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===The Brotherhood and the [[Black Templars]]===

The tense relationship between these two loyalist chapters can be traced to an event where the Black Templars and the Brotherhood of the Gauntlet had assaulted a planet that had seceded from Imperial Rule called Jerus II, in a system relatively close to the Segmentum Solar.

The Brotherhood of the Gauntlet had assaulted the planet to retake it and recover a supposed artefact of their chapter that had been absconded with by the renegade planetary leader, who had slain a representative of the chapter through treachery and claimed an old keep of the Brotherhood. The Black Templars were also situated near the planet and heard of the heresy being committed, they landed on the planet and did what they do excelled at: Scourged and destroyed all heretics in the name of the Emperor, no pity, no remorse. The Brotherhood landed and saw the carnage left in the wake of the Templars, and asked if the severity of the assault was necessary. The castellan answered the commander of the Brotherhood with a simple response and did not deign to expand further to the chapter, the response was; 'They are Heretics, and must be returned to the graces of the emperor by the mercy of the blade'. This response to the Brotherhood did not seem suitable to them.

After the destruction of most of the rogue governor's forces, they attack him. He was using the keep of the Brotherhood as a base to use Imperial civilians as human shields. The Black Templars commenced a zealous assault, leaving no civilians or heretics alive in the keep and destroying most of it's structure.

The Brotherhood holds resentment for the Templars for their callous disregard of the people of the planet, and their property. They also feel slighted because the Templars killed the arch-heretics who they believed it was their right to slay. To further extenuate circumstances, a Malak of the Brotherhood of the Gauntlet and the Black Templar Crusade's Emperor's Champion had both engaged the heretic, but the Emperor's Champion slew him and in the process badly damaged the Malak of the Brotherhood.