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THE GOD KINGS OF EUROPE: Descent of Jesus in Odinic and Davidic lines
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The red and gold
field, symbolizing the plumage of the Phoenix - superimposed by
the white Star - are the Arms of the Vere, supported by two
Dragons they historically become one of the Seals of the House.
Red and gold are also the colors of other descendants of the
Merovingian dynasty, including the
Planagenets, the Mandevilles,
the Spencers and the Royal House of Scotland.
House of Plantagenet, also called house of Anjou or Angevin dynasty, royal house of England, which reigned from 1154 to 1485 and provided 14 kings, 6 of whom belonged to the cadet houses of Lancaster and York. The royal line descended from the union between Geoffrey, count of Anjou (d. 1151), and the empress Matilda, daughter of the English king Henry I.
Although well established, the surname Plantagenet has little historical justification. It seems to have originated as a nickname for Count Geoffrey and has been variously explained as referring to his practice of wearing a sprig of broom (Latin genista) in his hat or, more probably, to his habit of planting brooms to improve his hunting covers. It was not, however, a hereditary surname, and Geoffrey’s descendants in England remained without one for more than 250 years, although surnames became universal outside the royal family.
Some historians apply the name house of Anjou, or Angevin dynasty, to Henry II (who was also count of Anjou) and his 13 successors; other historians label only Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John, as the Angevin kings and, for want of a better name, label their successors, notably Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, as Plantagenets. The first official use of the surname Plantagenet by any descendant of Count Geoffrey occurred in 1460, when Richard, duke of York, claimed the throne as “Richard Plantaginet.”
Edward III’s numerous children and their marriages greatly affected English history. Edward’s heir, the “Black Prince,” left an only son, who succeeded his grandfather as Richard II, on whose death (1399) this line became extinct. Lionel, the next surviving son of Edward III, left an only child, Philippa, who married the Earl of March, in whose heirs was the right to the succession. But John of Gaunt, the next son, who had married the heiress of Lancaster and had been created duke of Lancaster in consequence, refounded the Lancastrian line, which obtained the throne in the person of his only son by her, Henry IV, on the deposition of Richard II. The next son of Edward III, Edmund of Langley, who was created duke of York (1385), founded the Yorkist line, and was father of two sons, Edward, second duke, who was slain at Agincourt, and Richard, earl of Cambridge, who by marrying the granddaughter and eventual heiress of Lionel’s daughter, Philippa, brought the right to the succession<script src="http://adserver.adtechus.com/addyn/3.0/5308.1/1371284/0/170/ADTECH;target=_blank;grp=826;key=true;kvqsegs=D,T,2888,2884,2777,2775,1799,1361,1360,1355,1353,1349,1347,1343,1342,1340;kvsource=history;kvtopicid=463365;kvchannel=HISTORY;misc=1311189375617"></script> into the house of York.
Between their son and Henry VI (grandson of Henry IV) and the sons and heirs of these rivals was fought out the dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses, which proved fatal to several members of both houses. It did not end until the last Yorkist king, Richard III, was defeated at Bosworth Field in 1485 by Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII and founder of the house of Tudor.
The legitimate male issue of the Plantagenet line became extinct with the execution in 1499 of Edward, earl of Warwick, grandson of Richard, duke of York.
House of Plantagenet, also called house of Anjou or Angevin dynasty, royal house of England, which reigned from 1154 to 1485 and provided 14 kings, 6 of whom belonged to the cadet houses of Lancaster and York. The royal line descended from the union between Geoffrey, count of Anjou (d. 1151), and the empress Matilda, daughter of the English king Henry I.
Although well established, the surname Plantagenet has little historical justification. It seems to have originated as a nickname for Count Geoffrey and has been variously explained as referring to his practice of wearing a sprig of broom (Latin genista) in his hat or, more probably, to his habit of planting brooms to improve his hunting covers. It was not, however, a hereditary surname, and Geoffrey’s descendants in England remained without one for more than 250 years, although surnames became universal outside the royal family.
Some historians apply the name house of Anjou, or Angevin dynasty, to Henry II (who was also count of Anjou) and his 13 successors; other historians label only Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John, as the Angevin kings and, for want of a better name, label their successors, notably Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, as Plantagenets. The first official use of the surname Plantagenet by any descendant of Count Geoffrey occurred in 1460, when Richard, duke of York, claimed the throne as “Richard Plantaginet.”
Edward III’s numerous children and their marriages greatly affected English history. Edward’s heir, the “Black Prince,” left an only son, who succeeded his grandfather as Richard II, on whose death (1399) this line became extinct. Lionel, the next surviving son of Edward III, left an only child, Philippa, who married the Earl of March, in whose heirs was the right to the succession. But John of Gaunt, the next son, who had married the heiress of Lancaster and had been created duke of Lancaster in consequence, refounded the Lancastrian line, which obtained the throne in the person of his only son by her, Henry IV, on the deposition of Richard II. The next son of Edward III, Edmund of Langley, who was created duke of York (1385), founded the Yorkist line, and was father of two sons, Edward, second duke, who was slain at Agincourt, and Richard, earl of Cambridge, who by marrying the granddaughter and eventual heiress of Lionel’s daughter, Philippa, brought the right to the succession<script src="http://adserver.adtechus.com/addyn/3.0/5308.1/1371284/0/170/ADTECH;target=_blank;grp=826;key=true;kvqsegs=D,T,2888,2884,2777,2775,1799,1361,1360,1355,1353,1349,1347,1343,1342,1340;kvsource=history;kvtopicid=463365;kvchannel=HISTORY;misc=1311189375617"></script> into the house of York.
Between their son and Henry VI (grandson of Henry IV) and the sons and heirs of these rivals was fought out the dynastic struggle known as the Wars of the Roses, which proved fatal to several members of both houses. It did not end until the last Yorkist king, Richard III, was defeated at Bosworth Field in 1485 by Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII and founder of the house of Tudor.
The legitimate male issue of the Plantagenet line became extinct with the execution in 1499 of Edward, earl of Warwick, grandson of Richard, duke of York.
Cross of Lorraine, Oak Leaves
Galahad, Solomon
Lia Fail
Dragon’s Deep
Background
Edmund Spenser is said to have flattered Queen Elizabeth I by referring to her as the ’fairy queen’ though it is equally possible that his was a veiled reference to the fairy wife of the alchemist, the Earl of Desmond at whose seat - Castle Matres - Spenser and Sir Walter Raleigh resided during an expedition to retrieve the Wizard’s library from a war zone on behalf of Dr. John Dee.
Castle Matres or Matrix as it is now known was said to have been named after the Matres or triple goddess. The castle rests on the banks of the river Deal in County Limerick and the library which was housed there is said to have contained singular works on Magic and Alchemy, works that Dee didn’t want, under any circumstances, falling into the Queen’s hands because, as Laurence Gardner has pointed out, Dr. John Dee, Edward de Vere, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare et al were well aware that Elizabeth’s house were badly bred usurpers and despite the descent from Margaret of Anjou, the blood wasn’t pure. I wonder what the boys would have made of the successive packs of kein-kultur, dynastic rabble that followed the Tudor Turnip Farmers.
Though Plantagenet descent and the fairy blood that ran in the veins of Edward III in particular, appears to have been greatly desired to legitimize the subsequent claims of the dynasties that superseded them, the Plantagenets themselves and Edward I in particular, looked to Scotland to legitimize their own claims to kingship. Scottish and Irish Dragon Kings were invested on the Stone of Scone.
This Stone - the Lia Fail - the Stone of Destiny (or Fate) of the Tuadha d’Anu once rested at the summit of the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the Elven High Kings in County Meath. When the Milesian Dalriada left Eire for Scotland it is believed that they took the Lia Fail with them.
Despite Edward I’s best efforts to conquer the Scots and wrest from them the Lia Fail - the ultimate symbol of royal legitimacy - thereby confirming, one suspects, his right to fairy kingship which, retrospectively he had anyway and was thus wasting his time, the Stone of the Elves never once rested under the gilded commode in Westminster Abbey.
Because the Raven-Stone of the Phoenicians wasn’t the Stone of Scone that Edward I stole, this fake lump of rock that the English thought was the Lia Fail was nonchalantly and unceremoniously driven up to Edinburgh Castle in the back of a Land Rover a couple of years ago. Even select members of the Order of the Golden Dawn knew this over a hundred years ago and descriptions of the Lia Fail can still be found in the literature of their successors.
Part of the later Plantagenet ancestry included the descendants of the Danish Jarl, Rollo Duke of Normandy. The senior Angevin dynasty - the Vere - also have the Viking Rollo as an ancestor in the female line.
The word ’ Viking’ has been explained in various ways. Originally spelt ’Wicking’ it was thought to derive from the word ’wic’ meaning the inlet or mouth of a Fjord, whilst the earlier meaning of the word from the Old Friesian and Old English had ’wic’ as an encampment. In Russia however the ’Vikhr’ was a whirlwind, a manifestation of the Zmei or Dragon king which is dealt with later.
The Vikhr is a character which is common to both the Russians and the Irish and it will be remembered that Russia was actually founded by the Viking Ruotsi Clan, intimating that the actual definition of the word ’Viking’ is the same as the Irish word ’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.
Anciently the Danes and the Danaan were closely related and an examination of the Royal Clan in both cultures will reveal the same egalitarian system of self regulation that distinguished the Danaan from the rest of Celtic society.
The similarity doesn’t end here. Like their Fairy cousins defenders in Ireland and Scotland, the Danes warriors were utterly indifferent to death and fought without mercy. Their overall belief system engendered behavior that appears to have been almost nihilistic and devoid of any moral conflict.
This system, based on the ’ Nine Worlds’ or emanations of being, was duplicated in earlier or contemporary variants of the Qabalah and Kaula Tantra. As with the former where the spheres or Sephirah were incorporated into the Hebrew ’Tree of Life’, the Viking spheres or worlds were thought to rest within the branches of a tree which, in the Norse, was called Yggdrasil, the World Ash Tree. Yggdrasil’s roots were embedded in Hel or the Underworld, whilst its branches brushed against the stars of Heaven.
Yggdrasil is a shamanic glyph which represents the macrocosm - the universe both subtle and material - and the microcosm - the human body. The tree glyph itself in all cultures represents the path the shaman takes, from the roots, embedded in matter, up the trunk and into the branches and the stars, to the rarified spiritual spheres and beyond, to unite with godhead itself.
Such a journey inevitably must transcend mundane care, fear, greed, opinion or morality, and he or she who embarks upon and completes such a journey successfully becomes united with the One Unmanifest, the True Will and the Total Self. As we shall see later, the Tree is actually a woman, a goddess incarnate or Avatar.
The individual who completes the journey is beyond mortal conditioning or the short-sighted relativity upon which is based human moral law. This system and its results duplicate themselves in many other mystical systems and in early witchcraft in particular.
Perhaps therefore, when considering the behavior or attitudes of the individuals in cultures like those of the Danes and the Danaan, it might be more apposite if scholars took more into account the effects that philosophical systems like these actually had on people like the Norse, and then rethought the etymology of the word ’Viking’ or ’Wiccing’, before settling on an answer that smacks of over-specialization.
In tandem with their Aryan Hindu cousins, the Vikings used the symbol of the swastika. An example of its utilization by the norse can be found in Iceland, whose early inhabitants emblazoned the blue swastika sacred to Kali Azura or ’blue Kali’, the sister of the Sumerian Cain or Qayin.
Variants of this figure, the hammer of Thor, fig 1, earlier a copper, single-headed labrys or tomahawk common to the Ubaid,, which is the shape of the fig 2 spinning and creating the vortex, the spiral storm or tornado, can also be found at numerous archaeological sites including Newgrange in its early spiralised form fig 3. This is the spiral design of the Sumaire of Sumeria. In its variant form fig 4 the swastika represents the curved Scythian sword reaping the whirlwind.
The swastika is also found reversed fig 5 and both forms respectively are thought to be moon and sun symbols respectively. As the author will continue to reiterate, when reading on such subjects, particularly in relation to the philosophy of the Druids and other Indo-European, Aryan philosophies, it is wise to bear in mind that the teachings and symbols operate on both the macro and microcosmic levels at the least. Often the symbolism is in fact multi-faceted.
In the case of the swastika the moon and the sun symbolism applies inasmuch as the sun radiates or pushes energy out whilst the moon draws energy to it in the form of the sun’s rays. Its gravitational field also pulls the tides. The fig 6 of Kali is the Sumaire, the whirlpool which is the sucker-in of blood and energy, like the moon draws the suns rays and sucks up the tides, whilst the fig 7, the solarswastika symbolizes the donor or benefactor who gives willingly of their essence.
If we look closely we will also notice that the circular swastika is the mark of Lilith given to Cain and also the mark of Kali. In their original form fig 10 they represent the scythe of the reaper, the Golden Sickle of the Druids spinning on its hilt. Therefore the fig 11 is also the fig12. The swastika has another three-armed formed which appears again at Newgrange and also as the badge of the fairy king Manannan Mac Lir,Lord of the isle of Man fig 13 and Lord of the Waters of the Sea. As fig 14 it compares to the dragon’s eye of the south ,fig 15 and also fig 16 the dragon’s eye of the north. In the northern hemisphere, mimicking the pull of the whirlpool, the rotation of these devices is to the left as you look at them, or clockwise from the point of view of the one summoning the sumaire in themselves.
If we think of the swastika as being a turbine, the position of the arms, either fig 17 or fig 18: or fig 19 or fig 20, indicates not the direction of rotation, but the angle at which the blades are set. The difference between the four and three armed swastika is that the four armed essentially represents the sowing or reaping of "the four winds", the pneuma, the spiritual or morphic energy, whilst the three armed cross, the swastika of Manannan of the waters, represents sowing (donating) or reaping (removing) the blood and waters of the Fountain of Life - The Holy Grail.
The pineal gland is so-called because it is similar in shape to a pine cone. The dragon’s eye fig 21 of the north looks similar to the plan view of a three sided pyramid and also represents the pineal gland that controls the secretion of the mystical fluids. In relation to the pineal gland the Grail is symbolized by the sacred head, the Baphomet or source of wisdom.
Related to the Solar disc and the Ajna chakra in Tantra, in Mithraism this stage of the Grail process is represented by the Dragon of the sun and so here the three armed swastika is the Dragon’s eye of the north fig 22 representing the pine cone shape of the pineal gland and also the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet Ayin fig 23 the 15th path of the Tarot - the Devil - and the number of Ishtar or Venus in the roll of the seniority of the Gods. The Ayin is the ’All Seeing Eye of God’ (Enki or Samael) peering both in and out of the void.
At the end of their journey from the brain, through its third ventrical, down the spinal column to the womb, graffenberg gland and urethra, here the fluids rest until naturally or manually discharged. The womb becomes the grail Cup containing the waters of life, the Cubic stone of the Philosophers. The Dragon’s eye of the south fig 24 = fig 25 - the Cup.
Thus the Grail, amongst other things, is both the Head and the Cup, and both ’eyes’ of the dragon - north and south - are the eyes that contain "The light that illumines the human spirit". It is also the pineal i - D, the Delta or Hebrew Daleth or Tau - The Doorway to the eternal.
In any form the swastika is an emblem of life, of breathing (the breath of ravens) and of self-sacrifice. As such therefore, the swastika is one of the primeval symbols of Priest-Kingship and Dragon Maidenhood. Greatly to be abhorred then is the fact that the Nazi Party of Germany hijacked the swastika of Kali and, along with numerous other fairy symbols, made it the most hated and feared glyph on the Planet.
The Death’s Head of the SS is the head of wisdom of the Templars - the Baphomet - whilst the Sig rune itself is the path of the serpent of wisdom descending the Tree of life. The red banner with the white circle and black swastika represents the bloody funeral ground of the Aryan saints, who gave the last drop of their life’s blood to Kali, represented by the white disc of the moon amidst the crimson field of the banner and whose swastika is the sumaire drawing life into it as the Moon draws the seas to her.
The red flag is thus intended to represent the self sacrificing Tantric priests of the Kaula Vama Marg shedding the last vestige of their egos and their lives, to be left drained. As empty vessels they were then ready to be filled with the wisdom of the Cosmos and with the power of the Siddhis.
In practice however the swastika represents the suffering of four million people sacrificed to the stupidity of a nation duped into thinking that a dysfunctional House Painter and a disaffected Chicken Farmer, leading a doomed race of potato peasants, could really be the vestige of the Aryan Peoples -Their so-called Master Race.
And feeling the pinch after the Weimar Republic had its debts called in who, fuelled by the politics of envy, wanted to keep the good times rolling by backing Mr. Adolf Menachim Schickelgruber, the Aryan God-Hero of the Teutons who would get rid of all those nasty Hebes and redistribute their wealth in the German people’s favor? Correct - the German bourgeoisie - the smug, Jew-hating, complacent bloody middle classes. It’s nice to have a readership that keeps itself informed in matters of contemporary history.
This Jewish Holocaust exactly replicates what happened to the Elven families for over a thousand years and for exactly the same reasons. Money and Power.
The Aryans, The Noble or Elven Race, were a king tribe and were Ubaid Sumerian-Scythian in origin. These Dragon Kings and Fairy Queens weren’t extensive in number, didn’t breed outside their caste and weren’t nationalists or racists. How the Germans ever thought they were all descended from them is beyond understanding.
The Fairy progeny, in small pockets, spanned the Earth from as far distant as Japan * to Scotland and they rarely mixed with the indigenous populations who invited their rule and their wisdom. Germans, like any other tribe would have had their Aryan caste to guide them but that doesn’t entitle a whole nation to consider itself Aryan.
* The Ainu of Hokkaido or North Island are a tall, fair-skinned Caucasoid people, thought to have been the original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands who were driven north by waves of immigrants from China, Korea and South Asia. The Ainu (pronounced: Eye-Noo) are animistic and shamanic and share many beliefs with the Amerindians and the Scythian druids concerning the nature of life. Their principal divine totem is the Swan.
During the 12th century the Ainu were almost extinct following continued hostilities with invaders. Their mythology tells them that their race was saved by a swan who descended from heaven and mated with the last living Ainu Lord. This coupling produced the Ainu who still occupy Hokkaido today.
