Garnier de Nablus

Fra ' Garnier de Nablus (French: Garnier de Naplouse, Latin: Garnerius de Neapolis Syriae ) ( † 1192 ) was from 1189/90 until his death in the tenth Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.

He was born in Nablus in Syria. He belonged to the originating from Picardy noble family of Milly, the Lords of Nablus and Oultrejordain were within the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Perhaps he was a younger brother of the Templar Grand Master Philip of Nablus.

Garnier was used within the Order of St. John from 1173 to 1176 as caretaker of the castle Gibelin, from 1176 to 1177 and again from 1180 to 1184 he was head of the hospital in Jerusalem. D' Avity reported that he fell at the Battle of Hattin in 1187, in which the fate of Jerusalem and ruled large parts of Outremer again to Muslims participated and had a hard time wounded one of the few knights of the Order can save to Ashkelon. 1189 he was Prior of England and Great Commander of France.

As the Order in Palestine gathered to support the siege of Acre, Garnier was elected at the end 1189 or early 1190 to the Grand Master. As such, he accompanied the English king Richard the Lionheart and his army at the Third Crusade to Palestine, where he arrived in June 1191 where the local religious troops joined the crusade army. Acre was captured in July 1191 in September led Garnier religious contingent in the victorious battle of Arsuf on. In the struggle for the throne between Guy of Lusignan and Conrad of Montferrat he was on the protégé of Richard the Lionheart Guido page. This about the order suitable part of its newly acquired lands in and around Acre.

He died August to December 1192 probably in Acre. His successor as Grand Master was Geoffroy de Donjon.

Trivia

It occurs in the video game Assassin 's Creed and is murdered by the protagonist. In the game however, it is presented as an unfeeling doctor, who, after he was banished from France, in Acre innocent people abused for cruel experiments.