A Crusader Murder Mystery: The Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (By Real Assassins)

'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - A podcast by Richard Abels

Send us a textOn April 28, 1192 the newly elected king of Jerusalem Conrad of Montferrat was assassinated in the streets of the city of Tyre by two Assassins, the name by which the Crusaders knew the Nizari Isma'ili Shi'a sect in Syria. The killers had acted in obedience to the leader of the Assassins, the Old Man of the Mountain Rashid al-Din Sinan. That much is known. On whose behalf the Old Man of the Mountain acted, however, was and remains an open question. In this epis...