The Swan Maidens are the Dragon Princesses of the Grail, the Scythian Druid Queens and the Nordic Andvarinauts. In Irish lore they can transform from swans into maidens and so, anthropologically speaking, it would appear, and the assertion is supported by academics, that the Ainu; born of the womb of a Swan Maiden: are of the Royal, Elven Dragon Blood - the Blood of Anu! The Ainu have dark hair and almond eyes and are distinctly Asian despite their complexions. Nevertheless, the remnant of the Ainu who retain pure blood, no more than 17,000 of them are left, are of Aryan extraction. So much for the 20th century blue eyed, blonde haired German fantasy. The pure, insular Ainu have more right to the epithet Aryan than any German chicken farmer ever had.
Well dressing
Yggdrasil , the Tree of Life of the Viking Kabala or Nine Worlds system, is coiled about at its base by the serpent-dragon Jormangrthe encircler. At Yggdrasil’s roots there is a pool. In Ireland, Scotland and Wales this symbol is repeated as the Hazel Tree by the well, in which lives the Salmon of Knowledge. Atop the branches of the Hazel tree there sits an eagle who drops a blood red nut of wisdom into the well 13 times a year. There it is consumed by the Salmon of Knowledge.
Because of this story, real wells and trees eventually became the focus of devoted rituals that we now now as well-dressing, a misunderstanding of the idea that the tree and the well were figurative and that their curative properties were obtained not from well water, but from something entirely different.
Because these waters were considered therapeutic and rejuvenating the wells were blessed and venerated and, one supposes in order to make the forgotten approximation closer to the reality of the symbol, the trees adjacent to these wells were decked in coloured patches of cloth. These symbolized the Chakras or Sephirah of the tree of life of the female body which the druids were really symbolizing in their use of the tree and the well glyph.
In the case of the Gaelic form of Yggdrasil, the nut of the Hazel represents the pineal discharge. Dropped by the eagle, representing the spirit or the Sun God Llew (the Ajna Chakra or Kether Sephiroth), it descends through the tree of life (like the lightning bolt of inspiration) and falls into the well or womb. Here it is consumed by the salmon of Knowledge. In the Irish story it is Nechtan (meaning ’pure one’) the God of ’waters’ who catches and eats the salmon, a euphemism for cunnilingus. Repeating the entreaty of the grail story however, it is only the pure one who may see or benefit from the ’Grail’, which is here, as anywhere else, the female genitalia and the mysterious essences they bestow.
This story and its variants can be found across Europe in one suppressed or hidden form or another. Whilst the eagle represents the spirit we are clear on the nature and identity of the secretions represented by the nut. The spirit was said to be located in the pineal gland by Descartes, who was repeating an ancient gaelic belief. The salmon however represents the vulva, resting at the ’bottom’ of (eg. beneath or below) the womb.
Both in contemporary and in classical and historical colloquialism the fish represents the female vulva. This usage is universal. If eating fish is said to be good for the brain, then eating Nechtan’s salmon takes on a whole new meaning for us. The fish crops up as a Christian symbol, that of Ichthys (meaning ’fish’ in Greek) which latter day Christians believe means Iesus Christos Theos, or ’Jesus Christ God’. And on the subject of fish and fish women or Mermaids, we enter the labyrinth. --Nicholas de Vere
“Go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and what a noble work she produces; whose labour kings and private men use for their health. She is desired and honoured by all, and, though weak in strength, yet since she values wisdom she prevails.” The title of ‘Beekeeper’ was held by Egyptian Pharaohs.
Edmund Spenser is said to have flattered Queen Elizabeth I by referring to her as the ’fairy queen’ though it is equally possible that his was a veiled reference to the fairy wife of the alchemist, the Earl of Desmond at whose seat - Castle Matres - Spenser and Sir Walter Raleigh resided during an expedition to retrieve the Wizard’s library from a war zone on behalf of Dr. John Dee.
Castle Matres or Matrix as it is now known was said to have been named after the Matres or triple goddess. The castle rests on the banks of the river Deal in County Limerick and the library which was housed there is said to have contained singular works on Magic and Alchemy, works that Dee didn’t want, under any circumstances, falling into the Queen’s hands because, as Laurence Gardner has pointed out, Dr. John Dee, Edward de Vere, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare et al were well aware that Elizabeth’s house were badly bred usurpers and despite the descent from Margaret of Anjou, the blood wasn’t pure. I wonder what the boys would have made of the successive packs of kein-kultur, dynastic rabble that followed the Tudor Turnip Farmers.
Though Plantagenet descent and the fairy blood that ran in the veins of Edward III in particular, appears to have been greatly desired to legitimize the subsequent claims of the dynasties that superseded them, the Plantagenets themselves and Edward I in particular, looked to Scotland to legitimize their own claims to kingship. Scottish and Irish Dragon Kings were invested on the Stone of Scone.
This Stone - the Lia Fail - the Stone of Destiny (or Fate) of the Tuadha d’Anu once rested at the summit of the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the Elven High Kings in County Meath. When the Milesian Dalriada left Eire for Scotland it is believed that they took the Lia Fail with them.
Despite Edward I’s best efforts to conquer the Scots and wrest from them the Lia Fail - the ultimate symbol of royal legitimacy - thereby confirming, one suspects, his right to fairy kingship which, retrospectively he had anyway and was thus wasting his time, the Stone of the Elves never once rested under the gilded commode in Westminster Abbey.
Because the Raven-Stone of the Phoenicians wasn’t the Stone of Scone that Edward I stole, this fake lump of rock that the English thought was the Lia Fail was nonchalantly and unceremoniously driven up to Edinburgh Castle in the back of a Land Rover a couple of years ago. Even select members of the Order of the Golden Dawn knew this over a hundred years ago and descriptions of the Lia Fail can still be found in the literature of their successors.
Part of the later Plantagenet ancestry included the descendants of the Danish Jarl, Rollo Duke of Normandy. The senior Angevin dynasty - the Vere - also have the Viking Rollo as an ancestor in the female line.
The word ’ Viking’ has been explained in various ways. Originally spelt ’Wicking’ it was thought to derive from the word ’wic’ meaning the inlet or mouth of a Fjord, whilst the earlier meaning of the word from the Old Friesian and Old English had ’wic’ as an encampment. In Russia however the ’Vikhr’ was a whirlwind, a manifestation of the Zmei or Dragon king which is dealt with later.
The Vikhr is a character which is common to both the Russians and the Irish and it will be remembered that Russia was actually founded by the Viking Ruotsi Clan, intimating that the actual definition of the word ’Viking’ is the same as the Irish word ’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.
Anciently the Danes and the Danaan were closely related and an examination of the Royal Clan in both cultures will reveal the same egalitarian system of self regulation that distinguished the Danaan from the rest of Celtic society.
The similarity doesn’t end here. Like their Fairy cousins defenders in Ireland and Scotland, the Danes warriors were utterly indifferent to death and fought without mercy. Their overall belief system engendered behavior that appears to have been almost nihilistic and devoid of any moral conflict.
This system, based on the ’ Nine Worlds’ or emanations of being, was duplicated in earlier or contemporary variants of the Qabalah and Kaula Tantra. As with the former where the spheres or Sephirah were incorporated into the Hebrew ’Tree of Life’, the Viking spheres or worlds were thought to rest within the branches of a tree which, in the Norse, was called Yggdrasil, the World Ash Tree. Yggdrasil’s roots were embedded in Hel or the Underworld, whilst its branches brushed against the stars of Heaven.
Yggdrasil is a shamanic glyph which represents the macrocosm - the universe both subtle and material - and the microcosm - the human body. The tree glyph itself in all cultures represents the path the shaman takes, from the roots, embedded in matter, up the trunk and into the branches and the stars, to the rarified spiritual spheres and beyond, to unite with godhead itself.
Such a journey inevitably must transcend mundane care, fear, greed, opinion or morality, and he or she who embarks upon and completes such a journey successfully becomes united with the One Unmanifest, the True Will and the Total Self. As we shall see later, the Tree is actually a woman, a goddess incarnate or Avatar.
The individual who completes the journey is beyond mortal conditioning or the short-sighted relativity upon which is based human moral law. This system and its results duplicate themselves in many other mystical systems and in early witchcraft in particular.
Perhaps therefore, when considering the behavior or attitudes of the individuals in cultures like those of the Danes and the Danaan, it might be more apposite if scholars took more into account the effects that philosophical systems like these actually had on people like the Norse, and then rethought the etymology of the word ’Viking’ or ’Wiccing’, before settling on an answer that smacks of over-specialization.
In tandem with their Aryan Hindu cousins, the Vikings used the symbol of the swastika. An example of its utilization by the norse can be found in Iceland, whose early inhabitants emblazoned the blue swastika sacred to Kali Azura or ’blue Kali’, the sister of the Sumerian Cain or Qayin.
Variants of this figure, the hammer of Thor, fig 1, earlier a copper, single-headed labrys or tomahawk common to the Ubaid,, which is the shape of the fig 2 spinning and creating the vortex, the spiral storm or tornado, can also be found at numerous archaeological sites including Newgrange in its early spiralised form fig 3. This is the spiral design of the Sumaire of Sumeria. In its variant form fig 4 the swastika represents the curved Scythian sword reaping the whirlwind.
The swastika is also found reversed fig 5 and both forms respectively are thought to be moon and sun symbols respectively. As the author will continue to reiterate, when reading on such subjects, particularly in relation to the philosophy of the Druids and other Indo-European, Aryan philosophies, it is wise to bear in mind that the teachings and symbols operate on both the macro and microcosmic levels at the least. Often the symbolism is in fact multi-faceted.
In the case of the swastika the moon and the sun symbolism applies inasmuch as the sun radiates or pushes energy out whilst the moon draws energy to it in the form of the sun’s rays. Its gravitational field also pulls the tides. The fig 6 of Kali is the Sumaire, the whirlpool which is the sucker-in of blood and energy, like the moon draws the suns rays and sucks up the tides, whilst the fig 7, the solarswastika symbolizes the donor or benefactor who gives willingly of their essence.
If we look closely we will also notice that the circular swastika is the mark of Lilith given to Cain and also the mark of Kali. In their original form fig 10 they represent the scythe of the reaper, the Golden Sickle of the Druids spinning on its hilt. Therefore the fig 11 is also the fig12. The swastika has another three-armed formed which appears again at Newgrange and also as the badge of the fairy king Manannan Mac Lir,Lord of the isle of Man fig 13 and Lord of the Waters of the Sea. As fig 14 it compares to the dragon’s eye of the south ,fig 15 and also fig 16 the dragon’s eye of the north. In the northern hemisphere, mimicking the pull of the whirlpool, the rotation of these devices is to the left as you look at them, or clockwise from the point of view of the one summoning the sumaire in themselves.
If we think of the swastika as being a turbine, the position of the arms, either fig 17 or fig 18: or fig 19 or fig 20, indicates not the direction of rotation, but the angle at which the blades are set. The difference between the four and three armed swastika is that the four armed essentially represents the sowing or reaping of "the four winds", the pneuma, the spiritual or morphic energy, whilst the three armed cross, the swastika of Manannan of the waters, represents sowing (donating) or reaping (removing) the blood and waters of the Fountain of Life - The Holy Grail.
The pineal gland is so-called because it is similar in shape to a pine cone. The dragon’s eye fig 21 of the north looks similar to the plan view of a three sided pyramid and also represents the pineal gland that controls the secretion of the mystical fluids. In relation to the pineal gland the Grail is symbolized by the sacred head, the Baphomet or source of wisdom.
Related to the Solar disc and the Ajna chakra in Tantra, in Mithraism this stage of the Grail process is represented by the Dragon of the sun and so here the three armed swastika is the Dragon’s eye of the north fig 22 representing the pine cone shape of the pineal gland and also the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet Ayin fig 23 the 15th path of the Tarot - the Devil - and the number of Ishtar or Venus in the roll of the seniority of the Gods. The Ayin is the ’All Seeing Eye of God’ (Enki or Samael) peering both in and out of the void.
At the end of their journey from the brain, through its third ventrical, down the spinal column to the womb, graffenberg gland and urethra, here the fluids rest until naturally or manually discharged. The womb becomes the grail Cup containing the waters of life, the Cubic stone of the Philosophers. The Dragon’s eye of the south fig 24 = fig 25 - the Cup.
Thus the Grail, amongst other things, is both the Head and the Cup, and both ’eyes’ of the dragon - north and south - are the eyes that contain "The light that illumines the human spirit". It is also the pineal i - D, the Delta or Hebrew Daleth or Tau - The Doorway to the eternal.
In any form the swastika is an emblem of life, of breathing (the breath of ravens) and of self-sacrifice. As such therefore, the swastika is one of the primeval symbols of Priest-Kingship and Dragon Maidenhood. Greatly to be abhorred then is the fact that the Nazi Party of Germany hijacked the swastika of Kali and, along with numerous other fairy symbols, made it the most hated and feared glyph on the Planet.
The Death’s Head of the SS is the head of wisdom of the Templars - the Baphomet - whilst the Sig rune itself is the path of the serpent of wisdom descending the Tree of life. The red banner with the white circle and black swastika represents the bloody funeral ground of the Aryan saints, who gave the last drop of their life’s blood to Kali, represented by the white disc of the moon amidst the crimson field of the banner and whose swastika is the sumaire drawing life into it as the Moon draws the seas to her.
The red flag is thus intended to represent the self sacrificing Tantric priests of the Kaula Vama Marg shedding the last vestige of their egos and their lives, to be left drained. As empty vessels they were then ready to be filled with the wisdom of the Cosmos and with the power of the Siddhis.
In practice however the swastika represents the suffering of four million people sacrificed to the stupidity of a nation duped into thinking that a dysfunctional House Painter and a disaffected Chicken Farmer, leading a doomed race of potato peasants, could really be the vestige of the Aryan Peoples -Their so-called Master Race.
And feeling the pinch after the Weimar Republic had its debts called in who, fuelled by the politics of envy, wanted to keep the good times rolling by backing Mr. Adolf Menachim Schickelgruber, the Aryan God-Hero of the Teutons who would get rid of all those nasty Hebes and redistribute their wealth in the German people’s favor? Correct - the German bourgeoisie - the smug, Jew-hating, complacent bloody middle classes. It’s nice to have a readership that keeps itself informed in matters of contemporary history.
This Jewish Holocaust exactly replicates what happened to the Elven families for over a thousand years and for exactly the same reasons. Money and Power.
The Aryans, The Noble or Elven Race, were a king tribe and were Ubaid Sumerian-Scythian in origin. These Dragon Kings and Fairy Queens weren’t extensive in number, didn’t breed outside their caste and weren’t nationalists or racists. How the Germans ever thought they were all descended from them is beyond understanding.
The Fairy progeny, in small pockets, spanned the Earth from as far distant as Japan * to Scotland and they rarely mixed with the indigenous populations who invited their rule and their wisdom. Germans, like any other tribe would have had their Aryan caste to guide them but that doesn’t entitle a whole nation to consider itself Aryan.
* The Ainu of Hokkaido or North Island are a tall, fair-skinned Caucasoid people, thought to have been the original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands who were driven north by waves of immigrants from China, Korea and South Asia. The Ainu (pronounced: Eye-Noo) are animistic and shamanic and share many beliefs with the Amerindians and the Scythian druids concerning the nature of life. Their principal divine totem is the Swan.
During the 12th century the Ainu were almost extinct following continued hostilities with invaders. Their mythology tells them that their race was saved by a swan who descended from heaven and mated with the last living Ainu Lord. This coupling produced the Ainu who still occupy Hokkaido today.
The Swan Maidens are the Dragon Princesses of the Grail, the Scythian Druid Queens and the Nordic Andvarinauts. In Irish lore they can transform from swans into maidens and so, anthropologically speaking, it would appear, and the assertion is supported by academics, that the Ainu; born of the womb of a Swan Maiden: are of the Royal, Elven Dragon Blood - the Blood of Anu! The Ainu have dark hair and almond eyes and are distinctly Asian despite their complexions. Nevertheless, the remnant of the Ainu who retain pure blood, no more than 17,000 of them are left, are of Aryan extraction. So much for the 20th century blue eyed, blonde haired German fantasy. The pure, insular Ainu have more right to the epithet Aryan than any German chicken farmer ever had.
Well dressing
Yggdrasil , the Tree of Life of the Viking Kabala or Nine Worlds system, is coiled about at its base by the serpent-dragon Jormangrthe encircler. At Yggdrasil’s roots there is a pool. In Ireland, Scotland and Wales this symbol is repeated as the Hazel Tree by the well, in which lives the Salmon of Knowledge. Atop the branches of the Hazel tree there sits an eagle who drops a blood red nut of wisdom into the well 13 times a year. There it is consumed by the Salmon of Knowledge.
Because of this story, real wells and trees eventually became the focus of devoted rituals that we now now as well-dressing, a misunderstanding of the idea that the tree and the well were figurative and that their curative properties were obtained not from well water, but from something entirely different.
Because these waters were considered therapeutic and rejuvenating the wells were blessed and venerated and, one supposes in order to make the forgotten approximation closer to the reality of the symbol, the trees adjacent to these wells were decked in coloured patches of cloth. These symbolized the Chakras or Sephirah of the tree of life of the female body which the druids were really symbolizing in their use of the tree and the well glyph.
In the case of the Gaelic form of Yggdrasil, the nut of the Hazel represents the pineal discharge. Dropped by the eagle, representing the spirit or the Sun God Llew (the Ajna Chakra or Kether Sephiroth), it descends through the tree of life (like the lightning bolt of inspiration) and falls into the well or womb. Here it is consumed by the salmon of Knowledge. In the Irish story it is Nechtan (meaning ’pure one’) the God of ’waters’ who catches and eats the salmon, a euphemism for cunnilingus. Repeating the entreaty of the grail story however, it is only the pure one who may see or benefit from the ’Grail’, which is here, as anywhere else, the female genitalia and the mysterious essences they bestow.
This story and its variants can be found across Europe in one suppressed or hidden form or another. Whilst the eagle represents the spirit we are clear on the nature and identity of the secretions represented by the nut. The spirit was said to be located in the pineal gland by Descartes, who was repeating an ancient gaelic belief. The salmon however represents the vulva, resting at the ’bottom’ of (eg. beneath or below) the womb.
