User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/01 -- Assassin's Creed III era and boxart revealed/@comment-3018037-20120302220330/@comment-1888015-20120302224006

Personally, I believe Charles Lee is a Templar, he sort of seems like the type going off information that's been given. The only thing that sways me is how it says on his Wikipedia article that he married the daughter of a Native American chief and had twins with her.