outnumbered and inadequately armed. The Jewish women killed their own sons and daughters and then themselves.
“Many men, too, plucked up courage and killed their wives, their sons, their infants. The tender and delicate mother slaughtered the babe she had played with, all of them, men and women arose and slaughtered one another.”
The tales of suicide and murder go on depressingly and unfortunately this kind of pogrom would be repeated several times over the next hundred years in northern Europe.
Nice.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
-Robius5991
We Christians look up to them and the Crusaders as if they are Jedi Knights
Sadly, you might speak truly for some Christians. But for those of us who understand right from wrong, and good from evil, the Knights Templar are nothing but ideological fools who plunder for gold and murder for fun. Not to mention, saying they are Jedi would be very incorrect given the fact that Jedi were purposefully poor and devoted their lives to peace and seeking calm in every aspect in life, so... Templars = Villains.
ant man Alright, so when some foreign terrorist organization walks into your neighborhood and wreaks havoc on all of your friends and family, remember not to fight back, cause then you just started a war with them. "Don't ever defend yourself, cause then you'd start a war." -Some guy on TH-cam
+ant man Gotcha something bud. Here, check this one out. A war has two or more sides. An invasion has an away team and a home team. Oh, and in case your moral compass is so skewed by your love for the pope and gold that you are unable to see that stealing land is wrong, I'm sorry for you.
Gotcha the link here bud:
www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/templars/knights_templars01.htm
ant man Sorry, best I could do on a limited spectrum. Couldn't send you a history book, so I'm sorry. I suppose raping and pillaging is more of a "real history" thing. I mean, if your history book included all that insanity, who would bother read history texts? They'd simply read their bible, make up their own interpretation, and use it as an excuse. Huh, that sounds familiar...
Because they are!
fucking amazing video !
There are no lifelong battles that WE know of ;)
I hnow red ok tharks you so Good
May the Father of understanding guide us
You could do the faction in assassins creed revelations. The ones that the templers were acting as. I forget the name.
me: deus vult to templars and glory to assassins
yay after playing the first game all the way to number 4. I actually would support the Templar order if it was something today. The assassins are note wrong in there views in freedom it just with out a structure or order the world could end up like Rapture in Bioshock.
Imagine what history would've been like if the alliance between Templars and the Mongol horde was succesfull?
knights templar always had long beards
Us templars are still here
DS AHK
Richard the lionheart sold them Cyprus
Templar = Charity
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I question the creed like Shay would
All they were looking for was magic
try doing ac syndicate
Why didn't you say the 72 thing. 72 was the number of rules the templers had to follow plus the rules did get out of control. Read on Wikipedia.
Do Benedict Arnold
Assassin's creed has made the Templars look bad. Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.
FURST
If you look at 5:28 there is Christian Persecution
I assassin's
Could you compare the crusades to Isis or al queda. I mean look at what they did to Constantinople
I don't mean make a video I mean just give me your opinion
+JJAG3 Crusades and ISIS. wtf.
No, you can compare ISIS to the Muslim armies who were actually more brutal and godless when you ctually look into the history...
Rudolph Schwarzenegger no you just can't accept facts
is there a video about templar history that is not told by a christian crazy conspiracy theorist but a real historian? if so can you tell me the name of the video
Are Templars good or bad
Good.
+L bad they killed people as jihadist both have same ideology different religion.Just be objective you guys all know this fact.But if you thought Jihadist are also good guys then what can i say to you :)
Bad. Ur back then they were considered holy
For Christians they are good, for everybody else they are bad.
Depends on the individual knight.
Templars > Assassins
not in creed unity
Repper isn't that game broken
DestroyRebelScum nah its working fine i dont see the issue with that game.
Repper i heard it was really buggy at launch :P
DestroyRebelScum well there are some bugs when trying take downs on AI but all in all i enjoyed it.
The knight templar was inducted into the freemasonary in Britain, They still exist today as a separate branch. They also have the same insignia.
NOT,,, the masons are not, the Knight's Templar. They are an entirely separate order.
It’s funny, really. Whenever the characters talk about Templars they are like “OMG! This horrible person...” but then we just remember that the Templars are nothing more than an order who just wants to bring peace to Earth by controlling everyone.
What if the Templars only wanted to restrict people from doing bad things and would still allow you to be free?
We did not fight for "control" then nor do we desire "control" now. The aim then, as it is now, is to restore order and peace.
let me rephrase what i had said but people all the time from my experience you say christian the say roman catholic now that is not the case protestant they are very different. and then you got all the other ones out there like charismatic.
Europe has been a catholic nation such as Spain,France and Italy (were the pope lives). were as america was actually founded as a protestant currently 25.9% are catholic and 54%is protestant nation south america and mexico well are very roman catholic. now all in all i guess you can say that christian is the reference point of religions like roman catholic and protestant, and you can probably find a list of them. although they are not the same belief system. like you might know but i think there are a lot of people that do not know this.