Both in contemporary and in classical and historical colloquialism the fish represents the female vulva. This usage is universal. If eating fish is said to be good for the brain, then eating Nechtan’s salmon takes on a whole new meaning for us. The fish crops up as a Christian symbol, that of Ichthys (meaning ’fish’ in Greek) which latter day Christians believe means Iesus Christos Theos, or ’Jesus Christ God’. And on the subject of fish and fish women or Mermaids, we enter the labyrinth. --Nicholas de Vere
“Go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and what a noble work she produces; whose labour kings and private men use for their health. She is desired and honoured by all, and, though weak in strength, yet since she values wisdom she prevails.” The title of ‘Beekeeper’ was held by Egyptian Pharaohs.
The bee and the beehive are connected to Diana/Artemis/Hecate
worship. Hecate is depicted with snake feet and snakes for hair. Dogs,
the sacred animal of Hecate, were sacrificed to her in rituals during
the dark phrase of the moon. (Incidentally, Valentines day will fall on the dark phrase of this year 2010).
The ancient Egyptian word and hieroglyph for goddess als means serpent
and the hieroglyph for Sirius means tooth. The Egyptian word for tooth
also means dog and more specifically dog-god. This connection between honey and the dog/sirius will be seen in more detail below.
Bees & the Merovingian bloodline
From J.R. Church’s Guardians of the Grail:
In the tomb of Childeric I, son of Merovee, a special set of 300 miniature golden bees were found. Napoleon affixed these bees to his coronation robe. The Mormons use the symbol of the bee and also hold to the doctrine that Yahshua of Nazareth married Mary Magdalene. It is believed that the Merovingians used the bee symbol because of the connection to Samson. Samson was known for the power that came from his long hair. So too, the Merovingian kings were known as the long haired kings which claimed their hair was the source of their occult powers. King Merovee supposedly possessed magical powers and could heal by the laying on of hands and by touching the tassels on the bottom of their garments. Here we see the Merovingians associating themselves with Samson and the tallit and tsitsit worn by ancient Israelites.
It was taught that the Merovee had two fathers. Clodio, king of the Franks, and Neptune the beast from the sea. It is also believed that Merovee claimed descent from Odin. The Merovingians also claim descent from the Trojans whose founder was named Dardanus. Dardanus was the son of Zeus. Zeus was pictured as an eagle, but at other times as a serpent to whom offerings of honey were made. J.R. Church connects this to Dan who had the insignia of the serpent as well as the eagle. According to the book of 1 Maccabees 12:20-21 the Spartans were descendants of Abraham and brothers of the Jews in Israel at that time. Josephus wrote that the letters sent to the Jews from the Spartans were foursquare; and the symbol is an eagle, with a dragon in its claws. This is symbolism of Dan from which tribe Samson came.
During the Trojan – Spartan war the spartans used the ‘trojan horse’ to defeat the city of Troy. Aeneas, a Trojan prince escaped the city and went to Italy, where his children, Romulus and Remus founded Rome. Church states that over the centuries the Spartans migrated to Southern France and some of the Trojans migrated to Germany, Belgium and Northern France along the Danube river. That area eventually became known as Austrasia in the province of Lorraine. The lineage of the Merovingian kings, therefore, may have been rooted in the Trojans.
Tribe of Dan & the serpent seed
Guardians of the Grail pg 109
“Four symbols are used in the Bible concerning the Danites – a serpent, an eagle, a lion, and the bees. In the story of Samons, we find the famous riddle of the bees who made honey in the carcass of a lion which had been killed by Samson. the symbolic nature of the bees could represent the concept that the descendants of the tribe of Dan would one day try to bring about the destruction of the tribe of Judah, whose symbol was the lion, and from the carcass of the lion the tribe of Dan would attempt to produce the golden age of a world empire, symbolized by the honey. The Merovingian claim of coming from the tribe of Judah (through Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ) is not true. The lie may have been advanced because the symbol of Judah was the lion. However, I believe the Merovingians were from the tribe of Dan.”
Gen 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Gen 49:17 Let Dan be a serpent on the way, a horned snake on the path that bites the horses’ heels, and its rider falls backward.
In the apocryphal writing of the Testament of Dan it states “I read in the book of Enoch, the Righteous, that your prince is satan.”
Guardians of the Grail pg 120
“Aside from the fact that the Spartans wore long hair as a symbol of their power (like Samson) there is a legend written about the son of Belus, king of the Spartans — in which is given the story of on named ‘Danaus,’ who arrived in Greece with his daughters by ship. According to the legend his daughters called themselves Danades. They introduced the cult of the mother goddess, which became the established religion of the Arcadians and developed over the years into the worship of Diana.”
The Holy Grail
John Gill commentary on Amos 5:26
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves; or the star “your god” (q); meaning the same with Chiun or Saturn; perhaps the same with the star that fell from the air or sky*, mentioned by Sanchoniatho (r); which Astarte (Diana), the wife of Chronus or Saturn, is said to take and consecrate in Tyre; this they made for themselves, and worshipped as a deity. *This is important to note in that it connects to the ‘Holy Grail’.
Holy Blood Holy Grail pg 297
Quoting from Perlesvaus pg. 359
“Well I know that many brave knights dwell with the Grail at Munsalvaesche. Always when they ride out, as they often do, it is to seek adventure. They do so for their sins, these templars, whether their reward be defeat or victory. A valiant hose lives there, and I will tell you how they are sustained. They live from a stone of purest kind. If you know not know it, it shall here be named to you. It is called lapsit exillis. By the power of that stone the phoenix burns to ashes, but the ashes give him life again. Thus does the phoenix molt and change its plumage, which afterward is bright and shining and as lovely as before. There never was a human so ill but that, if he on day sees that stone, he cannot die within the week that follows. And in looks he will not fade. His appearance wills tay the same as when the best years of his life began, and though he should see the stone for two hundred years, it will never change, save that his hair might perhaps turn gray. Such power does the stone give a man that flesh and bones are at once made young again. The stone is called the Grail.”click here
“Lapsit exillis might be a corruption of lapis ex caelis– ‘stone from the heavens.’ It might also be a corruption of lapsit ex caelis – ‘it fell from heaven’; or of lapis lapsus ex caelus- ‘a stone fallen from heaven; or, finally, of lapis elixir -the fabulous Philosopher’s Stone of alchemy.”…The Philosopher’s stone will need to be discussed in more detail in a future study, but it points to the ‘evolution of man’ into a ‘god.’ DNA is a stone, when it is mixed with the ’stone’ from heaven the ‘Holy Grail’ or transformation is attained. The return of the age of Saturn. The age of Aquarius. The golden age of the ‘gods.’
Guardians of the Grail pg 43-44
“Trevor Ravenscroft writes in the Cup of Destiny that Percival rides through the constellations of the zodiac in his quest for the golden cup. His destination is Aries, where lies the castle of the Holy Grail. According to the doctrine of the ancient mystery cult, as he enters the Grail castle, he is entering the mystery world of the human body, the brain. It is there that ‘the stone of light’ resides. The stone is supposedly the pineal gland, located at the base of the brain. It is at the so-called ‘center of man’s consciousness’.” http://littleguyintheeye.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/
From J.R. Church’s Guardians of the Grail:
In the tomb of Childeric I, son of Merovee, a special set of 300 miniature golden bees were found. Napoleon affixed these bees to his coronation robe. The Mormons use the symbol of the bee and also hold to the doctrine that Yahshua of Nazareth married Mary Magdalene. It is believed that the Merovingians used the bee symbol because of the connection to Samson. Samson was known for the power that came from his long hair. So too, the Merovingian kings were known as the long haired kings which claimed their hair was the source of their occult powers. King Merovee supposedly possessed magical powers and could heal by the laying on of hands and by touching the tassels on the bottom of their garments. Here we see the Merovingians associating themselves with Samson and the tallit and tsitsit worn by ancient Israelites.
It was taught that the Merovee had two fathers. Clodio, king of the Franks, and Neptune the beast from the sea. It is also believed that Merovee claimed descent from Odin. The Merovingians also claim descent from the Trojans whose founder was named Dardanus. Dardanus was the son of Zeus. Zeus was pictured as an eagle, but at other times as a serpent to whom offerings of honey were made. J.R. Church connects this to Dan who had the insignia of the serpent as well as the eagle. According to the book of 1 Maccabees 12:20-21 the Spartans were descendants of Abraham and brothers of the Jews in Israel at that time. Josephus wrote that the letters sent to the Jews from the Spartans were foursquare; and the symbol is an eagle, with a dragon in its claws. This is symbolism of Dan from which tribe Samson came.
During the Trojan – Spartan war the spartans used the ‘trojan horse’ to defeat the city of Troy. Aeneas, a Trojan prince escaped the city and went to Italy, where his children, Romulus and Remus founded Rome. Church states that over the centuries the Spartans migrated to Southern France and some of the Trojans migrated to Germany, Belgium and Northern France along the Danube river. That area eventually became known as Austrasia in the province of Lorraine. The lineage of the Merovingian kings, therefore, may have been rooted in the Trojans.
Tribe of Dan & the serpent seed
Guardians of the Grail pg 109
“Four symbols are used in the Bible concerning the Danites – a serpent, an eagle, a lion, and the bees. In the story of Samons, we find the famous riddle of the bees who made honey in the carcass of a lion which had been killed by Samson. the symbolic nature of the bees could represent the concept that the descendants of the tribe of Dan would one day try to bring about the destruction of the tribe of Judah, whose symbol was the lion, and from the carcass of the lion the tribe of Dan would attempt to produce the golden age of a world empire, symbolized by the honey. The Merovingian claim of coming from the tribe of Judah (through Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ) is not true. The lie may have been advanced because the symbol of Judah was the lion. However, I believe the Merovingians were from the tribe of Dan.”
Gen 49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Gen 49:17 Let Dan be a serpent on the way, a horned snake on the path that bites the horses’ heels, and its rider falls backward.
In the apocryphal writing of the Testament of Dan it states “I read in the book of Enoch, the Righteous, that your prince is satan.”
Guardians of the Grail pg 120
“Aside from the fact that the Spartans wore long hair as a symbol of their power (like Samson) there is a legend written about the son of Belus, king of the Spartans — in which is given the story of on named ‘Danaus,’ who arrived in Greece with his daughters by ship. According to the legend his daughters called themselves Danades. They introduced the cult of the mother goddess, which became the established religion of the Arcadians and developed over the years into the worship of Diana.”
The Holy Grail
John Gill commentary on Amos 5:26
the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves; or the star “your god” (q); meaning the same with Chiun or Saturn; perhaps the same with the star that fell from the air or sky*, mentioned by Sanchoniatho (r); which Astarte (Diana), the wife of Chronus or Saturn, is said to take and consecrate in Tyre; this they made for themselves, and worshipped as a deity. *This is important to note in that it connects to the ‘Holy Grail’.
Holy Blood Holy Grail pg 297
Quoting from Perlesvaus pg. 359
“Well I know that many brave knights dwell with the Grail at Munsalvaesche. Always when they ride out, as they often do, it is to seek adventure. They do so for their sins, these templars, whether their reward be defeat or victory. A valiant hose lives there, and I will tell you how they are sustained. They live from a stone of purest kind. If you know not know it, it shall here be named to you. It is called lapsit exillis. By the power of that stone the phoenix burns to ashes, but the ashes give him life again. Thus does the phoenix molt and change its plumage, which afterward is bright and shining and as lovely as before. There never was a human so ill but that, if he on day sees that stone, he cannot die within the week that follows. And in looks he will not fade. His appearance wills tay the same as when the best years of his life began, and though he should see the stone for two hundred years, it will never change, save that his hair might perhaps turn gray. Such power does the stone give a man that flesh and bones are at once made young again. The stone is called the Grail.”click here
“Lapsit exillis might be a corruption of lapis ex caelis– ‘stone from the heavens.’ It might also be a corruption of lapsit ex caelis – ‘it fell from heaven’; or of lapis lapsus ex caelus- ‘a stone fallen from heaven; or, finally, of lapis elixir -the fabulous Philosopher’s Stone of alchemy.”…The Philosopher’s stone will need to be discussed in more detail in a future study, but it points to the ‘evolution of man’ into a ‘god.’ DNA is a stone, when it is mixed with the ’stone’ from heaven the ‘Holy Grail’ or transformation is attained. The return of the age of Saturn. The age of Aquarius. The golden age of the ‘gods.’
Guardians of the Grail pg 43-44
“Trevor Ravenscroft writes in the Cup of Destiny that Percival rides through the constellations of the zodiac in his quest for the golden cup. His destination is Aries, where lies the castle of the Holy Grail. According to the doctrine of the ancient mystery cult, as he enters the Grail castle, he is entering the mystery world of the human body, the brain. It is there that ‘the stone of light’ resides. The stone is supposedly the pineal gland, located at the base of the brain. It is at the so-called ‘center of man’s consciousness’.” http://littleguyintheeye.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/
Sacred bee-maidens with their gift of prophecy, were to be
Apollo’s gift to Hermes, the god who alone could lead the souls of the
dead out of life and sometimes back again. The etymology of the word
fate in Greek offers a fascinating example of how the genius of the
Minoan vision entered the Greek language, often visibly, as well as
informing its stories of goddesses and gods. The Greek word for fate,
death and goddess of death is e ker (feminine); the word for heart
and breast is to ker (neuter); while the word for honeycomb is to
kerion (neuter). The common root ker links the ideas fo the honeycomb,
goddess, death, fate and the human heart, a nexus of meanings that is
illumined if we know that the goddess was once imagined as a bee.
In Greece:
Great Mother was known as the Queen Bee, and her priestesses were called Melissae, the Bees. Bees were the emblem of Eros*, Demeter, Cybele, Diana, Rhea, and Artemis. The Pythian priestess at Delphi was known as the Delphic Bee.
In Greece:
Great Mother was known as the Queen Bee, and her priestesses were called Melissae, the Bees. Bees were the emblem of Eros*, Demeter, Cybele, Diana, Rhea, and Artemis. The Pythian priestess at Delphi was known as the Delphic Bee.
Merovingian Origins
Presented to the Baronial Order of the Magna Charta and the Military Order of the Crusades, Corinthian Yacht Club,Essington, PA
21 October 2006
by: COL Charles C. Lucas, Jr. MD
Scythia
This was an area of Eurasia that included the Caucasians including Azerbaijan, the central Asia steppes including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, the valley of the Indus or that area between India and Pakistan, and the southern Ukraine with the lower Danube and Bulgaria.
Scholars regard the Scythians as an Iranian nomadic people speaking several languages but mostly Iranian (or Parsi which later became Farsi).
Scythians have left important ethnological markers such as tamgas (brand marks) and kurgans (permanent cemeteries). A 2500 year old mummy was recently found in the snow capped mountains of Mongolia with blond hair, tattoos, and weaponry. The mummy was preserved by ice and was found at 2600 meters. This find extended the range of the territory further east of the Scythians than had been previously thought.
It should be pointed out that the last ice age ended about 9,000 to 10,000 years ago, or about the 8 th millennium BC. Carbon 14 dating has allowed archaeologists to trace the emergence of the Scythians to the Sayan-Altay mountains from 3000BC to about 500BC. These mountains are where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan come together. They are also known as the homeland of the Turks. The mean elevation in the central area is about 4500 meters. About 900 BC the Scythians began a western migration.
They were nomadic warriors who rode horses bareback and who used archers, and the women fought along side the men. Women dressed like men. They were described by Homer and Herodotus. Herodotus, the Greek historian wrote about them in his Histories of the 5th Century. They became slave traders, merchants, and shippers. They were described as long haired warriors who were ferocious. Edmund Spenser wrote that the primary nation that settled Ireland were the Scythians , and that they also settled Scotland. It has been shown that the Scythians landed in Cornwall. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1, he writes of the barbarous Scythian.
It is thought that tribes of the Scythians settled Greece, and also moved into eastern Europe.
Haplotypes from current Y Chromosome DNA studies show that Central Asia was a mixing pot of several population groups. Haplotype R1a and R1b is found in eastern and western Asia as well as Europe and the United States.
Greece
Ancient Greece was formed in the third millennium BC when people known as Greeks migrated south to the Balkans in waves, the last being the Dorian invasion about 2300 BC. 1600-1100 BC is described as Mycenaean Greece known for the Wars against Troy as narrated by Homer. Ancient Greece ended with the end of the reign of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.
Herodotus, 484-425BC, was a Dorian Greek historian who is regarded as the father of history, and who was the author of The Histories- a 6 volume series.
Cimmerians
Herodotus described the Cimmerians of the north Black Sea coast as a distinctly autonomous tribe expelled by the Scythians. The Cimmerians in 714 BC were in the region of Azerbaijan, and in the 7 and 8th century BC were in southern Russia and Ukraine. Their language was Iranian.
There were many off shoots of the Cimmerians. Numerous Celtic and Germanic peoples descended from the Cimmerians. The etymology of Wales is said to descend from the Cimmerians. The Celts in France were known as Gauls. The Celts spread into present day Italy where remnants in the town of Doccia, in the province of Emilia-Romagna, showcase Celtic houses in very good condition dating from the 4th century BC.
Sicambri The west Germanic tribe of the Sicambri descended from the Cimmerians. The Sicambri were located along the right bank of the Rhine and appear about 55 BC. They fought several wars with Rome, namely one led by
Gaius Julius Caesar. In 16 BC they defeated the Roman army under Marcus Lollius. About 11 BC they were forced to move to the left side of the Rhine by Nero Claudius Drusus.
Merovingians The Merovingians claimed their descent from the Sicambri, who they believed were originally a Scythian or Cimmerian tribe once inhabiting the river Danube that changed their name to the Franks in 11 BC under the leadership of a chieftain called “Frankus”. The Franks first appear in historical writing in the 3rd century. The Merovinginans traced their Sicambrian origins from Marcomir I-died 412 BC and ultimately to the Kings of Troy. Marcomir I lived around 400 BC and preceded the Merovingian dynasty.
St. Gregory, Bishop of Tours was installed in 573 and was made
Master of Tours by Sigibert I, King of Austrasia (561-576). St. Gregory of Tours, who was the leading historian wrote that the Frankish leader Clovis on the occasion of his baptism into the Catholic faith in 496 was referred to as Sicambrian by the officiating Bishop of Rheims.
Troy
Troy was a legendary city established about 3000 BC and was the center of the Trojan Wars, which occurred about 1200 BC. These wars were described in the Iliad by Homer, who was a blind Greek historian. Today Troy is an archaeological site in northwest Turkey. Troy was founded by Dardanus, son of the Trojan Royal Family of Electra and Zeus. One generation before the Trojan War, Heracles captured Troy and killed Leomedon, but spared his son Priam who became King of Troy. During his reign, the Mycenaean Greeks invaded and captured Troy in the Trojan War 1193-1183 BC.
