Assassins and Templars
Gone Medieval
History Hit
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The heart of the Assassin’s Creed franchise is the deadly rivalry between the brotherhoods of Assassins and Templars. These were real groups in history, whose power and influence in their lifetimes matched the longevity of their reputations. But how much of what we know of the two organisations is myth, and what is reality?
To help separate fact from fiction, Matt Lewis is joined by Dr Steve Tibble, author of Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood.
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Executive Producers: Etienne Bouvier, Julien Fabre, Steve Lanham, Jen Bennett
Music by Elitsa Alexandrova
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Lewis. Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history. |
| 0:08.7 | We've got the most intriguing mysteries, the gobsmacking details and latest groundbreaking research from the Vikings to the printing press, from kings to popes to the crusades. |
| 0:20.3 | We cross centuries and continents to delve |
| 0:22.8 | into rebellions, plots and murders, to find the stories big and small that tell us how we got here. |
| 0:30.0 | Find out who we really were with Gone Medieval. |
| 0:37.3 | Music Welcome to this episode. Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval. I'm Matt Lewis. We've got a Christmas treat for you, and I'm taking a sneaky opportunity to plug the other podcast I host for History Hit, Echoes of |
| 0:54.3 | History. It's actually fitting to be sneaking this in because the episode you're about to hear |
| 0:58.7 | is all about the Templars and the assassins and the interplay between two of the most |
| 1:04.1 | mythologised groups of the medieval period. The episode is a great chat that I had with my |
| 1:10.3 | friend and friend of gone medieval, Steve Tibble. |
| 1:13.6 | His book, Assassins and Templars, A Battle in Myth and Blood, |
| 1:18.7 | is an absolutely fascinating forensic examination of both groups, |
| 1:23.1 | the similarities they shared, the differences that separated them, |
| 1:26.7 | and the interactions between them. |
| 1:28.8 | It's a great book if you want a good read over the Christmas break or any other time. |
| 1:34.3 | Echoes of History is a podcast History Hit Produces in partnership with Ubisoft. |
| 1:38.6 | It looks at the real history behind the Assassin's Creed video games. |
| 1:42.2 | So whether you want some general history |
| 1:44.7 | from ancient Egypt to Victorian London |
| 1:47.5 | via Greece, the Vikings and Renaissance Italy, |
| 1:50.6 | or you want to supplement the experience of the games |
| 1:53.3 | with some more background, |
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