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"Find them, kill them. In doing so, you will sow the seeds of peace."
―Al Mualim to Altaïr, 1191.[src]
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Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinating a target

Assassination targets were individuals that the Assassin Order – and in select instances, the Templar Order – deemed worthy of elimination. Over the centuries, the Assassins killed many individuals they believed to be corrupt and a danger to humanity, particularly Templars and their associates.

Below is a chronological list of notable victims, by faction and assassin responsible.

Elimination by Assassins

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Around the time of the Third Crusade, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad assassinated various individuals during his quest to find the Chalice in 1190. He later eliminated nine tyrannical public figures in an effort to restore his lost rank and regain honor within the Assassin Order.

Following his ascension to Mentor of the Order, he carried out several assassinations to aid the Cypriot Resistance in 1192, and continued to eliminate notable targets throughout his life.

  • Tamir[3]
  • Garnier de Naplouse[3]
  • Talal[3]
  • Abu'l Nuqoud[3]
  • William of Montferrat[3]
  • Majd Addin[3]
  • Sibrand[3]
  • Jubair al Hakim[3]
  • Robert de Sable[3]
  • Rashid ad-Din Sinan[3]
  • Emin[4]
  • Frederick the Red[4]

  • Moloch – 1192[4]
  • Dark Oracle – 1192[4]
  • Telemachos – 1192[4]
  • Shalim – 1192[4]
  • Shahar – 1192[4]
  • Pirate Captain – 1193[4]
  • Armand Bouchart – 1193[4]

  • Swami – 1227[1]
  • Bayhas – 1247[5]
  • Abbas Sofian – 1247[1]

    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze

    During the Renaissance, the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinated various individuals in order to avenge the deaths of his family members, free the Spanish Assassins, and liberate the Italian cities of Florence, Venice, and Rome from corruption.

  • Jacopo de' Pazzi – 1480[6]
  • Emilio Barbarigo – 1485[6]
  • Carlo Grimaldi – 1485[6]
  • Marco Barbarigo – 1486[6]
  • Silvio Barbarigo – 1486[6]
  • Dante Moro – 1486[6]
  • Ludovico Orsi – 1488[7]
  • Checco Orsi – 1488[7]

  • Gaspar Martínez – 1491[8]
  • Pedro Llorente – 1491[8]
  • Juan de Marillo – 1492[8]
  • The Painter – 1497[9]
  • The Guard Captain – 1497[9]
  • The Nobleman – 1497[9]
  • The Priest – 1497[9]
  • The Merchant – 1497[9]
  • The Doctor – 1497[9]
  • The Farmer – 1497[9]
  • The Condottiero – 1497[9]
  • The Preacher – 1497[9]
  • Girolamo Savonarola – 1498[9]

  • Il Carnefice – 1500[10]
  • Iacopo de Grassi – 1500[10]
  • Belardino da Verona – 1500[10]
  • Prospero da Siena – 1500[10]
  • Valentino da Siena – 1500[10]
  • Tommaso di Viterbo – 1500[10]
  • Pietro da Siena – 1500[10]
  • Domenico da Padova – 1500[10]
  • Francesco da Velletri – 1500[10]
  • Master of the Sacred Palace – 1500[10]
  • Battista Borgia – 1500[10]
  • Malfatto, via an apprentice – 1502[10]
  • Silvestro Sabbatini, via an apprentice – 1502[10]
  • Luigi Torcelli – 1503[10]
  • Juan Borgia the Elder – 1503[10]
  • Lanz – 1503[10]
  • Auguste Oberlin – 1503[10]
  • Ristoro – 1503[10]
  • Gaspar de la Croix – 1503[10]
  • Lia de Russo – 1503[10]
  • Donato Mancini – 1503[10]
  • Charles de la Motte – 1503[11]
  • Antonio da Fiorentino – 1503[10]
  • Ferdinando di Napoli – 1503[10]
  • Ippolito di Foligno – 1503[10]
  • Octavian de Valois – 1503[10]
  • Ercole Massimo – 1506[12]
  • Cesare Borgia – 1507[10]