It is from Priam, King of Troy that Roderick Stuart in Royalty for Commoners shows descent from the Cimmerians to the Sicambri to the Merovingians.
Rome
Rome was founded 21 April 753 BC from settlements around a fjord on the River Tiber by Romulus and Remus, sons of the Trojan prince Aenas. Romulus killed Remus and became the first of the seven kings of Rome. The Roman Republic was established around 509 BC. By 200 BC Rome had become the dominant Mediterranean power. About 55 BC Gaius Julius Caesar was in power, and by 31 BC Augustus had consolidated his power. The Roman Empire is said to have ended as such in 476 AD when Odoacer, the Barbarian Germanic General deposed Romulus Agustulus. (Ian Woods states that Odoacer deposing Agustulus is speculation).
Barbarian Kings The Roman Empire was replaced with a number of states ruled by barbarian kings. In the 6th century Italy was controlled by the Ostragoths, France by the Franks, and Burgundians, and Spain by the Visigoths. A century later, the Lombards controlled northern Italy, and the Franks were unchallenged in France, and the Anglos and Saxons were in Britannia.
Franks
It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise the most influence for the longest time. For the first three centuries of its existence until 751 it was ruled by a single family, that of the Merovingians.
There were two groups of Franks-the Salian Franks and the Ripuarian Franks.
The Salian Franks (sea dwelling) lived North and East of Limes in the Dutch coastal area and in the 5th century migrated throughout Belgium and into northern France. By the 4th and 5th centuries, the Belgium city of Tournai had become the center of activity.
The Ripuarian Franks (river dwelling) lived along the Rhine river, and were perhaps called Ripuarian by the Romans.
By the 9th century any differences between these two groups had disappeared.
They were involved with the Romans as military recruits in the 5th century. Gregory of Tours, the historian, placed the emergence of the Merovingians at the conclusion of the Frankish migration. The Liber Historiae Francorum went further, connecting them with the Trojan migration.
Gregory of Tours wrote that the Franks had created long haired kings in Thuringia (Belgium). Gregory of Tours was troubled that there was no clear passage of royalty to the Franks from a line of Kings, but other scholars were not troubled since historical records were lacking.
As indicated the line of Frankish Kings began with Frankus
who died 11 BC. The line continues from Frankus to Chlodio.
Chlodio
The history of Chlodio comes from Gregory of Tours and
Sidonius Apollinarius.
Chlodio, was a semi legendary King of the Salian Franks. He lived in Dispargum which was a castle. Around 431 he invaded the territory of Artois but was defeated near Hesdin by Aetius, Commander of the Roman Army in Gaul. He regrouped and captured Cambrai (Cameracum) and occupied territory as far as the Somme River. He made Tournai the capital of all Salian Franks. He died 447-449.
MEROVINGIAN KINGS MEROVEE (MEROVECH) According to the Chronicles of Fredegar, Merovee (Merovech) the first of the Merovingian Kings was conceived by Chlodio’s wife when she went swimming and was encountered by a Quinotaur, a sea monster. The royal dynasty was thus given a supernatural origin. The actual parentage of Merovee is subject to conjecture, but he was clearly a Frank. Stuart in Royalty for Commoners states he was either a son or a son in law of Chlodio.
Merovee, the first Merovingian King, fought along side Flavius Aetius the Roman ruler when Attila the Hun was defeated in 451. Merovee was proclaimed King of the Franks in 448 and reigned for 10 years.
Under Merovee and his successors, the kingdom of the Franks flourished. It was not the crude barbaric culture often imagined. It warrants comparision with the high culture of the Byzantines. Secular literacy was encouraged.
They built lavish Roman styled amphitheaters in Paris and Soissons. The Franks were brutal but not like the Goths and the Huns. They accumulated immense wealth. They were active in farming, commerce, and maritime trade. Their gold coins that were minted bore an equal arm cross.
Childeric I The son of Merovee was Childeric I, who fought Odoacer at Angiers. Childeric was expelled from the Franks for sexual profligacy. Childeric returned to power and married the wife of the King of Thurigia. Childeric’s grave was found in 1653 in Tournai and was filled with weapons, gold, jewelry, Byzantine coins, and gold cicadas or bees. This is one of the most important medieval treasures ever found.
Clovis
The Bishop of Rheims wrote a letter to Clovis, son of Childeric I which has been preserved. With Clovis, we have the beginnings of a substantial documented history. Gregory of Tours could at last chronicle a Barbarian King.
Clovis reigned from 481-511 and was the major Merovingian King as was Charlemagne the major Carolingian King.
Gregory of Tours writes that Clovis defeated Syagrius; he then married Clothilda, daughter of a Burgundian King, who attempted to convert him to Christianity but failed. Clothilda was later named a Saint.
Beginning as early as 496 there were secret meetings between Clovis and Saint Remy, confessor of the wife of Clovis. Soon thereafter an agreement of cooperation was signed between Clovis and the Roman Church. Such an agreement was important because it transformed the less than unified Roman Church to one of supreme power in the West. Clovis became the sword of the Church.
During a battle against the Alamans, he vowed to become a Christian if he was victorious. He won and was baptized by the Bishop of Rheims in 496. On his return he received consular office from the eastern emperor (the Western Roman Empire had ceased to exist) and he established Paris as his capital. He was named Novus Constantinus-the new Constantine. At his baptism, Saint Remy said
“Sicambrian revere what thou hast burned and burn what thou hast revered.”
There was now a powerful religion, and a powerful Church being administered by a Merovingian bloodline.
Clovis allied with Godegisel against the Burgundian King Gundobad, but the latter survived. Clovis then attacked the Visigoths because they were heretics.
His last years were spent eliminating rival Frankish leaders. The sister of Clovis, Audofleda married the Ostrogothic King Theodoric and there were further marriages between the Visigoths, Thuringians, Herules and Burgundians, further consolidating the empire of the Franks.
The conversion of Clovis to Catholicism made him more acceptable to the Gallo Romans. In 511 he convened an ecclesiastical council in Orleans to discuss matters of newly acquired Aquitaine. When Clovis died in 511, the Frankish kingdom was the most powerful in Gaul.
After Clovis died, his kingdom was divided into 4 parts-one for each of his 4 sons. For more than a century thereafter, the Merovingian Dynasty presided over a number of disparate and warring kingdoms.
Clothair II Clothair II reigned 584-629 and reunited the Kingdom of the Franks. He signed the Perpetual Constitution which was an early Magna Charta.
As the Merovingian Kings were concerned with ritual, pomp, and circumstance, the actual administration of the empire was left to the Mayors of the Palaces.
Dagobert II In 651 Dagobert II came to power and was a worthy successor to Clovis. He amassed power and authority and great wealth which has been reported to have been located at Rennes le Chateau. He also seemed to lose interest in protecting the Roman Church and expanding it. Dagobert II married a Visigoth princess, and further expanded the empire to Languedoc. In doing so he created enemies-both secular and ecclesiastic. His Mayor of the Palace, Pepin the Fat aligned himself with enemies of Dagobert II.
Dagobert II had a major capital at Stenay which included a huge forest. On 23 December 679, while resting during a hunt in the forest, a servant under the direction of Pepin the Fat killed him. He was buried at Stenay, the royal chapel of Saint Remy. In 872, he was made a Saint. For all practical purposes, this ended the real power of the Merovingian Kings. The Mayors of the Palaces developed more and more power.
Charles Martel The most important Mayor of the Palace and an extremely important historical figure was Charles Martel, or Charles the Hammer who was born 686 and died 741. He expanded his rule over all three Frankish kingdoms: Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy. He was the illegitimate son of Pippin the Middle and his concubine Alpaida. He won the Battle of Tours in 732 which saved Europe from Muslim expansionism. He was a brilliant general and is considered the father of western heavy cavalry. He was the founder of the Carolingian Empire which was named after him.
In 737 King Theuderic died and Martel titled himself Major Domus and Princeps et dux Francorum and did not appoint a new King. The throne was vacant until the death of Martel. He was buried at Saint Denis Basilica. Before his death he divided his properties among his sons.
German and French historians have treated Charles Martel with great acclaim and believe that he saved Europe from Islam. He was called the hero of the age and it was said he delivered Christiandom.
Usurpation by the Carolingians First Carolingian King
Ten years after the death of Charles Martel, his son Pippin III or Pippin the Younger, or Pippin the Short, Mayor of the Palace to King Childeric III enlisted the support of the Pope in overthrowing the Merovingians.
Pippin’s ambassadors to Pope Zachary asked: “who should be King, the man who actually holds power or he though he is King has no power at all?”
The Pope then ordered that by apostolic authority Pippin III, or Pippin the Younger, or Pippin the Short, be created King of all the Franks, thus betraying the pact which had been made with Clovis. Pippin deposed Childeric III, and had his head shaved, and confined him to a monastery.
In 754 Pippin III was anointed at Ponthion. He died in 768 and is buried at St. Denis. In 740 he married Bertrada of Laon. Bertrada descended from the Merovingian Kings.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne was the son of Pippin and Bertrada.
Summary
Accomplishments of the Merovingians
When Childeric III was deposed, the Merovingians were the longest ruling dynasty in western Europe.
Clovis I, Clovis II, Childeric II, and Dagobert II were very strong rulers.
Childebert III operated successively with the aristocracy.
The people east of the Rhine were also subject to the Merovingians.
Merovingian history provides a focus for understanding the political history of western Europe in the two and half centuries following the deposition of Romulus Augustulus.
The Merovingian kingdom had a significant role to play in the transmission of culture from the late Roman period to the Carolingian period.
The Rhone valley was a storehouse of manuscripts, without which Benedict Biscop could never have equipped the great monastery of Monkwearmouth/Jarrow in England.
The Merovingian Church had a distinguished tradition in ecclesiastical legislation in the 6th and 7th centuries; it witnessed a flowering of monastic tradition. It was an institution heavily involved in politics. Boniface’s death at Dokkum can be seen as the last chapter in the Merovingian Church.
Some authors such as Fredegar and the author of
Annales Mettenses Priores perhaps down played the achievements of the Merovingians, yet to accept such readings is to oversimplify Merovingian history.
The Merovingian kingdom boasted no counterpart to Gregory the Great, Isidore, Bede, or Boniface; nevertheless no other state equaled the overall achievement of the Franks in the sixth, seventh, and eight centuries.
References:
Royalty for Commoners by Roderick W. Stuart
Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751 by Ian Wood
Articles from Wikipedia Encyclopedia with References
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln
Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.merovingiandynasty.com/Merovingian_Origins_Lucas.html
MEROVINGIAN ARTIFACTS - http://merovingiandynasty.com/MerTrea.htm
Presented to the Baronial Order of the Magna Charta and the Military Order of the Crusades, Corinthian Yacht Club,Essington, PA
21 October 2006
by: COL Charles C. Lucas, Jr. MD
Scythia
This was an area of Eurasia that included the Caucasians including Azerbaijan, the central Asia steppes including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan, the valley of the Indus or that area between India and Pakistan, and the southern Ukraine with the lower Danube and Bulgaria.
Scholars regard the Scythians as an Iranian nomadic people speaking several languages but mostly Iranian (or Parsi which later became Farsi).
Scythians have left important ethnological markers such as tamgas (brand marks) and kurgans (permanent cemeteries). A 2500 year old mummy was recently found in the snow capped mountains of Mongolia with blond hair, tattoos, and weaponry. The mummy was preserved by ice and was found at 2600 meters. This find extended the range of the territory further east of the Scythians than had been previously thought.
It should be pointed out that the last ice age ended about 9,000 to 10,000 years ago, or about the 8 th millennium BC. Carbon 14 dating has allowed archaeologists to trace the emergence of the Scythians to the Sayan-Altay mountains from 3000BC to about 500BC. These mountains are where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan come together. They are also known as the homeland of the Turks. The mean elevation in the central area is about 4500 meters. About 900 BC the Scythians began a western migration.
They were nomadic warriors who rode horses bareback and who used archers, and the women fought along side the men. Women dressed like men. They were described by Homer and Herodotus. Herodotus, the Greek historian wrote about them in his Histories of the 5th Century. They became slave traders, merchants, and shippers. They were described as long haired warriors who were ferocious. Edmund Spenser wrote that the primary nation that settled Ireland were the Scythians , and that they also settled Scotland. It has been shown that the Scythians landed in Cornwall. In Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1, he writes of the barbarous Scythian.
It is thought that tribes of the Scythians settled Greece, and also moved into eastern Europe.
Haplotypes from current Y Chromosome DNA studies show that Central Asia was a mixing pot of several population groups. Haplotype R1a and R1b is found in eastern and western Asia as well as Europe and the United States.
Greece
Ancient Greece was formed in the third millennium BC when people known as Greeks migrated south to the Balkans in waves, the last being the Dorian invasion about 2300 BC. 1600-1100 BC is described as Mycenaean Greece known for the Wars against Troy as narrated by Homer. Ancient Greece ended with the end of the reign of Alexander the Great in 323 BC.
Herodotus, 484-425BC, was a Dorian Greek historian who is regarded as the father of history, and who was the author of The Histories- a 6 volume series.
Cimmerians
Herodotus described the Cimmerians of the north Black Sea coast as a distinctly autonomous tribe expelled by the Scythians. The Cimmerians in 714 BC were in the region of Azerbaijan, and in the 7 and 8th century BC were in southern Russia and Ukraine. Their language was Iranian.
There were many off shoots of the Cimmerians. Numerous Celtic and Germanic peoples descended from the Cimmerians. The etymology of Wales is said to descend from the Cimmerians. The Celts in France were known as Gauls. The Celts spread into present day Italy where remnants in the town of Doccia, in the province of Emilia-Romagna, showcase Celtic houses in very good condition dating from the 4th century BC.
Sicambri The west Germanic tribe of the Sicambri descended from the Cimmerians. The Sicambri were located along the right bank of the Rhine and appear about 55 BC. They fought several wars with Rome, namely one led by
Gaius Julius Caesar. In 16 BC they defeated the Roman army under Marcus Lollius. About 11 BC they were forced to move to the left side of the Rhine by Nero Claudius Drusus.
Merovingians The Merovingians claimed their descent from the Sicambri, who they believed were originally a Scythian or Cimmerian tribe once inhabiting the river Danube that changed their name to the Franks in 11 BC under the leadership of a chieftain called “Frankus”. The Franks first appear in historical writing in the 3rd century. The Merovinginans traced their Sicambrian origins from Marcomir I-died 412 BC and ultimately to the Kings of Troy. Marcomir I lived around 400 BC and preceded the Merovingian dynasty.
St. Gregory, Bishop of Tours was installed in 573 and was made
Master of Tours by Sigibert I, King of Austrasia (561-576). St. Gregory of Tours, who was the leading historian wrote that the Frankish leader Clovis on the occasion of his baptism into the Catholic faith in 496 was referred to as Sicambrian by the officiating Bishop of Rheims.
Troy
Troy was a legendary city established about 3000 BC and was the center of the Trojan Wars, which occurred about 1200 BC. These wars were described in the Iliad by Homer, who was a blind Greek historian. Today Troy is an archaeological site in northwest Turkey. Troy was founded by Dardanus, son of the Trojan Royal Family of Electra and Zeus. One generation before the Trojan War, Heracles captured Troy and killed Leomedon, but spared his son Priam who became King of Troy. During his reign, the Mycenaean Greeks invaded and captured Troy in the Trojan War 1193-1183 BC.
It is from Priam, King of Troy that Roderick Stuart in Royalty for Commoners shows descent from the Cimmerians to the Sicambri to the Merovingians.
Rome
Rome was founded 21 April 753 BC from settlements around a fjord on the River Tiber by Romulus and Remus, sons of the Trojan prince Aenas. Romulus killed Remus and became the first of the seven kings of Rome. The Roman Republic was established around 509 BC. By 200 BC Rome had become the dominant Mediterranean power. About 55 BC Gaius Julius Caesar was in power, and by 31 BC Augustus had consolidated his power. The Roman Empire is said to have ended as such in 476 AD when Odoacer, the Barbarian Germanic General deposed Romulus Agustulus. (Ian Woods states that Odoacer deposing Agustulus is speculation).
Barbarian Kings The Roman Empire was replaced with a number of states ruled by barbarian kings. In the 6th century Italy was controlled by the Ostragoths, France by the Franks, and Burgundians, and Spain by the Visigoths. A century later, the Lombards controlled northern Italy, and the Franks were unchallenged in France, and the Anglos and Saxons were in Britannia.
Franks
It was the kingdom of the Franks which was to exercise the most influence for the longest time. For the first three centuries of its existence until 751 it was ruled by a single family, that of the Merovingians.
There were two groups of Franks-the Salian Franks and the Ripuarian Franks.
The Salian Franks (sea dwelling) lived North and East of Limes in the Dutch coastal area and in the 5th century migrated throughout Belgium and into northern France. By the 4th and 5th centuries, the Belgium city of Tournai had become the center of activity.
The Ripuarian Franks (river dwelling) lived along the Rhine river, and were perhaps called Ripuarian by the Romans.
By the 9th century any differences between these two groups had disappeared.
They were involved with the Romans as military recruits in the 5th century. Gregory of Tours, the historian, placed the emergence of the Merovingians at the conclusion of the Frankish migration. The Liber Historiae Francorum went further, connecting them with the Trojan migration.
Gregory of Tours wrote that the Franks had created long haired kings in Thuringia (Belgium). Gregory of Tours was troubled that there was no clear passage of royalty to the Franks from a line of Kings, but other scholars were not troubled since historical records were lacking.
As indicated the line of Frankish Kings began with Frankus
who died 11 BC. The line continues from Frankus to Chlodio.
Chlodio
The history of Chlodio comes from Gregory of Tours and
Sidonius Apollinarius.
Chlodio, was a semi legendary King of the Salian Franks. He lived in Dispargum which was a castle. Around 431 he invaded the territory of Artois but was defeated near Hesdin by Aetius, Commander of the Roman Army in Gaul. He regrouped and captured Cambrai (Cameracum) and occupied territory as far as the Somme River. He made Tournai the capital of all Salian Franks. He died 447-449.
