Edmund of Munich (died 1182) was the Marshall of the Knights Templar.
Biography[]
Edmund of Munich was born in Germany, a subject of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1174 he joined the Knights Templar organization in the Holy Land and became the Marshall of the Templars, second only to the Master. Edmund had initial success as a general of the Templars and Jerusalem, inflicting a defeat on a force of Muslim Mutatawwi’ya at Hebron in 1178, launching an infamous mass execution of the Saracen captives. In 1182, he attempted to follow up this success by laying siege to the Egyptian-held city of Ascalon (Ashkelon), but he was captured in the battle along with many other Templars. He was held for ransom, but when King Baldwin IV refused to pay it, he was hung along with the rest of the captives.