During the events of Episode 1, Darth Plagueis is still alive, although he is never mentioned or seen on screen (Plagueis wasn't killed until Palpatine was Chancellor). The Sith Lord we do see is of course Darth Sidious, his apprentice, who also had an apprentice, Darth Maul.
In the canon, does it mention that Darth Plagueis knew his apprentice had a secret apprentice of his own? Given the "Rule of Two", this would have been a nay nay to the Sith. Did he know and just not care or was this something he had no idea was going on?
Answer
If the expanded universe counts as canon to you...
From the Darth Plagueis novel and the Darth Maul Wookieepedia entry;
Though well trained in the ways of the Sith and a Sith assassin rather than a full apprentice, Maul was technically a violation of the Rule of Two because his own Master was at the time apprenticed to another, the Muun Sith Lord Darth Plagueis. Plagueis however, was fully aware of Maul's existence, and supported Sidious's decision to train him. The primary reason for Plagueis's support, despite the violation of the Rule of Two, was that Maul was trained to be expendable. As an assassin, he could perform high priority, boots-on-the-ground missions for the Sith without running the risk of exposing either Plagueis or Sidious should he fail.
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A year after Maul was given over to the Sith, Sidious was granted permission from his own Master to train him as an apprentice. Plagueis, however, instructed Sidious not to give away their most treasured secrets to the Dathomirian; Maul was to be trained as a Sith assassin, not a Sith Lord like Plagueis and Sidious.1
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