MEROVINGIAN KINGS MEROVEE (MEROVECH) According to the Chronicles of Fredegar, Merovee (Merovech) the first of the Merovingian Kings was conceived by Chlodio’s wife when she went swimming and was encountered by a Quinotaur, a sea monster. The royal dynasty was thus given a supernatural origin. The actual parentage of Merovee is subject to conjecture, but he was clearly a Frank. Stuart in Royalty for Commoners states he was either a son or a son in law of Chlodio.
Merovee, the first Merovingian King, fought along side Flavius Aetius the Roman ruler when Attila the Hun was defeated in 451. Merovee was proclaimed King of the Franks in 448 and reigned for 10 years.
Under Merovee and his successors, the kingdom of the Franks flourished. It was not the crude barbaric culture often imagined. It warrants comparision with the high culture of the Byzantines. Secular literacy was encouraged.
They built lavish Roman styled amphitheaters in Paris and Soissons. The Franks were brutal but not like the Goths and the Huns. They accumulated immense wealth. They were active in farming, commerce, and maritime trade. Their gold coins that were minted bore an equal arm cross.
Childeric I The son of Merovee was Childeric I, who fought Odoacer at Angiers. Childeric was expelled from the Franks for sexual profligacy. Childeric returned to power and married the wife of the King of Thurigia. Childeric’s grave was found in 1653 in Tournai and was filled with weapons, gold, jewelry, Byzantine coins, and gold cicadas or bees. This is one of the most important medieval treasures ever found.
Clovis
The Bishop of Rheims wrote a letter to Clovis, son of Childeric I which has been preserved. With Clovis, we have the beginnings of a substantial documented history. Gregory of Tours could at last chronicle a Barbarian King.
Clovis reigned from 481-511 and was the major Merovingian King as was Charlemagne the major Carolingian King.
Gregory of Tours writes that Clovis defeated Syagrius; he then married Clothilda, daughter of a Burgundian King, who attempted to convert him to Christianity but failed. Clothilda was later named a Saint.
Beginning as early as 496 there were secret meetings between Clovis and Saint Remy, confessor of the wife of Clovis. Soon thereafter an agreement of cooperation was signed between Clovis and the Roman Church. Such an agreement was important because it transformed the less than unified Roman Church to one of supreme power in the West. Clovis became the sword of the Church.
During a battle against the Alamans, he vowed to become a Christian if he was victorious. He won and was baptized by the Bishop of Rheims in 496. On his return he received consular office from the eastern emperor (the Western Roman Empire had ceased to exist) and he established Paris as his capital. He was named Novus Constantinus-the new Constantine. At his baptism, Saint Remy said
“Sicambrian revere what thou hast burned and burn what thou hast revered.”
There was now a powerful religion, and a powerful Church being administered by a Merovingian bloodline.
Clovis allied with Godegisel against the Burgundian King Gundobad, but the latter survived. Clovis then attacked the Visigoths because they were heretics.
His last years were spent eliminating rival Frankish leaders. The sister of Clovis, Audofleda married the Ostrogothic King Theodoric and there were further marriages between the Visigoths, Thuringians, Herules and Burgundians, further consolidating the empire of the Franks.
The conversion of Clovis to Catholicism made him more acceptable to the Gallo Romans. In 511 he convened an ecclesiastical council in Orleans to discuss matters of newly acquired Aquitaine. When Clovis died in 511, the Frankish kingdom was the most powerful in Gaul.
After Clovis died, his kingdom was divided into 4 parts-one for each of his 4 sons. For more than a century thereafter, the Merovingian Dynasty presided over a number of disparate and warring kingdoms.
Clothair II Clothair II reigned 584-629 and reunited the Kingdom of the Franks. He signed the Perpetual Constitution which was an early Magna Charta.
As the Merovingian Kings were concerned with ritual, pomp, and circumstance, the actual administration of the empire was left to the Mayors of the Palaces.
Dagobert II In 651 Dagobert II came to power and was a worthy successor to Clovis. He amassed power and authority and great wealth which has been reported to have been located at Rennes le Chateau. He also seemed to lose interest in protecting the Roman Church and expanding it. Dagobert II married a Visigoth princess, and further expanded the empire to Languedoc. In doing so he created enemies-both secular and ecclesiastic. His Mayor of the Palace, Pepin the Fat aligned himself with enemies of Dagobert II.
Dagobert II had a major capital at Stenay which included a huge forest. On 23 December 679, while resting during a hunt in the forest, a servant under the direction of Pepin the Fat killed him. He was buried at Stenay, the royal chapel of Saint Remy. In 872, he was made a Saint. For all practical purposes, this ended the real power of the Merovingian Kings. The Mayors of the Palaces developed more and more power.
Charles Martel The most important Mayor of the Palace and an extremely important historical figure was Charles Martel, or Charles the Hammer who was born 686 and died 741. He expanded his rule over all three Frankish kingdoms: Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy. He was the illegitimate son of Pippin the Middle and his concubine Alpaida. He won the Battle of Tours in 732 which saved Europe from Muslim expansionism. He was a brilliant general and is considered the father of western heavy cavalry. He was the founder of the Carolingian Empire which was named after him.
In 737 King Theuderic died and Martel titled himself Major Domus and Princeps et dux Francorum and did not appoint a new King. The throne was vacant until the death of Martel. He was buried at Saint Denis Basilica. Before his death he divided his properties among his sons.
German and French historians have treated Charles Martel with great acclaim and believe that he saved Europe from Islam. He was called the hero of the age and it was said he delivered Christiandom.
Usurpation by the Carolingians First Carolingian King
Ten years after the death of Charles Martel, his son Pippin III or Pippin the Younger, or Pippin the Short, Mayor of the Palace to King Childeric III enlisted the support of the Pope in overthrowing the Merovingians.
Pippin’s ambassadors to Pope Zachary asked: “who should be King, the man who actually holds power or he though he is King has no power at all?”
The Pope then ordered that by apostolic authority Pippin III, or Pippin the Younger, or Pippin the Short, be created King of all the Franks, thus betraying the pact which had been made with Clovis. Pippin deposed Childeric III, and had his head shaved, and confined him to a monastery.
In 754 Pippin III was anointed at Ponthion. He died in 768 and is buried at St. Denis. In 740 he married Bertrada of Laon. Bertrada descended from the Merovingian Kings.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne was the son of Pippin and Bertrada.
Summary
Accomplishments of the Merovingians
When Childeric III was deposed, the Merovingians were the longest ruling dynasty in western Europe.
Clovis I, Clovis II, Childeric II, and Dagobert II were very strong rulers.
Childebert III operated successively with the aristocracy.
The people east of the Rhine were also subject to the Merovingians.
Merovingian history provides a focus for understanding the political history of western Europe in the two and half centuries following the deposition of Romulus Augustulus.
The Merovingian kingdom had a significant role to play in the transmission of culture from the late Roman period to the Carolingian period.
The Rhone valley was a storehouse of manuscripts, without which Benedict Biscop could never have equipped the great monastery of Monkwearmouth/Jarrow in England.
The Merovingian Church had a distinguished tradition in ecclesiastical legislation in the 6th and 7th centuries; it witnessed a flowering of monastic tradition. It was an institution heavily involved in politics. Boniface’s death at Dokkum can be seen as the last chapter in the Merovingian Church.
Some authors such as Fredegar and the author of
Annales Mettenses Priores perhaps down played the achievements of the Merovingians, yet to accept such readings is to oversimplify Merovingian history.
The Merovingian kingdom boasted no counterpart to Gregory the Great, Isidore, Bede, or Boniface; nevertheless no other state equaled the overall achievement of the Franks in the sixth, seventh, and eight centuries.
References:
Royalty for Commoners by Roderick W. Stuart
Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751 by Ian Wood
Articles from Wikipedia Encyclopedia with References
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh, Lincoln
Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.merovingiandynasty.com/Merovingian_Origins_Lucas.html
MEROVINGIAN ARTIFACTS - http://merovingiandynasty.com/MerTrea.htm
MEROVEUS, a Frankish chieftain, of
whom little is known that is authentic, beyond the fact that; he was the
grandfather of Clovis, the real founder of the Merovingians. Merovech (Latin: Meroveus or Merovius) is the semi-legendary founder of the Merovingian dynasty of the Salian Franks (although Chlodio may in fact be the founder), which later became the dominant Frankish tribe. He allegedly lived in the first half of the fifth century. His name is a Latinization of a form close to the Old High German given name Marwig, lit. "famed fight" (cf. māri "famous" + wīg "fight") compare modern Dutch marevecht "fight". The first Frankish royal dynasty called themselves Merovingians ("descendants of Meroveus") after him.
The Merovingian Dynasty was the first major royal dynasty of what would eventually become France. Descended from the Salian Franks, and supposedly possessing magical powers derived from long hair, the Merovingians ruled an empire that included much of modern France and quite a bit of Germany too, from 448 to 751 AD.
Their greatest legacies were the law codes they issued which neighbouring kingdoms were inspired to issue; and they helped to found the Catholic Church, via the Western Christian Empire.
The Merovingians maintained an uninterrupted, unquestioned reign over Gaul and West Germany for three centuries; but, in spite of their achievements, history largely ignored the likes of Clovis I for the more enigmatic Arthur, or the more imperial Charlemagne, both of whom had better publicists.
Meroveus II
The semi-legendary Meroveus II, otherwise known as Merovech or Merowig, was crowned King of the Franks (or at least of his tribe of Franks) in 448 at the age of 15, and it is from him that the Merovingian Dynasty derives its name. Which was quite an achievement for someone of questionable parentage.
His father, Clodion VI, was the first to commit his tribe's laws to paper, laws which would later be known as the Salic Laws.
Childeric I
While Meroveus II provided the name, bloodline and quite a bit of mythology, his son Childeric is credited with the actual founding of the dynasty. A sometime Roman ally, his grave, supposedly discovered in Tournai in 1653, yielded hundreds of Byzantine coins, and the accoutrements of Roman nobility, indicating some standing with Roman Empire. However, like his father, Childeric is a figure shrouded in mystery.
Clovis I
Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric I in 481, did much to establish Frankish power. Under his rule, the Merovingians carved out a kingdom that spanned from the Pyrenees to the Rhine. His conversion to Catholicism in 496 gave the embattled Church a powerful ally and its first kingly barbarian convert.
Clovis was a militant convert, though only nominally Christian. Despite the Church's objections, he still kept up his favourite hobbies of bigamy, assassinating rivals and conquering his in-laws. He once said of the Crucifixion, 'If I had been there with my Franks, I would have avenged His wrong', proving that he didn't fully grasp the new philosophy.
Clovis died in 511 and was buried in the church of St Genevieve on the Parisian south bank, a church he himself had built. The kingdom was divided among Clovis' sons, as was the style at the time.
Dagobert I
Ascending the throne in 630, Dagobert was the last truly effective Merovingian king. He was responsible for reforming the Frankish economy, exchanging gold coin for silver, and for bringing civilized notions to his neighbours. The Ripuarian Franks, the Alemanni and the Bavarians all had their own law codes written up for them by Dagobert's scholars.
Childeric III
The last Merovingian king, Childeric was a puppet to the man who would eventually replace him and establish a new dynasty. Most of the actual administration of the Merovingian kingdom was carried out by a Mayor of the Palace, a kind of prime minister; and during the last 100 years of Merovingian rule, more and more power slipped into the hands of the mayors.
The kings of the Late Merovingian period are often referred to as les rois faineants or the feeble kings, partly due to their lack of authority, but mostly because the average age of ascendants was six.
Childeric was deposed by his own mayor Pepin III, otherwise known as Pepin the Short, in 751. He was imprisoned and given a haircut to deprive him of any mystical powers he might have been hiding, deposit et detonsit. Pepin and his descendants, most notably Charlemagne, went on to establish the better known, but shorter-lived, Carolingian Dynasty. Childeric died four years later.
1 Exactly what those powers were is unclear. Super-dandruff perhaps?
2 His mother was a princess, one father a king, the other an unidentified seamonster.
3 Named after the Salian Franks, these laws outlined various crimes and punishments, as well as rules of inheritance. The latter were used to prevent women from claiming the throne.
4 By consolidating the Salian and Ripuarian Franks, Clovis is considered by some to be the founder of the Merovingian Dynasty.
5 Claimants to the throne had an unfortunate tendency of not dying of old age. (BBC)
The Merovingian Dynasty was the first major royal dynasty of what would eventually become France. Descended from the Salian Franks, and supposedly possessing magical powers derived from long hair, the Merovingians ruled an empire that included much of modern France and quite a bit of Germany too, from 448 to 751 AD.
Their greatest legacies were the law codes they issued which neighbouring kingdoms were inspired to issue; and they helped to found the Catholic Church, via the Western Christian Empire.
The Merovingians maintained an uninterrupted, unquestioned reign over Gaul and West Germany for three centuries; but, in spite of their achievements, history largely ignored the likes of Clovis I for the more enigmatic Arthur, or the more imperial Charlemagne, both of whom had better publicists.
Meroveus II
The semi-legendary Meroveus II, otherwise known as Merovech or Merowig, was crowned King of the Franks (or at least of his tribe of Franks) in 448 at the age of 15, and it is from him that the Merovingian Dynasty derives its name. Which was quite an achievement for someone of questionable parentage.
His father, Clodion VI, was the first to commit his tribe's laws to paper, laws which would later be known as the Salic Laws.
Childeric I
While Meroveus II provided the name, bloodline and quite a bit of mythology, his son Childeric is credited with the actual founding of the dynasty. A sometime Roman ally, his grave, supposedly discovered in Tournai in 1653, yielded hundreds of Byzantine coins, and the accoutrements of Roman nobility, indicating some standing with Roman Empire. However, like his father, Childeric is a figure shrouded in mystery.
Clovis I
Clovis, who succeeded his father Childeric I in 481, did much to establish Frankish power. Under his rule, the Merovingians carved out a kingdom that spanned from the Pyrenees to the Rhine. His conversion to Catholicism in 496 gave the embattled Church a powerful ally and its first kingly barbarian convert.
Clovis was a militant convert, though only nominally Christian. Despite the Church's objections, he still kept up his favourite hobbies of bigamy, assassinating rivals and conquering his in-laws. He once said of the Crucifixion, 'If I had been there with my Franks, I would have avenged His wrong', proving that he didn't fully grasp the new philosophy.
Clovis died in 511 and was buried in the church of St Genevieve on the Parisian south bank, a church he himself had built. The kingdom was divided among Clovis' sons, as was the style at the time.
Dagobert I
Ascending the throne in 630, Dagobert was the last truly effective Merovingian king. He was responsible for reforming the Frankish economy, exchanging gold coin for silver, and for bringing civilized notions to his neighbours. The Ripuarian Franks, the Alemanni and the Bavarians all had their own law codes written up for them by Dagobert's scholars.
Childeric III
The last Merovingian king, Childeric was a puppet to the man who would eventually replace him and establish a new dynasty. Most of the actual administration of the Merovingian kingdom was carried out by a Mayor of the Palace, a kind of prime minister; and during the last 100 years of Merovingian rule, more and more power slipped into the hands of the mayors.
The kings of the Late Merovingian period are often referred to as les rois faineants or the feeble kings, partly due to their lack of authority, but mostly because the average age of ascendants was six.
Childeric was deposed by his own mayor Pepin III, otherwise known as Pepin the Short, in 751. He was imprisoned and given a haircut to deprive him of any mystical powers he might have been hiding, deposit et detonsit. Pepin and his descendants, most notably Charlemagne, went on to establish the better known, but shorter-lived, Carolingian Dynasty. Childeric died four years later.
1 Exactly what those powers were is unclear. Super-dandruff perhaps?
2 His mother was a princess, one father a king, the other an unidentified seamonster.
3 Named after the Salian Franks, these laws outlined various crimes and punishments, as well as rules of inheritance. The latter were used to prevent women from claiming the throne.
4 By consolidating the Salian and Ripuarian Franks, Clovis is considered by some to be the founder of the Merovingian Dynasty.
5 Claimants to the throne had an unfortunate tendency of not dying of old age. (BBC)
Merovingios
The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of mostly Frankish and Gallo-Roman
stock. Their identity emerged initially in the first half of the 10th
century, and gradually evolved over succeeding centuries. The name
"Normans" derives from Nortmanni (Northmen), after the Vikings who founded Normandy.
They played a major political, military, and cultural role in medieval Europe and even the Near East. They were famed for their martial spirit and Christian piety. They quickly adopted the Romance language of the land they settled off, their dialect becoming known as Norman, an important literary language. The Duchy of Normandy, which they formed by treaty with the French crown, was one of the great large fiefs of medieval France. The Normans are famed both for their culture, such as their unique Romanesque architecture, and their musical traditions, as well as for their military accomplishments and innovations. Norman adventurers established a kingdom in Sicily and southern Italy by conquest, and a Norman expedition on behalf of their duke led to the Norman Conquest of England. Norman influence spread from these new centres to the Crusader States in the Near East, to Scotland and Wales in Great Britain, and to Ireland.
They played a major political, military, and cultural role in medieval Europe and even the Near East. They were famed for their martial spirit and Christian piety. They quickly adopted the Romance language of the land they settled off, their dialect becoming known as Norman, an important literary language. The Duchy of Normandy, which they formed by treaty with the French crown, was one of the great large fiefs of medieval France. The Normans are famed both for their culture, such as their unique Romanesque architecture, and their musical traditions, as well as for their military accomplishments and innovations. Norman adventurers established a kingdom in Sicily and southern Italy by conquest, and a Norman expedition on behalf of their duke led to the Norman Conquest of England. Norman influence spread from these new centres to the Crusader States in the Near East, to Scotland and Wales in Great Britain, and to Ireland.
A genealogy of the Royal House of Normandy...
WILLIAM I(Reigned October 14th, 1066 - September 9th, 1087)
Sometimes known as "the Conqueror" or "the Bastard"Son of Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy and his concubine, Herleva
Born at the Château de Falaise in Normandy in approximately 1027Died at the Abbey of Saint Gervais during the siege of Mantes on September 9th 1087Buried in the Abbey of Saint Etienne in CaenWilliam I was married, whilst still Duke of Normandy, in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Eu, Normandy, sometime around 1051, to Matilda of Flanders, daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, and his wife, Adèle, Princess of France. Queen Matilda was born in Flanders in approximately 1032 and she died of natural causes in Caen on the Feast of All Souls, 1083. She was buried in the Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen (sometimes known as the "Abbaye aux Dames.")The Issue of the Marriage of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders: -
1. ROBERT, Duke of Normandy (?1052 - ?1134). He married Sybilla of Conversano and had issue.
2. RICHARD, Duke of Bernay (Killed in a hunting accident, ?1081)
3. CECILIA, Abbess of the Holy Trinity Abbey (d. 1126)
4. ADELIZA (1055 - 1066)
5. WILLIAM II, King of England (Also killed in a hunting accident, 1100)
6. CONSTANCE, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1190). She married Alan IV, Duke of Brittany.
7. ADELA, Countess of Blois (d. 1137). She married Stephen-Henry, Count of Blois, Brie, Chartres and Meaux, and had issue - including Stephen, King of England.
