Robert de Sablé

Robert de Sablé (1150- 1191) was the 11th Grand Master of the Knights Templar and the one time Lord of Anjou.

Biography
Robert de Sable was born in Sable-sur-Sarthe sometime in 1150 to a respected military family. Robert’s father was a Templar and Robert was raised as such. During the times of the Crusades, Robert joined and became second to King Richard himself. After the death of Lord Basilisk in 1190, Robert became the Grand Master of the Templars. Sometime in 1191 Robert and nine other Templars discovered the Apple of Eden and took it. Robert took the Apple’s existence as proof of God and sought to protect it in his hideout in the Jerusalem Vault. Later that year, three Assassins snuck into the Templar hideout to take the Piece of Eden. The leader of the group, Altair Ibn-La’Ahad, confronted Robert and attempted to kill him but was caught and thrown into the next room. Robert and his men faced the other two and managed to kill one and severely injure the other, however he managed to escape with the Apple. Robert realized that this meant that his ally Rashid ad-din Sinan, also known as Al Mualim the leader of the Assassins, had betrayed the Templars infuriating him. Robert then tracked the Assassins back to their hideout in Masyaf and laid siege to the town. The Assassins then launched a trap that forced the Templars to retreat. Throughout the year the other Templars were being hunted and killed by the Assassin Altair under the orders of Al Mualim. Robert sent his lieutenant Maria Thorpe to Jerusalem as decoy to lay a trap for the Assassins. Robert then went to Arsuf in an attempt to get the Crusaders and Saracens to join together and destroy the Assassins. He was confronted in the Crusader camp by Altair who tried to appeal to King Richard. Unable to make a decision, Richard ordered Robert and Altair to fight. Ultimately, Altair killed Robert in their duel, but with his dying breath revealed that Al Mualim was a Templar.