  • Leandros – 1511[1]
  • Halim – 1511[1]
  • Vali cel Tradat, via an Apprentice – 1511[1]
  • Cyril of Rhodes – 1511[1]
  • Mirela Djuric – 1511[1]
  • Georgios Kostas, via an Apprentice – 1511[1]
  • Odai Dunqas, via an Apprentice – 1511[1]
  • Damat Ali Pasha, via an Apprentice – 1511[1]
  • Lysistrata – 1511[1]
  • Tarik Barleti – 1511[1]
  • Shahkulu – 1512[1]
  • Manuel Palaiologos – 1512[1]

    • Edward Kenway

    Edward Kenway, father of Haytham Kenway and grandfather of Ratonhnhaké:ton, assassinated several individuals during the Golden Age of Piracy in his quest for riches and glory, and later in service of the Assassin Order.

  • Ruggiero Ferraro – 1721[14]
  • Bartholomew Roberts – 1722[14]
  • El Tiburón – 1722[14]
  • Laureano de Torres y Ayala – 1722[14]
  • Emmett Scott – 1723[13]
  • Wilson – 1723[13]

    • Aveline de Grandpré

    Aveline de Grandpré assassinated various targets between the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War in an effort to free New Orleans from Templar influence and liberate victims of the slave trade.

  • Salmon – 1771[15]
  • Marcantell – 1771[15]
  • Chapperon – 1771[15]
  • De Chevallier – 1771[15]
  • Bouché – 1771[15]
  • Diego Vázquez – 1776[15]
  • George Davidson – 1777[15]
  • Madeleine de L'Isle – 1777[15]
  • Edmund Judge – 1784[14]

    • Ratonhnhaké:ton

    Before, during, and after the events of the American Revolutionary War, the Assassin Ratonhnhaké:ton eliminated various Templars in order to protect his tribe and further the pursuit of freedom for the citizens of the thirteen colonies of the United States.

    Following a meeting with George Washington, Ratonhnhaké:ton found himself in an alternate reality created by an Apple of Eden. He assassinated several individuals while experiencing the alternate timeline.

  • Haytham Kenway – 1781[16]
  • Charles Lee – 1782[16]

  • Benedict Arnold[17]
  • Israel Putnam[18]
  • John Fitzwilliams[19]
  • George Washington[19]

    • Arno Dorian

    Following the death of his adoptive father, the Templar Grand Master François de la Serre, Arno joined the Assassin Brotherhood and embarked on a quest to find the perpetrators of the murder and their motivations.

    While pursuing his own agenda, Arno also undertook several missions in order to thwart the efforts of the Templars, who tried to take control of the French Revolution.

    Desmond Miles

    Following his kidnapping by Abstergo Industries and training with the Assassins, Desmond was forced by Juno to assassinate Lucy Stillman in the Colosseum Vault. He later infiltrated the Abstergo Industries headquarters in Rome and assassinated two prominent members of their Order.

    Other Assassins

    Below is a chronological list of other notable assassinations, by century and, if known, Assassin responsible:

  • Caligula, by Leonius – 41[6]

  • Faustinus, by Aquilus – 259[21]
  • Caïus Fulvus Vultur, by Aquilus – 259[22]

  • Masun, by Rashid ad-Din Sinan – 1191[3]

  • Jochi Khan, by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad – 1227[11]
  • Genghis Khan, by Qulan Gal and Darim Ibn-La'Ahad – 1227[6][5]
  • Chagatai Khan, by Qulan Gal – 1241[11]
  • Ögedei Khan, by Nergüi – 1241[11]
  • Alexander Nevsky, by Nergüi – 1263[11]
  • Hülegü Khan, by Nergüi – 1265[11]

  • Benedict XI, by Guillaume de Nogaret – 1304[20]
  • Jacques de Molay's advisor, by Thomas de Carneillon – 1307[20]
  • Bachir Al-Djallil, by Numa Al'Khamsin – 1340[23]