8. HENRY I, King of England (1068 - 1135). He married twice. Firstly to Matilda of Scotland, by whom he had issue. Secondly to Adeliza of Louvain.
9. AGATHA, Queen of Galicia and León (1064 - 1073). She was married in infancy to Alfonso VI, King of Galicia and León. There was no issue from the marriage, due to the bride's youth at the time of her death.
10. MATILDA (born and died young)
WILLIAM I was succeeded in Normandy by his eldest son, Robert, and in England by his third son, William.***
WILLIAM II(Reigned September 9th, 1087 - August 2nd, 1100)Sometimes known as "William Rufus"Son of William I, King of England and his queen, Matilda of Flanders
Born in Normandy in approximately 1056
Died in a hunting accident in the New Forest, Hampshire, on August 2nd 1100Buried in Winchester CathedralWilliam II never married and there is no record of him ever producing any illegitimate children. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Henry.***HENRY I(Reigned August 2nd, 1100 - December 2nd, 1135)Sometimes known as "The Lion of Justice" or "Beauclerk"Son of William I, King of England and his queen, Matilda of Flanders
Born in Selby, Yorkshire, in September 1068Died of accidental food poisoning at St. Denis-le-Fermont, Normandy, on December 2nd 1135Buried in Reading AbbeyHenry I was married at Westminster Abbey on November 11th 1100 to Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III, King of Scots, and his queen, Margaret of Wessex (later canonised). Queen Matilda was born in Scotland in the autumn of 1180 and she died of natural causes at the Palace of Westminster on May Day, 1118. She was buried in Westminster Abbey. There was issue from the marriage of King Henry and Queen Matilda.
Henry I married for the second time at Windsor Castle on January 29th 1121 to Adeliza of Louvain, daughter of Geoffrey VII, Duke of Lower Brabant, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Count of Louvain, and his wife, Ida, Countess of Namur. Queen Adeliza was born in Brabant in approximately 1105 and she died whilst on religious retreat at Affligem Abbey in Brabant in the spring of 1151. There was no issue from the marriage of King Henry and Queen Adeliza.
The Issue of the Marriage of King Henry I and Matilda of Scotland: -
1. EUPHEMIA (born and died in 1101)
2. MATILDA, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Germany, Queen of Italy and Lady of the English (1102 - 1167). She was claimant to the throne of England between 1135 and 1154. She married firstly to Heinrich V, the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany and Italy. She married secondly Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, with whom she had issue - including Henry II, King of England.
3. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy (1103 - drowned 1121). He married Matilda of Anjou, later Abbess of Fontevrault Abbey.
4. RICHARD. There is some confusion about this prince of the House of Normandy. Some historians have queried whether he ever existed at all; whilst others have argued that he lived into maturity and drowned in the same shipping disaster as his elder brother. Alison Weir in Britain's Royal Families has argued that this was the case, based on remarks made in certain chronicles of the time. Lisa Hilton in Queens Consort suggests that Prince Richard died as a baby and that the Richard who drowned as an adult was one of King Henry's illegitimate children.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Sybilla Corbet, later Lady FitzHerbert : -
i. Robert, Earl of Gloucester (died 1147). He married Lady Mabel FitzHamon and had issue.
ii. Reginald, Earl of Cornwall (died 1175). He married Lady Beatrice FitzRichard and had issue.
iii. William (died 1187). He married a commoner called Alice and allegedly had issue.
iv. Sybilla, Queen of Scotland (died 1122). She married Alexander I, King of Scots.
v. Gundrada (known to be alive in 1130)
vi. Rohese (known to be alive in 1176). She married Lord Henri de la Pomerai and had issue.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Nesta, Princess of Deheubarth : -
vii. Henry FitzHenry (killed in battle in 1157). He married and had issue, but both sets of names are unknown.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Edith Sigulfson : -
viii. Robert FitzEdith, Baron Oakenhampton (d. 1172). He married Lady Matilda du Samp and had issue.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Isabelle de Meulan, later Countess of Pembroke : -
ix. Elizabeth (b. 1120). She died unmarried in adolescence.
Issue of King Henry's affair with a commoner called Edith : -
x. Mary, Countess of Perche (drowned 1120). She married Rotrou II, Comte de Perche, and had issue.
Issue of King Henry's affairs with various unknown women : -
xi. William de Tracy (d. 1140). He married and had issue, but both sets of names are unknown
xii. Gilbert (d. 1142)
xiii. Matilda, Duchess of Brittany. She married Conan III, Duke of Brittany, and had issue.
xiv. Constance, Vicomtesse de Beaumont-le-Maine. She married Richard, Vicomte de Beaumont-le-Maine, and had issue, including the future Queen Ermengarde of Scotland.
xv. Alice. She married Matthieu de Montmorency, Constable of France.
xvi. Matilda, Abbess of Montvilliers
xvii. Aline - briefly betrothed to William de Warenne
xviii. Joan. She married Lord Fergus of Galloway and had issue.
xix. Emma. She married Lord Guy de Laval and had issue.
xx. A daughter (name unknown) - briefly betrothed to Sir Hugh FitzGervais
xxi. Sybilla. She married Sir Baldwin de Boullers.
After the death of King Henry in 1135, his widow, Queen Adeliza of Louvain, subsequently married Lord William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel, by whom she had issue.
HENRY I was succeeded in a disputed succession by his nephew, Stephen.
*** STEPHEN
(December 22nd, 1135 - October 25th, 1154)Son of Stephen-Henry, Count Palatine of Blois and Adela of Normandy, Princess of England
Born in Blois in either 1096 or 1097Died of natural causes in Dover, Kent, on October 25th, 1154Buried in Faversham Abbey, Kent. His tomb was destroyed during the English Reformation.Stephen was married, whilst still Count of Mortain, at an unknown location in about 1125 to Matilda, Countess of Boulogne, daughter of Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, and his wife, Mary, Princess of Scotland. Queen Matilda was born in Boulogne in about 1105 and she died of natural causes at Hedingham Castle in Essex on the May 2nd 1152. She was buried in Faversham Abbey in Kent. Her tomb was destroyed during the English Reformation. The Issue of the Marriage of Stephen and Matilda of Boulogne: -
1. BALDWIN (?1126 - died before 1136)
2. EUSTACE, Count of Boulogne (?1127 - 1153). He married Constance of France, later Comtesse de Toulouse. There was no issue of the marriage. During the last year of his life, Eustace bore the courtesy title of King of England, although he is not included in any regnal lists of the British monarchies since then.
3. WILLIAM, Earl of Surrey, Count of Boulogne and Count of Mortain (?1132 - Killed in battle in 1159). He married Isabelle de Warenne, Countess of Surrey.
4. MATILDA, Comtesse de Meulan (?1133 - 1141). She was married in infancy to Waleran de Beaumont, Comte de Meulan. There was no issue of the marriage, due to the countess's extreme youth at the time of her death.
5. MARY (1136 - 1182). She entered a religious vocation at Romsey Abbey, where she eventually became Mother Superior. Upon the death of her elder brother William in 1159, she inherited the province of Boulogne. Following this, she was kidnapped from the convent and forced to marry her abductor, Matthew, Count of Flanders. This marriage produced issue, who were allowed to remain legitimate in law when the Pope annulled the marriage in 1169. After this, Mary returned to her life as a Benedictine nun in the convent of Saint Austrebert in Merteuil, France.
Issue of King Stephen's liaison with a commoner called Dameta : -
i. Gervaise (?1115 - 1160). He entered a religious vocation and became Abbot of Westminster.
It is not likely that Stephen was the biological father of Gervaise's two brothers, Almaric and Ralph. Likewise difficult to substantiate is the story that the young Stephen was the father of Sybilla, future Countess of Wiltshire.
STEPHEN was succeeded by his second cousin, Henry, and with his death in 1154 the reign of the House of Normandy came to an end. It was replaced by the House of Anjou, sometimes called the House of Plantagenet.
WILLIAM I(Reigned October 14th, 1066 - September 9th, 1087)
Sometimes known as "the Conqueror" or "the Bastard"Son of Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy and his concubine, Herleva
Born at the Château de Falaise in Normandy in approximately 1027Died at the Abbey of Saint Gervais during the siege of Mantes on September 9th 1087Buried in the Abbey of Saint Etienne in CaenWilliam I was married, whilst still Duke of Normandy, in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Eu, Normandy, sometime around 1051, to Matilda of Flanders, daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders, and his wife, Adèle, Princess of France. Queen Matilda was born in Flanders in approximately 1032 and she died of natural causes in Caen on the Feast of All Souls, 1083. She was buried in the Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen (sometimes known as the "Abbaye aux Dames.")The Issue of the Marriage of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders: -
1. ROBERT, Duke of Normandy (?1052 - ?1134). He married Sybilla of Conversano and had issue.
2. RICHARD, Duke of Bernay (Killed in a hunting accident, ?1081)
3. CECILIA, Abbess of the Holy Trinity Abbey (d. 1126)
4. ADELIZA (1055 - 1066)
5. WILLIAM II, King of England (Also killed in a hunting accident, 1100)
6. CONSTANCE, Duchess of Brittany (d. 1190). She married Alan IV, Duke of Brittany.
7. ADELA, Countess of Blois (d. 1137). She married Stephen-Henry, Count of Blois, Brie, Chartres and Meaux, and had issue - including Stephen, King of England.
8. HENRY I, King of England (1068 - 1135). He married twice. Firstly to Matilda of Scotland, by whom he had issue. Secondly to Adeliza of Louvain.
9. AGATHA, Queen of Galicia and León (1064 - 1073). She was married in infancy to Alfonso VI, King of Galicia and León. There was no issue from the marriage, due to the bride's youth at the time of her death.
10. MATILDA (born and died young)
WILLIAM I was succeeded in Normandy by his eldest son, Robert, and in England by his third son, William.***
WILLIAM II(Reigned September 9th, 1087 - August 2nd, 1100)Sometimes known as "William Rufus"Son of William I, King of England and his queen, Matilda of Flanders
Born in Normandy in approximately 1056
Died in a hunting accident in the New Forest, Hampshire, on August 2nd 1100Buried in Winchester CathedralWilliam II never married and there is no record of him ever producing any illegitimate children. He was succeeded by his younger brother, Henry.***HENRY I(Reigned August 2nd, 1100 - December 2nd, 1135)Sometimes known as "The Lion of Justice" or "Beauclerk"Son of William I, King of England and his queen, Matilda of Flanders
Born in Selby, Yorkshire, in September 1068Died of accidental food poisoning at St. Denis-le-Fermont, Normandy, on December 2nd 1135Buried in Reading AbbeyHenry I was married at Westminster Abbey on November 11th 1100 to Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Malcolm III, King of Scots, and his queen, Margaret of Wessex (later canonised). Queen Matilda was born in Scotland in the autumn of 1180 and she died of natural causes at the Palace of Westminster on May Day, 1118. She was buried in Westminster Abbey. There was issue from the marriage of King Henry and Queen Matilda.
Henry I married for the second time at Windsor Castle on January 29th 1121 to Adeliza of Louvain, daughter of Geoffrey VII, Duke of Lower Brabant, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Count of Louvain, and his wife, Ida, Countess of Namur. Queen Adeliza was born in Brabant in approximately 1105 and she died whilst on religious retreat at Affligem Abbey in Brabant in the spring of 1151. There was no issue from the marriage of King Henry and Queen Adeliza.
The Issue of the Marriage of King Henry I and Matilda of Scotland: -
1. EUPHEMIA (born and died in 1101)
2. MATILDA, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Germany, Queen of Italy and Lady of the English (1102 - 1167). She was claimant to the throne of England between 1135 and 1154. She married firstly to Heinrich V, the Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany and Italy. She married secondly Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, with whom she had issue - including Henry II, King of England.
3. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy (1103 - drowned 1121). He married Matilda of Anjou, later Abbess of Fontevrault Abbey.
4. RICHARD. There is some confusion about this prince of the House of Normandy. Some historians have queried whether he ever existed at all; whilst others have argued that he lived into maturity and drowned in the same shipping disaster as his elder brother. Alison Weir in Britain's Royal Families has argued that this was the case, based on remarks made in certain chronicles of the time. Lisa Hilton in Queens Consort suggests that Prince Richard died as a baby and that the Richard who drowned as an adult was one of King Henry's illegitimate children.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Sybilla Corbet, later Lady FitzHerbert : -
i. Robert, Earl of Gloucester (died 1147). He married Lady Mabel FitzHamon and had issue.
ii. Reginald, Earl of Cornwall (died 1175). He married Lady Beatrice FitzRichard and had issue.
iii. William (died 1187). He married a commoner called Alice and allegedly had issue.
iv. Sybilla, Queen of Scotland (died 1122). She married Alexander I, King of Scots.
v. Gundrada (known to be alive in 1130)
vi. Rohese (known to be alive in 1176). She married Lord Henri de la Pomerai and had issue.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Nesta, Princess of Deheubarth : -
vii. Henry FitzHenry (killed in battle in 1157). He married and had issue, but both sets of names are unknown.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Edith Sigulfson : -
viii. Robert FitzEdith, Baron Oakenhampton (d. 1172). He married Lady Matilda du Samp and had issue.
Issue of King Henry's affair with Isabelle de Meulan, later Countess of Pembroke : -
ix. Elizabeth (b. 1120). She died unmarried in adolescence.
Issue of King Henry's affair with a commoner called Edith : -
x. Mary, Countess of Perche (drowned 1120). She married Rotrou II, Comte de Perche, and had issue.
Issue of King Henry's affairs with various unknown women : -
xi. William de Tracy (d. 1140). He married and had issue, but both sets of names are unknown
xii. Gilbert (d. 1142)
xiii. Matilda, Duchess of Brittany. She married Conan III, Duke of Brittany, and had issue.
xiv. Constance, Vicomtesse de Beaumont-le-Maine. She married Richard, Vicomte de Beaumont-le-Maine, and had issue, including the future Queen Ermengarde of Scotland.
xv. Alice. She married Matthieu de Montmorency, Constable of France.
xvi. Matilda, Abbess of Montvilliers
xvii. Aline - briefly betrothed to William de Warenne
xviii. Joan. She married Lord Fergus of Galloway and had issue.
xix. Emma. She married Lord Guy de Laval and had issue.
xx. A daughter (name unknown) - briefly betrothed to Sir Hugh FitzGervais
xxi. Sybilla. She married Sir Baldwin de Boullers.
After the death of King Henry in 1135, his widow, Queen Adeliza of Louvain, subsequently married Lord William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel, by whom she had issue.
HENRY I was succeeded in a disputed succession by his nephew, Stephen.
*** STEPHEN
(December 22nd, 1135 - October 25th, 1154)Son of Stephen-Henry, Count Palatine of Blois and Adela of Normandy, Princess of England
Born in Blois in either 1096 or 1097Died of natural causes in Dover, Kent, on October 25th, 1154Buried in Faversham Abbey, Kent. His tomb was destroyed during the English Reformation.Stephen was married, whilst still Count of Mortain, at an unknown location in about 1125 to Matilda, Countess of Boulogne, daughter of Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, and his wife, Mary, Princess of Scotland. Queen Matilda was born in Boulogne in about 1105 and she died of natural causes at Hedingham Castle in Essex on the May 2nd 1152. She was buried in Faversham Abbey in Kent. Her tomb was destroyed during the English Reformation. The Issue of the Marriage of Stephen and Matilda of Boulogne: -
1. BALDWIN (?1126 - died before 1136)
2. EUSTACE, Count of Boulogne (?1127 - 1153). He married Constance of France, later Comtesse de Toulouse. There was no issue of the marriage. During the last year of his life, Eustace bore the courtesy title of King of England, although he is not included in any regnal lists of the British monarchies since then.
3. WILLIAM, Earl of Surrey, Count of Boulogne and Count of Mortain (?1132 - Killed in battle in 1159). He married Isabelle de Warenne, Countess of Surrey.
4. MATILDA, Comtesse de Meulan (?1133 - 1141). She was married in infancy to Waleran de Beaumont, Comte de Meulan. There was no issue of the marriage, due to the countess's extreme youth at the time of her death.
5. MARY (1136 - 1182). She entered a religious vocation at Romsey Abbey, where she eventually became Mother Superior. Upon the death of her elder brother William in 1159, she inherited the province of Boulogne. Following this, she was kidnapped from the convent and forced to marry her abductor, Matthew, Count of Flanders. This marriage produced issue, who were allowed to remain legitimate in law when the Pope annulled the marriage in 1169. After this, Mary returned to her life as a Benedictine nun in the convent of Saint Austrebert in Merteuil, France.
Issue of King Stephen's liaison with a commoner called Dameta : -
i. Gervaise (?1115 - 1160). He entered a religious vocation and became Abbot of Westminster.
It is not likely that Stephen was the biological father of Gervaise's two brothers, Almaric and Ralph. Likewise difficult to substantiate is the story that the young Stephen was the father of Sybilla, future Countess of Wiltshire.
STEPHEN was succeeded by his second cousin, Henry, and with his death in 1154 the reign of the House of Normandy came to an end. It was replaced by the House of Anjou, sometimes called the House of Plantagenet.
Norman Dynasty
Medieval Royalty - Grail Families
The bloodline of Lilith
and Samael, the pure royal blood of true kingship descended from
Transylvania to Mesopotamia, through the Sobekh queens of Egypt, to the
Tuatha de Danaa, the Pictish Dragon Fairy Princesses of the Holy Grail
in Anjou and Caledonia.
In the year 719 Charles Martel defeated Rainfroi de VER, Duke of Anjou and Mayor of the Palace of Neustrie.
This victory brought back together key houses of the Franks under one rule and is considered an important date in European history. Rainfroi de VER (also known as Raymond) was married to another legendary character, Melusine.