You're religiously misinformed. A Christian is one who believes and lives out the teachings preached by Jesus (the Gospel) and the 12 Apostles. The church that Jesus founded was histotically later known as the Universal Church (in the ancient Greek "he katholike ekklesia") which in English is translated as "the Catholic Church", as catholic is translated from the Kione Greek word katholike which means universal in English. This Christian Church is patristically recorded for the first time in the letter of Ignatius of Antioch (a pupil and student of John the Apostle, and ordained a Bishop of Antioch by Peter the Apostle) written to the Smyrnaeans, written about the year 110 AD. In the Catechetical Discourses of St. Cyril of Jerusalem, the name "Catholic Church" is used to distinguish it from other groups that also call themselves "the Church", like the heretical groups, Gnostics, Arians, etc., which were present at the time that St. Paul was writing his pastoral letters to Timothy. This church called Catholic is historically the same Church lead by the 12 Apostles, because the Apostles chose among men to be ordained Bishops of minor Asia and the middle East, and these men are historically accounted for as successors of the 12 Apostles, and these chosen men were Bishops of the same Church which was called Catholic in the early years of the Church. So my friend, Catholics are Christians, just as Eastern Orthodox are Christians, and lastly and most recently, most Protestants are Christians (not all believe in the doctrine of the Trinity, or in Trinitarian Baptism). To claim that only Protestant are Christians is to be historically ignorant.
Continuation of the term "Catholic":
The term "catholic" is derived from the Greek word καθολικός (katholikos) meaning "universal" and was first used to describe the Church in the early 2nd century.The term katholikos is equivalent to καθόλου (katholou), a contraction of the phrase καθ' ὅλου (kath' holou) meaning "according to the whole". Therefore when the Church was called he katholike ekklesia, it was done so to describe the universality of the Church-- it is located wherever you go; it is inhabited by believers of all races and ages; it is to be found beyond time and throughout all centuries. The Catholic Church teaches the doctrine of the Trinity and the Gospel of Jesus, and mandates Trinitarian Baptism; that alone makes the Church christian. I am open to a debate with you, but you better be prepared to give substantial historical, pheonetocal, linguistical, and logical evidence that you base your proposition on. If you fail on any of those tentets of debate, you will be discredited of the credentiality of debate and I won't debate you any further.
Ps: this is not a religious debate, but an historical and logical (and minimally philosophical) debate, so don't argue through theological argumentation.
ok yea i was wrong a bit lol thanks for the tip
It's a pleasure!
-Peace
Maximus you are almost correct. There were two (actually more than that) liturgical and ecclesial traditions but there were not two churches until the final schism. In the beginning it was the Catholic Church: Greek, Latin, Armenian, Antiocean, etc. These were different ecclesial traditions with differing liturgical rites and different jurisdictions, but it was all under one Church. After the schism there became separated Apostolic Churches not just the two rites of Byzantine and Roman. You were very close, though!
Great stuff, but you speak TOO FAST
U know them as the Templars but we know them as the Enemy! this words belongs to game .p
No its "You know them as Abstergo,We know them as Templars.
Maybe there should be a game where you play as a hospitaller and see the Templars and the assassins from an outside perspective.
One game where you side with the Templar’s and everyone thinks what they are doing is correct, but if you look into the lore, especially in the two newest games (especially origins) you’ll realize they are only looking for power and order, and that they use brainwashing to gain that power. The assassins only follow orders blindly because it’s the only way to get things done without tragedy. They sign up for it, most assassins are most definitely not forced to become an assassin. Now, I don’t agree completely with assassins, but I def do not agree with the Templar’s.
The crusades were have been more successful but sadly as Christians we are very envious and ended up destroying ourselves.
Templars=illuminati
NO, we are NOT, nor are we masons,,,,
@@johnunderwood5115 False, if you've ever played the game you'd see all the illuminati references. The templars are illuminati foot soldiers, along with Masons
@@EricCole69 "they were" past tense buddy!
@@EricCole69 kind of like a joint venture thing maybe? Cause from what I've gathered, they made more elite/secret society groups to hide their true identity or something like that.
Holy moly! Now that you mention it. I've seen a couple of those crosses on the US military badges⚔✝️ i think of the Us Navy too but what if thy symbolize something else
Assassins were a totally sadistic cult sect of Islam. Love how Ubisoft was like yeah these guys can be good. Smh
And yet, they killed far less innocent people than the Templars and the Knights of St. John did. There were no "good guys" then, everyone killed for their own interests, the Crusaders, the Saracens and the Assassins.
islam versus assassins = sunni versus shi'ite,,,,,,,,,
knight templar are mass murderous army.
I might be wrong, but weren't the assassins of both the Crusaders and Saracens?
ant man Don't argue with muslims, they can't handle the fact
Okami-San
Chinese version of Christianity.😂
quazi danish ahmed Theres no ''chinese'' version only different sects.
ant man
it makes me laughed that how hard you pretending to become ignorant.