  • Yongle, by Li Tong – 1424[24]
  • Vlad Tepes – 1476[1]
  • Cem – 1495[25]
  • Perotto Calderon – 1498[26]
  • Tomás de Torquemada – 1498[6]

  • Agostino Barbarigo, by Tessa Varzi – 1501[26]
  • Cahin – 1503[26]
  • Caha – 1503[26]
  • Rocco Tiepolo – 1503[26]
  • Baltasar de Silva – 1503[26]
  • Margaret of York, – 1503[10]
  • Isabella I of Castile – 1504[10]
  • Niccolò di Pitigliano, by Francesco Vecellio – 1510[26]
  • Francisco – 1511[1]
  • Juan Ponce de León – 1521[24]
  • The Viper, by Giovanni Borgia – 1527[26]
  • Francisco Pizarro – 1541[6]
  • Mary I of England – 1558[6]
  • Mōri Motonari, by Hattori Hanzō – 1571[11]
  • Uesugi Kenshin, by Hattori Hanzō – 1578[11]
  • Ivan Ivanovich of Russia – 1581[6]
  • Oda Nobunaga, by Yamauchi Taka – 1582[11]
  • Mochizuki Chiyome, by Hattori Hanzō – 1590s[11]
  • Toyotomi Hideyoshi, by Yamauchi Taka – 1598[11]
  • Shima Sakon, by Yamauchi Taka – 1600[11]

  • Abel Bramah, by Duncan Walpole – 1715[14]
  • Templar Admiral, by Adéwalé – 1735[27]
  • Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, by Adéwalé – 1737[27]
  • Lawrence Washington, by Shay Cormac – 1752[28]
  • Samuel Smith, by Shay Cormac – 1754[28]
  • James Wardrop, by Shay Cormac – 1754[28]
  • George Monro, by Liam O'Brien – 1757[28]
  • Richard Montgomery – 1775[16]
  • Johann Rall – 1776[16]
  • Friedrich Baum – 1777[16]
  • Carl Emilius von Donop – 1777[16]
  • George Dorrance – 1778[16]
  • John Boyd – 1779[16]
  • Hugh Jackson – 1779[16]
  • Johann de Kalb – 1780[16]
  • Hector McNeill – 1781[16]
  • Jonathan Trumbull – 1785[16]
  • Arpinon, by Pierre Bellec – 1791[20]
  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, by Pierre Bellec – 1791[20]
  • Jeannot Bullet, by Eseosa – 1791[29]

  • Charles Leclerc, by Eseosa – 1802[29]
  • John Wilkes Booth – 1865[6]
  • Alexander II of Russia – 1881[30][6]
  • Alexander III of Russia, by Nikolai Orelov – 1894 (of wounds sustained)[30]

  • Dolinsky – 1908[31]
  • Erich Albert – 1914[26]
  • Grigori Rasputin – 1916[6]
  • Khioniya Guseva, by Nikolai Orelov – 1917[26]
  • Adolf Hitler – 1945[6]
  • Joseph Stalin – 1953[6]
  • François Duvalier – 1971[6]

  • Galina Voronina's mother, by Galina Voronina – 2014[32]

    • Elimination by Templars

    Haytham Kenway

    Son of the Assassin Edward Kenway, Haytham was converted to the Templar cause at a young age by Reginald Birch. A member of the British Rite, he later became the Grand Master of the Colonial Rite.

    Shay Cormac

    Formerly a member of the Colonial Assassins, Shay later became a famous Assassin hunter after he joined the Templar Order, hunting down his former Assassin brothers and sisters.