Melusine de VER has also been known as Melusina, Melouziana de Scythes, Maelasanu, and The Dragon Princess. She entered literary history in the book Roman de Melusine written in 1393 by Jean d'Arras. The story is a mix of fiction and fact, commissioned by the Duke de Berry, a French noble who was brother to King Charles V, and uncle of King Charles VI. It was meant to be a family history and to uphold the proprietary claims to Lusignan and Anjou.
In this story Melusine's mother was a Presine fairy who charmed Elinas, the king of Scotland. The result was their daughter Melusine. Half fairy and half princess, Melusine wandered over to the Continent and eventually met up with Rainfroi/Raymond in the forests Anjou. They met while he was out boar hunting. Overcome with her beauty, he took her hand in marriage, and many adventures ensued. As a result of this book, Melusine was subsequently featured in medieval tales across Europe, variously depicted as a mermaid, a water sprite, a fairy queen, a fairy princess, a dragon princess, and a forest nymph. She came to represent any magial creature who marries a mortal man. Most royal houses in Europe have claimed lineage to the real Melusine, so she has been the subject of great speculation. Legends about Melusine and Rainfroi (or Raymond) also often have a connection to boars and boar hunting.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne and Berta. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks, is the ancestor of every existing and former ruling house or dynasty in Europe. His sister Berta was joined in marriage to the son of Rainfroi de VER, Milo de VER in 800 AD, the same year her brother was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
Milo de Ver was the Duke of Anjou, Count of Angleria, and Duke Leader of Charlemagne's house. Milo and Berta had two sons, one being Roland (legendary Paladin for whom "Song of Roland" was written) and Milo de VER II. The de Ver line passed from Milo II through a succesion of Earls of Genney: Milo II 's son Nicasius de VER was father to Otho de VER, father to Amelius de VER, father to Gallus de VER, father to Mansses de VER, father to Alphonso de VERE (Alphonsus) . Alphonsus de VERE, Earl of Genney, was "Councilor to Edward the Confessor" King Edward III of England, who had both Norman and Flemish advisors. Alphonsus de VERE had a son Alberic de VERE, also known as Aubrey I. NOTE: Aubrey comes from the Teutonic name Alberic, or "elf-ruler."
Born sometime before 1040, Alberic de VERE (Aubrey I) came to England with William the Conqueror from Normandy in 1066, was one of King William's most favoured knights, and after the battle of Hastings, Alberic held land and lordships in many counties, including Middlesex where he owned Kensington and Earls Court. His wife was Beatrix, daughter of Henry Castellan, of Baurbough (some accounts say she was William the Conqueror's sister) by whom he had a daughter and five sons, Alberci (Aubrey de VERE II), Geffery, Roger, Robert an William. He used the motto,"Albri Comes" which which has been interpreted "Albery of truth cometh." He was alternately known as Alberic (Latin), Aubrey, Aberica Senior, Albri, Albertic, Albery, Aubri, Albury, and Alphonsus (in Greek). This Aubrey I, took the habit of a monk; and was buried in the church of Colne priory, which he had founded.
Alberic de VERE the Second (Aubrey II), born in 1062 and also known as "Ablecricus, Junior," was successor to his father and became so much in favor with King Henry I. that he was not only made great "Chamberlain of England" but also "Justiciar of England" or Justice of All England. Aubrey II built a huge castle at Hedingham c.1140 using the Archbishop of Canterbury as his architect. On May 15 in 1141, he was killed in London in a riot and buried in Colne Priory.
Alberic de VERE the Third (Aubrey III), born circa 1110, succeeded his father. During this time there was much turmoil in England, including a conflict between the Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and King Stephen. It was really a fight between Normans and Flemings for the English throne. Since Stephen's wife was the Flemish Matilda, Countess of Boulogne, those Flemings already in England naturally flocked to her side. Aubrey III with ties to both the Flemings and the Normans, seemed to have played both sides. Empress Matilda (Maude) frequently came to Hedingham Castle as a visitor and guest of de Vere, and it was here that she was cornered by King Stephen, escaping out of the castle by a rope. The other Matilda, Queen and wife of King Stephen, and Flemish, was another regular visitor to Hedingham, and she died there on the 3rd May 1152, and was later buriedat Faversham Abbey, Kent.
Eventually Aubrey III sided with the Norman Matilda/Maude and her son Henry II. Once Maude took control of the throne and became Empress, "in order to engage him to her interest" confirmed to Aubrey the office of great Chamberlain, all of his father's estates, along with other inheritances such as the earldom of Cambridge, Oxford, Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Doreseshire, which Maud's son, Henry II, confirmed this, constituting him Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford.
Here is where our story takes a twist.
Not everyone in the de VERE family supported the Normans. Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford had a son named Ralph de VERE (Ralph/Radulphus/Ralf/Baltredus) who defected to the Flemish side over succession in England and control of Brittany. He fled to Scotland in approximately 1165 and declared his allegiance to the Scottish Crown. Having opposed his father in these struggles, Ralph/Radulphus was disinherited. But he was subsequently rewarded with lands in Scotland.
Back in England, upon the death of Aubrey de VERE 1st Earl of Oxford in 1194, the title of 2nd Earl of Oxford passed to Ralph's older brother Aubrey IV. Having died childless, the title passed to Ralph's younger brother Robert de VERE, who now became the 3rd Earl of Oxford. As Ralph de VERE was the second son, the title of 3rd Earl of Oxford should have passed to him, but because of the disinheritance, the title passed to Robert, the 3rd son.
When Ralph fled to Scotland in approximately 1165, he went with his liege, Conan IV Duke of Brittany. Conan IV besides being Duke of Brittany, laid claim to the throne of England as a great-grandson of King Henry I and grandson of Empress Maude. Henry II of England gained control of Brittany, which resulted in Conan fleeing to Scotland. Conan IV married the sister of the King William I, The Lion of Scotland, and Ralph de Vere in return for his allegiance, was given lands in Lanarkshire. In the 12th century, a number of land grants in the lowlands were awarded to Flemish noble families by the Scottish throne.
Some confusion has arisen over the centuries about Ralph de VERE. His given name has been recorded as Ralph, Ralf, Radulph, Ralfredus, Radelphus, and Baltredus. His surname has been recorded as de Vere, de Veir, and de Weir.
Ralph was a witness to a charter of King William (born in 1143 and died 1214, reigned from 1165 to 1214.) Ralph was captured along with King William after beseiging the Castle of Alnwick in Northumbria in 1174. As Radulphus de Weir, he witnessed a Charter of King William, somewhere between 1174 and 1184, and as Radulph de Veir he gave a bovate of land in Sprowston, Roxburgh, to Kelso Abbey. As Radalphus de Vere he witnessed another Charter by King William to the Abbey of Lindores.
The Weirs of Blackwood in Lanarkshire, the principal WEIR family, claim descent from Ralph de Vere.
Ralph was succeeded by his eldest son Walter de VERE (born circa 1130) who was succeeded by Radulphus de VERE (also known as Ralph), born circa 1154. Radulphus died at end of Alexander II's reign (that being 1214 - 1249)
Thomas de VERE, son of Radulphus was born by 1246. In 1266 he was witness to a charter of a donation to Kelso Monastery by Hemicus St Clan. His son was Richardus de VERE (also recorded as Richard WERE) who was proprietor of the lands and the barony of Blackwood, circa 1296; the baron of Blackwood is often called the ancestor of all Weirs and Wiers of Scotland.
Thomas de VERE (also recorded as Wer/Were), son of Richardus, died in the reign of David Bruce, followed by Buan de VERE (also recorded as Were) born in the beginning of Robert III's reign. Buan's son was Rotaldus de VERE (also known as WERE of Blackwood) who had a charter for Blackwood 1398/1400 and was recorded as Bailie of Lesmahagow, followed by Thomas WERE (also recorded as Weir) of Blackwood, father of Robert VEYR (also recorded as Vere/Weir) of Blackwood who was born circa 1430 and died circa 1479.
His son was Thomas WEIR of Blackwood, (born circa 1460, died circa 1531), the first in this direct line at Blackwood to use the WEIR spelling consistently. From this time forward, all Scottish Veres would eventually come be known as Weirs. It is recorded that three of the maternal forebears of Thomas Weir included a Buchannan, a McFarlane, and a MacNaughton.
In the year 719 Charles Martel defeated Rainfroi de VER, Duke of Anjou and Mayor of the Palace of Neustrie.
This victory brought back together key houses of the Franks under one rule and is considered an important date in European history. Rainfroi de VER (also known as Raymond) was married to another legendary character, Melusine.
Melusine de VER has also been known as Melusina, Melouziana de Scythes, Maelasanu, and The Dragon Princess. She entered literary history in the book Roman de Melusine written in 1393 by Jean d'Arras. The story is a mix of fiction and fact, commissioned by the Duke de Berry, a French noble who was brother to King Charles V, and uncle of King Charles VI. It was meant to be a family history and to uphold the proprietary claims to Lusignan and Anjou.
In this story Melusine's mother was a Presine fairy who charmed Elinas, the king of Scotland. The result was their daughter Melusine. Half fairy and half princess, Melusine wandered over to the Continent and eventually met up with Rainfroi/Raymond in the forests Anjou. They met while he was out boar hunting. Overcome with her beauty, he took her hand in marriage, and many adventures ensued. As a result of this book, Melusine was subsequently featured in medieval tales across Europe, variously depicted as a mermaid, a water sprite, a fairy queen, a fairy princess, a dragon princess, and a forest nymph. She came to represent any magial creature who marries a mortal man. Most royal houses in Europe have claimed lineage to the real Melusine, so she has been the subject of great speculation. Legends about Melusine and Rainfroi (or Raymond) also often have a connection to boars and boar hunting.
Charles Martel went on to become Duke of all the Franks and founder of Carolinian line of Kings. Thirteen years later in 732 he defeated the Saracen Army at Poitiers in France, and saved Western Europe from complete invasion by the Moslems. As a result of this, his son Pepin III, became 1st King of the Franks. Pepin in turn was the father of Charlemagne and Berta. Charlemagne, 2nd King of the Franks, is the ancestor of every existing and former ruling house or dynasty in Europe. His sister Berta was joined in marriage to the son of Rainfroi de VER, Milo de VER in 800 AD, the same year her brother was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
Milo de Ver was the Duke of Anjou, Count of Angleria, and Duke Leader of Charlemagne's house. Milo and Berta had two sons, one being Roland (legendary Paladin for whom "Song of Roland" was written) and Milo de VER II. The de Ver line passed from Milo II through a succesion of Earls of Genney: Milo II 's son Nicasius de VER was father to Otho de VER, father to Amelius de VER, father to Gallus de VER, father to Mansses de VER, father to Alphonso de VERE (Alphonsus) . Alphonsus de VERE, Earl of Genney, was "Councilor to Edward the Confessor" King Edward III of England, who had both Norman and Flemish advisors. Alphonsus de VERE had a son Alberic de VERE, also known as Aubrey I. NOTE: Aubrey comes from the Teutonic name Alberic, or "elf-ruler."
Born sometime before 1040, Alberic de VERE (Aubrey I) came to England with William the Conqueror from Normandy in 1066, was one of King William's most favoured knights, and after the battle of Hastings, Alberic held land and lordships in many counties, including Middlesex where he owned Kensington and Earls Court. His wife was Beatrix, daughter of Henry Castellan, of Baurbough (some accounts say she was William the Conqueror's sister) by whom he had a daughter and five sons, Alberci (Aubrey de VERE II), Geffery, Roger, Robert an William. He used the motto,"Albri Comes" which which has been interpreted "Albery of truth cometh." He was alternately known as Alberic (Latin), Aubrey, Aberica Senior, Albri, Albertic, Albery, Aubri, Albury, and Alphonsus (in Greek). This Aubrey I, took the habit of a monk; and was buried in the church of Colne priory, which he had founded.
Alberic de VERE the Second (Aubrey II), born in 1062 and also known as "Ablecricus, Junior," was successor to his father and became so much in favor with King Henry I. that he was not only made great "Chamberlain of England" but also "Justiciar of England" or Justice of All England. Aubrey II built a huge castle at Hedingham c.1140 using the Archbishop of Canterbury as his architect. On May 15 in 1141, he was killed in London in a riot and buried in Colne Priory.
Alberic de VERE the Third (Aubrey III), born circa 1110, succeeded his father. During this time there was much turmoil in England, including a conflict between the Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and King Stephen. It was really a fight between Normans and Flemings for the English throne. Since Stephen's wife was the Flemish Matilda, Countess of Boulogne, those Flemings already in England naturally flocked to her side. Aubrey III with ties to both the Flemings and the Normans, seemed to have played both sides. Empress Matilda (Maude) frequently came to Hedingham Castle as a visitor and guest of de Vere, and it was here that she was cornered by King Stephen, escaping out of the castle by a rope. The other Matilda, Queen and wife of King Stephen, and Flemish, was another regular visitor to Hedingham, and she died there on the 3rd May 1152, and was later buriedat Faversham Abbey, Kent.
Eventually Aubrey III sided with the Norman Matilda/Maude and her son Henry II. Once Maude took control of the throne and became Empress, "in order to engage him to her interest" confirmed to Aubrey the office of great Chamberlain, all of his father's estates, along with other inheritances such as the earldom of Cambridge, Oxford, Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Doreseshire, which Maud's son, Henry II, confirmed this, constituting him Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford.
Here is where our story takes a twist.
Not everyone in the de VERE family supported the Normans. Aubrey 1st Earl of Oxford had a son named Ralph de VERE (Ralph/Radulphus/Ralf/Baltredus) who defected to the Flemish side over succession in England and control of Brittany. He fled to Scotland in approximately 1165 and declared his allegiance to the Scottish Crown. Having opposed his father in these struggles, Ralph/Radulphus was disinherited. But he was subsequently rewarded with lands in Scotland.
Back in England, upon the death of Aubrey de VERE 1st Earl of Oxford in 1194, the title of 2nd Earl of Oxford passed to Ralph's older brother Aubrey IV. Having died childless, the title passed to Ralph's younger brother Robert de VERE, who now became the 3rd Earl of Oxford. As Ralph de VERE was the second son, the title of 3rd Earl of Oxford should have passed to him, but because of the disinheritance, the title passed to Robert, the 3rd son.
When Ralph fled to Scotland in approximately 1165, he went with his liege, Conan IV Duke of Brittany. Conan IV besides being Duke of Brittany, laid claim to the throne of England as a great-grandson of King Henry I and grandson of Empress Maude. Henry II of England gained control of Brittany, which resulted in Conan fleeing to Scotland. Conan IV married the sister of the King William I, The Lion of Scotland, and Ralph de Vere in return for his allegiance, was given lands in Lanarkshire. In the 12th century, a number of land grants in the lowlands were awarded to Flemish noble families by the Scottish throne.
Some confusion has arisen over the centuries about Ralph de VERE. His given name has been recorded as Ralph, Ralf, Radulph, Ralfredus, Radelphus, and Baltredus. His surname has been recorded as de Vere, de Veir, and de Weir.
Ralph was a witness to a charter of King William (born in 1143 and died 1214, reigned from 1165 to 1214.) Ralph was captured along with King William after beseiging the Castle of Alnwick in Northumbria in 1174. As Radulphus de Weir, he witnessed a Charter of King William, somewhere between 1174 and 1184, and as Radulph de Veir he gave a bovate of land in Sprowston, Roxburgh, to Kelso Abbey. As Radalphus de Vere he witnessed another Charter by King William to the Abbey of Lindores.
The Weirs of Blackwood in Lanarkshire, the principal WEIR family, claim descent from Ralph de Vere.
Ralph was succeeded by his eldest son Walter de VERE (born circa 1130) who was succeeded by Radulphus de VERE (also known as Ralph), born circa 1154. Radulphus died at end of Alexander II's reign (that being 1214 - 1249)
Thomas de VERE, son of Radulphus was born by 1246. In 1266 he was witness to a charter of a donation to Kelso Monastery by Hemicus St Clan. His son was Richardus de VERE (also recorded as Richard WERE) who was proprietor of the lands and the barony of Blackwood, circa 1296; the baron of Blackwood is often called the ancestor of all Weirs and Wiers of Scotland.
Thomas de VERE (also recorded as Wer/Were), son of Richardus, died in the reign of David Bruce, followed by Buan de VERE (also recorded as Were) born in the beginning of Robert III's reign. Buan's son was Rotaldus de VERE (also known as WERE of Blackwood) who had a charter for Blackwood 1398/1400 and was recorded as Bailie of Lesmahagow, followed by Thomas WERE (also recorded as Weir) of Blackwood, father of Robert VEYR (also recorded as Vere/Weir) of Blackwood who was born circa 1430 and died circa 1479.
His son was Thomas WEIR of Blackwood, (born circa 1460, died circa 1531), the first in this direct line at Blackwood to use the WEIR spelling consistently. From this time forward, all Scottish Veres would eventually come be known as Weirs. It is recorded that three of the maternal forebears of Thomas Weir included a Buchannan, a McFarlane, and a MacNaughton.
The
Merovigians were a dynasty of Frankish kings, descended, according to
tradition, from Merovech, chief of the Salian Franks , whose son was
Childeric I and whose grandson was Clovis I , the founder of the
Frankish monarchy. Merovingian kings followed Frankish custom in
dividing the patrimony. After the death (511) of Clovis I, the kingdom
was divided among his descendants into various kingdoms, which later
became known as Austrasia , Neustria , and Burgundy . These kingdoms,
whose borders were constantly shifting, were often combined; for brief
periods, they were all united in a single realm under Clotaire I
(558-61), Clotaire II (613-23), and Dagobert I (629-39). The rule of
the Merovingians before Dagobert I was disturbed by chronic warfare
among aristocrats and rivals for power, notably between Queen Brunhilda
of Austrasia and Queen Fredegunde of Neustria. Dagobert I was the
last active ruler; his descendants were called the rois fainéants,
or idle kings. They were entirely subject to their mayors of the
palace, the Carolingians , who became the nominal as well as the actual
rulers of the Franks when Pepin the Short deposed (751) the last
Merovingian king, Childeric III.
