ĭespite their differences in social status, Edward still pursued his love for Caroline. Edward immediately fell in love with Caroline and asked her to meet again sometime, but she refused, as her father would not allow such a breach of social etiquette after having already promised her to Matthew Hague, the son of a prominent East India Company executive. Īt the age of seventeen, Edward met Caroline Scott, who intervened on his behalf during an altercation outside the Auld Shillelagh tavern, in which Edward was defending Rose, one of the Scott family's housemaids, from being raped by Tom Cobleigh. However, the pastoral life did not agree with Edward and he became a well-known troublemaker in his adolescence.
Įdward was born in Swansea, Wales, to Bernard and Linette Kenway at the age of ten, his family relocated to a farm in Bristol, in South West England. I want a decent life." ―Edward to Caroline, 1711. This vision alluded to the war that would continue for centuries afterwards between the Assassins and the Templars.
He quickly joined the British Assassins, rising up to the rank of Master Assassin, and eventually, leader. He soon acquired an estate in London and married Tessa Stephenson-Oakley, with whom he fathered a son named Haytham. He then joined the Assassin Order, hunted down the Templars in the region and entrusted the Observatory to the Assassins.Īfter a decade in the West Indies, Edward returned to Britain and received a pardon from Robert Walpole.
After losing nearly all of his closest friends, he realized the folly of his quest for glory. Over the next few years, Edward struggled with the internal conflict that arose from his desire for fame and riches-through finding the Observatory-and his duty to his friends. It was during this quest that Edward first encountered the Assassins and Templars, and became embroiled in their struggle. However, an abrupt end to the War of the Spanish Succession and the promise of gold, glory and fame eventually seduced him into a life of piracy. He became a privateer for the Royal Navy early in his life and, once accepted, found himself stationed in the West Indies. Edward James Kenway (1693 – 1735) was a Welsh-born British privateer-turned- pirate and a member of the West Indies and British Brotherhoods of Assassins.īorn to humble farmers, Edward always sought to acquire riches and fame.