  • Charles Dorian – 1776[28]

    • Other Templars

    Below is a chronological list of other notable assassinations, by century and, if known, Templar responsible:

  • Isaac Comnenus, by Armand Bouchart – c. 1191[4]
  • Osman, by Armand Bouchart – 1191[4]
  • Barnabas, by Armand Bouchart's agent – 1191[4]
  • Demetris, by Armand Bouchart's agent – 1192[4]
  • Alexander of Limassol, by Armand Bouchart's agent – 1193[4]

  • Dante Alighieri – 1321[6]
  • Marco Polo – 1324[6]
  • Al-Nasir Muhammad, by Leila – 1341[34]
  • Numa Al'Khamsin, by Leila - 1341[35]

  • Galeazzo Maria Sforza, by Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Gerolamo Olgiati, Carlo Visconti – 1476[36]
  • Giovanni Auditore da Firenze – 1476[6]
  • Giuliano de' Medici, by Francesco de' Pazzi and Bernardo Baroncelli – 1478[6]
  • Giovanni Mocenigo, by Carlo Grimaldi – 1485[6]
  • Juan Borgia the Younger, by Fiora Cavazza – 1497[37]
  • Mario Auditore, by Cesare Borgia – 1500[10]
  • Ramiro d'Orco – 1500[37]
  • Alfonso of Aragon, by Micheletto Corella – 1500[10]

  • Giulio Cesare da Varano, by Micheletto Corella – 1502[10]
  • Astorre III Manfredi, by Micheletto Corella – 1502[10]
  • Oliverotto da Fermo, by Micheletto Corella – 1502[10][37]
  • Vitellozzo Vitelli, by Micheletto Corella – 1502[10][37]
  • Francesco Troche, by Micheletto Corella – 1503[10]
  • Rodrigo Borgia, by Cesare Borgia – 1503[10]
  • Micheletto Corella, by Cesare Borgia – 1506[38]
  • Theodorus Komnenos, by Odai Dunqas – 1511[1]

  • Tom Cobleigh, by Wilson – 1713[13]
  • Samuel Bellamy – 1717[39]
  • Barnes, by Christopher Condent – 1717[39]
  • Howell Davis – 1719[14]
  • Edward Kenway, by mercenaries in the employ of Reginald Birch – 1735[33]
  • Jack Digweed, by Reginald Birch – 1747[33]
  • Vendredi, by Lawrence Washington – 1751[28]
  • Silas Thatcher, by Benjamin Church – 1754[16]
  • Philippe de Grandpré, by Madeleine de L'Isle – 1776[15]
  • May Carroll, by Élise de la Serre – 1788[40]
  • François de la Serre, by Charles Gabriel Sivert and Le Roi des Thunes – 1789[20]
  • Hook, by Élise de la Serre – 1789[40]
  • Harvey, by Élise de la Serre – 1789[40]
  • Le Fanu – 1790[40]
  • Élise de la Serre, by François-Thomas Germain – 1794[20]
  • Bernard Ruddock, by Frederick Weatherall – 1794[40]

  • Ranjit Singh, by Francis Cotton and William Hay Macnaghten – 1839[41]

  • Harry Houdini – 1926[42]
  • Mahatma Gandhi – 1948[42]
  • Harry Dexter White – 1948[43]
  • Jack Parsons – 1952[26]
  • Alan Turing – 1954[43]
  • John F. Kennedy, by Lee Harvey Oswald – 1963[42]
  • The Mentor, by Daniel Cross – 2000[44]

  • Hannah Mueller, by Daniel Cross – 2011[16]
  • Janice, by Daniel Cross – 2012[45]
  • Siobhan Dhami, by a special ops team led by Juhani Otso Berg – 2013[41]
  • Dinesh, by a special ops team led by Juhani Otso Berg – 2013[41]

    • Survivors

    In carrying out their missions, some Assassins notably spared potential victims, or otherwise did not complete an assassination as directed. The following is a chronological list of targets known to have survived encounters with Assassin attackers:

