Troyes

"Giovanni's enemies will stop at nothing to get us. Troyes is their nest. It was here that their Order was made public, centuries ago."

―Maria Amiel, 1527.

A street in Troyes

Troyes is a city in France. It was the location where the Templars officially made themselves public as the Order of the Knights Templar, in 1129. After the end of the Templars as a knightly order, the city still served as one of their bases.

History

In the early 16th century, the Italian Assassin Giovanni Borgia, along with his companion Maria Amiel, visited Troyes, in the search for a Templar known only as "the Viper". Aware of the dangers that staying in a city controlled by his enemies brought, Giovanni rented a single room for himself and Maria, but refused to sleep during the night they stayed there.

The following day, Giovanni and Maria visited Troyes Cathedral, where they were quickly identified by the Viper, who had studied their appearances in Basel. The Viper then came over to Maria and began speaking to her, whispering in her ear, but Giovanni quickly approached from behind and assassinated him. Afterwards, the pair left the town immediately, as they were pursued by several enraged Templars.

In 1740, the British Templars' Grand Master Reginald Birch took over the Droupt-Saint-Basle chateau near Troyes and used it as a base of operations. He lived there with his protégé Haytham Kenway, who trained on the chateau's grounds. When Haytham learned that Birch was responsible for the attack on the attack on the Kenway Mansion in Queen Anne's Square that resulted in his father Edward's death, Haytham attacked the chateau in 1757 with his half-sister Jennifer Scott and Jim Holden. During the attack, Birch and his henchmen were killed, and Haytham would reside there with Jennifer and Holden for a brief while.

Gallery

Reginald Birch's chateau near Troyes

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (first appearance)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (mentioned only)
• Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
• Echoes of History – Assassins vs Templars (mentioned only)