    • Maria Thorpe – spared by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, 1191[3]
    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze – failed by Templars, during the 15th and the 16th centuries[6][10][1]
    • Tomás de Torquemada – escaped from Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1492[8]
    • Rodrigo Borgia – spared by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1499[6]
    • Micheletto Corella – spared by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, 1503[10]
    • Charles Vane – spared by Edward Kenway, 1719[14]
    • Woodes Rogers – survived attack by Edward Kenway, 1721[14]
    • Matthew Hague – spared by Edward Kenway, 1723[13]
    • Shay Cormac – failed by Assassins, between 1756-1760[28]
    • Achilles Davenport – spared by Haytham Kenway, 1760[28]
    • Antonio de Ulloa – spared by Aveline de Grandpré, 1768[15]
    • Benedict Arnold – failed by apprentices, 1781[16]
    • Benjamin Franklin – spared by Ratonhnhaké:ton, in alternate reality[18]

    Interceptions

    On occasion, the Assassins and Templars saved individuals from being killed. The following is a list of targets, the individuals who wanted their death and the person that saved them:

    References

    1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 Assassin's Creed: Revelations
    2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
    3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Assassin's Creed
    4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
    5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
    6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 6.25 6.26 6.27 6.28 6.29 6.30 6.31 6.32 6.33 6.34 6.35 6.36 6.37 Assassin's Creed II
    7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Assassin's Creed II - Battle of Forlì
    8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
    9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 Assassin's Creed II - Bonfire of the Vanities (DLC)
    10. ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 10.17 10.18 10.19 10.20 10.21 10.22 10.23 10.24 10.25 10.26 10.27 10.28 10.29 10.30 10.31 10.32 10.33 10.34 10.35 10.36 10.37 10.38 10.39 10.40 10.41 10.42 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Brotherhood" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Brotherhood" defined multiple times with different content
    11. ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 Assassin's Creed: Memories
    12. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - The Da Vinci Disappearance
    13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Assassin's Creed: Black Flag novel
    14. ↑ 14.00 14.01 14.02 14.03 14.04 14.05 14.06 14.07 14.08 14.09 14.10 14.11 14.12 14.13 14.14 14.15 14.16 14.17 14.18 14.19 14.20 14.21 14.22 14.23 14.24 14.25 14.26 14.27 14.28 14.29 14.30 14.31 14.32 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
    15. ↑ 15.00 15.01 15.02 15.03 15.04 15.05 15.06 15.07 15.08 15.09 15.10 15.11 15.12 15.13 15.14 15.15 Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
    16. ↑ 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 16.11 16.12 16.13 16.14 16.15 16.16 16.17 16.18 16.19 16.20 16.21 16.22 16.23 16.24 16.25 16.26 16.27 16.28 16.29 Assassin's Creed III
    17. ↑ Assassin's Creed III - The Tyranny of King Washington: The Infamy
    18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Assassin's Creed III - The Tyranny of King Washington: The Betrayal
    19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Assassin's Creed III - The Tyranny of King Washington: The Redemption
    20. ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.13 20.14 20.15 20.16 20.17 20.18 20.19 20.20 20.21 20.22 20.23 20.24 20.25 20.26 Assassin's Creed: Unity
    21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus
    22. ↑ Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter
    23. ↑ Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk
    24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Assassin's Creed: Discover Your Legacy
    25. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel
    26. ↑ 26.00 26.01 26.02 26.03 26.04 26.05 26.06 26.07 26.08 26.09 26.10 Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy
    27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry
    28. ↑ 28.00 28.01 28.02 28.03 28.04 28.05 28.06 28.07 28.08 28.09 28.10 28.11 28.12 28.13 28.14 Assassin's Creed: Rogue
    29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 Assassin's Creed: Initiates - Letters to the Dead
    30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Assassin's Creed: The Fall #1
    31. ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Fall #2
    32. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates – Surveillance
    33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
    34. ↑ Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr
    35. ↑ Assassin's Creed 6: Leila
    36. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Lineage
    37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.3 Assassin's Creed: Ascendance
    38. ↑ 38.0 38.1 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)
    39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Assassin's Creed: Pirates
    40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 40.4 Assassin's Creed: Unity (novel)
    41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 Assassin's Creed: Brahman
    42. ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 Assassin's Creed II - Glyphs
    43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Rifts
    44. ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Fall #3
    45. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Initiates - The Desmond Files
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