Merovingian Descent Eleanor of Aquitaine:
Merovingian Dynasty (Blue); Carolingian Dynasty (Red); House of Poitiers (Green); Plantagenet Dynasty (Purple) > English Peerage > Commoners
Merovingian Dynasty (Blue); Carolingian Dynasty (Red); House of Poitiers (Green); Plantagenet Dynasty (Purple) > English Peerage > Commoners
Merovingian > Plantagenet
The entire Merovingian line is transmitted to Plantagenets only through Eleanor of Aquitaine
The entire Merovingian line is transmitted to Plantagenets only through Eleanor of Aquitaine
Carolingians
Frankish Kings
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The Franks emerged from the ruins of the Roman Empire in 476 AD as the dominant people of western Europe. Their leader, Clovis, extended his lands around the River Rhine in Germany through war and by 540 the Franks ruled most of the old Roman province of Gaul (France, named after the Franks). The first Frankish ruling family is known as the Merovingian dynasty, after Clovis’ grandfather Merovaeus. Clovis became a christian and made Paris his captial city. Most of the Franks were peasant farmers, who lived on lands ruled by nobles. They grew food, doing the seasonal tasks of plowing, sowing, and harvesting and also had to fight for their lord when he went to war. The Frankish system of land-holding and service was the beginning of the feudal system in Europe.
From the 5th to the 8th centuries, the Merovingian dynasty of kings ruled Europe and, from the Middle Ages until the present day, most of Europe's monarchs have been of Merovingian lineage. In 679 A.D., the Roman Catholic Church collaborated with the Carolingian dynasty to assassinate the Merovingian King, Dagobert II. Dagobert's nephew, Childeric III, was deposed in 751 by Pepin III, the first of the Carolingian dynasty. The removal of the Merovingian kings culminated with the coronation of Charlemagne, who became the Holy Roman Emperor in 800. Ironically, Charlemagne and the Carolingians married Merovingian wives in order to guarantee the continuation of their dynasty. This accounts for the perpetuity of the Merovingian bloodline in the royalty of Europe.
“In the [8th] century the Merovingian Dynasty of France was overthrown by the mayors of the Merovingian Palaces, the Carolingians. But Carolingians were also a major part of the Jesus–Magdalene heresy, as we shall soon see. They took Merovingian wives to assure that the heretical 'divine' bloodline was preserved twofold. The Carolingian empire became the unholy Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne who became the first Emperor, a huge coup.”
"In fact, to consolidate his claim to the throne of the Franks, Charlemagne had himself married a Merovingian princess."
After the death of Dagobert II, the Merovingian bloodline continued in the personage of Sigisbert IV, who fled to the south of France, to the village of Rennes le Chateau in Razes. Sigisbert assumed the name of "the Plant-Ard", which means "sapling" or "branch" and the title of the Count of Razes. "Plant-Ard" evolved into the surname Plantard:
"...Dagobert II climbed on the throne but he was assassinated in 679 as well as his son Sigebert IV according to the official history...
"The Merovingian dynasty continued formally with Thierry IV and Childéric III who was removed in 751 and this was the end of the dynasty. According to the parchment found by Saunière, and this could be true according to some historians, Sigebert IV escaped and arrived in the Razes on the 17 of January 681 where he took refuge with his grand father. Dagobert II had as a second wife Gisèle, the daughter of Béra II the count of Razès. The Merovingian line included, after Sigebert IV (676-758) also known as the 'Plant-Ard' - from whom Mr Plantard took his name!-: Sigebert V (695-768), Bera III (715-771), Guillemon, Bera IV (755-836), Bera V (794-860), Hildéric I and finally Sigebert VI known as 'Ursus'. From this lineage came the Blanchefort family who gave three centuries later a Templar Grand Master, Bertrand de Blanchefort... According to the parchment found by Saunière the lineage did not stop with Sigebert VI but continued up to this date although nobody claimed the French throne."- 856
"According to the latest documents the Merovingian dynasty is now alive in the Plantard family (we must remember that Saint Dagobert II' son, Sigebert IV was also known as "Plant Ard or Rejeton Ardent")." The phrase means Burning Kid!
Another prophecy pertaining to the Messiah is Isaiah 53:2: For he shall grow up before him as a tender PLANT, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
To further authenticate their pseudo-divine lineage, the Merovingian genealogies have Sigisbert IV, the 'Plant-Ard' or Branch, married to "Magdala", who is blasphemously identified as a descendant of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.
"...the marriage of Dagobert II and Giselle of Razes combined the two bloodlines, that of the Holy Family and that of a pagan divine beast, the Quinotaur. The connection between the Merovingians and the Holy Family seems to have been hind-shadowed by this union of the bloodlines, when indeed they would seem from contemporary sources to be a kind of Pendragon lineage, such as Vortigern and Arthur in Britain. In Sigisbert IV, it appears the bloodlines of the divine king and the world teacher combined.
"Given the events of his childhood, it is natural that Sigsbert, the new Count of Rhedae, kept a low profile. The only solid evidence of his existence is a charter for a monastery signed in 718 by 'Sigebert, Comte de Rhedae, and his wife Magdala'." - 873 (Book 1, Chap. 9)
Sigisbert and Magdala were most assuredly not descendants of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene; rather their Pendragon lineage refers to descent from Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur and Head Dragon of the Druidic Dragon Court:
"The Pendragon, or 'Head Dragon of the Island'...was the King-of-Kings and 'Guardian of the Celtic Isle'. The title was not dynastic; Pendragons were appointed from Celtic royal stock by a Druidic council of elders...
"The concept of the dragon in Celtic mythology emerged directly from the holy crocodile (the Messeh) of the ancient Egyptians. The Pharaohs were anointed with crocodile fat, and thereby attained the fortitude of the Messeh (Thus Messiah—Anointed One). The image of the intrepid Messeh evolved to become the Dragon, which in turn became emblematic of mighty kingship." - 29:183
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan... Rev. 12:9
Jesus said unto them...Ye are of your father the devil... John 8:42,44
The Merovingian dynasty was deposed in 800 A.D., but perpetuated itself in a direct line from Dagobert II through his son Sigisbert IV. From this bloodline came Godfroi de Bouillon, who captured Jerusalem in 1099 and formed the Knights Templars, as well as the Prieuré de Sion. Recall that the Society of Ormus which originated in Alexandria, Egypt had relocated to Calabria, Italy and that, in 1070 AD, twenty-nine years before the first Crusade, the Calabrian monks removed to Ardennes Forrest in France, part of the domains of Godfroi de Bouillon who was the duke of Lorraine.
"The First Crusade (A.D. 1098) could then conceivably have been an attempt to restore an heir of the Davidic bloodline to the throne of Jerusalem in the person of Godfroi of Bouillon (also known as Godfroi of Lorraine), who was, according to legend, of Merovingian lineage... This secret cabal called the Priory of Sion, was reputed to have been formed by Godfroi of Lorraine to protect the interests of the bloodline." - 936:63
The Templar Revelation lists among the Merovingian Rex Deus families who strategized the First Crusade the "Counts of Champagne, Lords of Gisors, Lords of Payen, Counts of Fontaine, Counts of Anjou, de Bouillon, St. Clairs of Roslin, Brienne, Joinville, Chaumont, St Clair de Gisor, St Clair de Neg and the Hapsburgs..." Godfroi de Bouillon who became the King of Jerusalem and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar was a descendant of King Dagobert through Hugues de Plantard. From these families descended the Saint-Clair (Sinclair) and Plantard bloodlines, as well as the Hapsburg dynasty which is allied with Plantard through the House of Lorraine.
"...Although it was deposed in the eighth century, the Merovingian bloodline did not become extinct... By dint of dynastic alliances and intermarriages, this line came to include Godfroi de Bouillon, who captured Jerusalem in 1099, and various other noble and royal families, past and present—Blanchefort, Gisors, SAINT-CLAIR—SINCLAIR in England...PLANTARD, and Habsburg-Lorraine...
"...in the tenth century a certain Hugues de Plantard...a literal descendant of both Dagobert and Guillem de Gellon—became the father of Eustache, the first count of Boulogne. Eustache's grandson was Godfroi de Bouillon, duke of Lorraine and conqueror of Jerusalem. And from Godfroi there issued a dynasty and a 'royal tradition' that, by virtue of being founded on 'the rock of Sion,' was equal to those presiding over France, England, and Germany. If the Merovingians were indeed descended from Jesus, then Godfroi—scion of the Merovingian blood royal—had, in his conquest of Jerusalem, regained his rightful heritage...
"There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe today—with numerous collateral branches—who are of Merovingian lineage. These include the houses of Hapsburg-Lorraine (present titular dukes of Lorraine and kings of Jerusalem), PLANTARD, Luxembourg, Montpezat, Montesquiou, and various others. According to the 'Prieuré documents,' the SINCLAIR family in Britain is also allied to the bloodline, as are various branches of the Stuarts..." - 31:107, 396, 409-10
The first Angevin dynasty was known from the 12th century as the Plantagenet dynasty through the House of Anjou which produced King Henry II and subsequent kings:
"Geoffrey Plante Genest, count of Anjou and Maine was the father of king Henry II of England and, amongst others, Hamelyn (Plantagenet), Warren earl of Surrey (London). The first evidence for the Pl(a/e)nte name in England is found in 1219, just after the times of Henry II's son, the lecherous king John.
"In 1200, king John married Isabella of Angouleme in Aquitaine who subsequently married Hugh de Lusignan, the most prominent baron of Aquitaine. In 1247, John (Plantagenet) (de Warenne) married Alice Lusignan (de Brien) and English resentments of favouritism towards the `foreign' Lusignans led on to the Baron's revolt in England, leading to the capture of king Henry III at Lewes (1264), though the king was freed by John (Plantagenet) (de Warenne) at Evesham (1265)." - 950
"The Plantagenets were themselves a junior branch of the House of Anjou, whose senior branch was the House of Vere [whose] ancestry was jointly Pictish and Merovingian descending from the ancient Grail House of Scythia." - 248:8
"According to the 'Prieuré documents' the lords of Anjou-Plantagenet family were thus allied to the Merovingian bloodline. And the name of Plantagenet may even have been intended to echo 'Plant-ard' or Plantard.'" - 31:302
According to Fritz Springmeier's Top Thirteen Illuminati Bloodlines, "The original start of the Prieuré de Sion appears to have been the idea of a number of powerful bloodlines, and included various descendants of the Merovingians, including the House of Lorraine, the House of Guise, the Medicis, Sforzas, the Estes, the Gonzagas, and the St. Clairs (Sinclairs). The Medicis are tied to the Black Nobility.
"From the beginning the Prieuré de Sion has been committed to Hermetic Magic... René d' Anjou, a descendant of the Merovingians persuaded Cosimo de Medici to establish in c. 1444 a non-church library at San Marco where Plato, Pythagorean works, and books on Hermetic Magic were translated. Up until this time, the Catholic church had control of all the libraries. It was from Cosimo de Medici's library that the spark of Greek and Egyptian teachings set off what developed into the Renaissance, which was a revival of humanism and the occult. It appears that during the Middle Ages, witchcraft and the mystery religions had seriously dissolved to the point that these modes of thought had to be relearned from the ancient writings. Interestingly, the Middle Ages when witchcraft and paganism were dissolving have been branded the 'Dark Ages' by the establishment, and inaccurately painted as a time when learning went out." - 77:79
The Merovingian families which ruled France, England and Germany included the Hapsburg-Lorraine dynasty which, in the twentieth century, played a major role in the formation of the European Union.
"Prominent in the Wars of Religion was the noble French family of de Guise... [T]hey disputed the legitimacy of the Valois succession, and claimed their own right to the throne by virtue of descent from the Emperor Charlemagne through the House of Lorraine." - 29:307
"The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court is the ancient Household Court and Order of the senior Angevin descendants of the Imperial and Royal House of Vere of Caledonia, Anjou and Lorraine, and the physical embodiment of the sovereign Princedom of Drakenberg, which is recognized under European Law as a sovereign ethnic racial group; the principal nation states of the Draconian peoples:...
"Furthermore, the royal and ambassadorial nature of the title of the Prince of Drakenberg (Princeps Draconis) is recognised under the 'Official Observations' of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Government of its state of origin within the European Union." - 357
PIERRE PLANTARD DE SAINT-CLAIR
There are compelling reasons for our conviction that the Antichrist will come from the Plantard and Saint-Clair bloodlines. Supporting evidence for this view will be presented throughout this series, as well as information leading to discovery of the identity of the False Prophet, a Merovingian as well.
According to The Messianic Legacy by Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh, Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire joined the Prieuré de Sion on July 10, 1943 and, from 1963 to 1981, shared the position of Grand Master with Gaylord Freeman, also of an Illuminati bloodline. (232:319;235-6) According to Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Plantard de Saint-Claire was Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion from 1981 to 1984.
"A veritable secret society of 121 dignitaries, the Prieuré de Sion, founded by Godfroi de Bouillon in Jerusalem in 1099, has numbered among its Grand Masters Leonardo da Vinci, Victor Hugo and Jean Cocteau. This Order convened its Convent at Blois on 17 January 1981... As a result of this recent Convent at Blois, Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire was elected grand master of the Order... This choice of grand master marks a decisive step in the evolution of the Order's conception and spirit in relation to the world; for the 121 dignitaries of the Prieuré de Sion are all éminences grises of high finance and of international political or philosophical societies; and Pierre Plantard is the direct descendant, through Dagobert II, of the Merovingian kings. His descent has been proved legally by the parchments of Queen Blanche of Castile, discovered by the Abbe Sauniére in the church at Rennes-le-Château (Aude) in 1891. These documents were sold by the priest's niece in 1965 to Captain Roland Stanmore and Sir Thomas Frazer, and were deposited in a safe-deposit box of Lloyds Bank Europe Limited of London." (31:214-15)
It seems that, following World War II, the Prieuré de Sion, and particularly Pierre Plantard, were intimately involved with the rise of Charles De Gaulle rise to the presidency of France.(232:318) According to The Messianic Legacy, "Under the German occupation and the Vichy regime, secret societies, including freemasonry, had been strictly banned and membership of any such organisation was subject to severe penalties." Springmeier states:
"It is hard for people to grasp that the Illuminati controlled Russia, Great Britain, Germany and France during World War II, but they did. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were all Masons. DeGaulle of France was closely linked with several esoteric groups, and the Prieuré de Sion and Grand Orient Masons helped him to power in the 50s... the people of the world weren't ready for a world government, and most not even a united Europe. W.W. II was carried out to adjust people's thinking toward wanting European unity." (77:168)
Dagobert II (c. 650 – December 23, 679) was the king of Austrasia (676–79), the son of Sigebert III and Chimnechild of Burgundy. He was the last of the Merovingian dynasty to rule independently in Austrasia, with the exception of Charles Martel's dubious candidate Clotaire IV.
Dagobert II
The assassination
The year 679 was coming to its end and Dagobert was living in his royal house, SATHANACUM - known today as Stenay - where he was to spend the Christmas holiday. On 23rd December, he went out hunting in the forest of "Wepria" (known today as Wo�vre) with a number of followers. Around the middle of the day, tired from the hunt, the king sat down near a fountain, which ran near to a large oak, to take some rest. It is still called ARPHAYS, and the section of the forest known as "SCORTlA" One of the servants among the conspirators struck the king while he was praying.
Dagobert, last king of a wide and powerful realm, perished, dying while doing good.
The king's body was taken first to the villa of Charmois, during the evening of 23rd December, then to the basilica of Sathanacum, which at that time was dedicated to Saint R�mi. All the dignitaries of the realm came to mourn the death of the sovereign.
Saint Dagobert II
The Roman Church wasted no time in commending the action. However, perhaps through guilt, they canonized Dagobert in 872, when his remains were moved to the graveyard of a church which was renamed "the Church of Saint Dagobert." They even gave him his own feast day, on December 23rd. This day also happened to be sacred to the Benjamite tribe. The Roman Catholic Church has always been unable or unwilling to explain why he was canonized.
From the day of his burial in the Church of Saint Dagobert, his grave has been a destination of pilgrimage for various significant historical figures including the Duke of Lorraine, the grandfather of Godfroi de Bouillon. The church was destroyed during the French Revolution and most of the relics of Saint Dagobert disappeared. Today only what is believed to be his skull remains, and it is held at a convent at Mons. Curiously some years later, a poem entitled "de Sancta Dagoberto martyre prose" appeared. Its message was that Dagobert had been martyred for some reason and it was found at the Abbey of Orval.
The end of the Merovingian era
Dagobert's assassination effectively marked the end of the Merovingian era. After the death of Dagobert, the Merovingian dynasty fell into decline, although they managed to hang onto much of their status for nearly a hundred more years. However, many of the monarchs were too young to be effective, and were unable to defend themselves against the relentless ambitions of the Mayors of the Palace. Childeric III died childless in 754 and that was the clearest sign that the dynasty's flame had expired.
What became of his son Sigisbert? No-one knows. According to some, he died before his father. Others say it was at the same time or after. Still others have him slipping through the clutches
The betrayal of Clovis by the assassination of Dagobert II has been the greatest source of anguish for the Priory of Sion and the Merovingian descendants. However, there seems to have been an attempt to mitigate the insult. Thus the Carolingian royal family (the family of Emperor Charlemagne) married Merovingian princesses in order to legitimize themselves. Dagobert's son, Sigisbert, was the ancestor of Guillem de Gellone, ruler of the Jewish kingdom of Septimania in southern France and later of Godfroi de Bouillon, who captured Jerusalem during the Crusades. Thereby the bloodline of Jesus Christ, the Davidic line, was restored back to the throne that had been rightfully its own since the time of the Old Testament.
The Franks emerged from the ruins of the Roman Empire in 476 AD as the dominant people of western Europe. Their leader, Clovis, extended his lands around the River Rhine in Germany through war and by 540 the Franks ruled most of the old Roman province of Gaul (France, named after the Franks). The first Frankish ruling family is known as the Merovingian dynasty, after Clovis’ grandfather Merovaeus. Clovis became a christian and made Paris his captial city. Most of the Franks were peasant farmers, who lived on lands ruled by nobles. They grew food, doing the seasonal tasks of plowing, sowing, and harvesting and also had to fight for their lord when he went to war. The Frankish system of land-holding and service was the beginning of the feudal system in Europe.
From the 5th to the 8th centuries, the Merovingian dynasty of kings ruled Europe and, from the Middle Ages until the present day, most of Europe's monarchs have been of Merovingian lineage. In 679 A.D., the Roman Catholic Church collaborated with the Carolingian dynasty to assassinate the Merovingian King, Dagobert II. Dagobert's nephew, Childeric III, was deposed in 751 by Pepin III, the first of the Carolingian dynasty. The removal of the Merovingian kings culminated with the coronation of Charlemagne, who became the Holy Roman Emperor in 800. Ironically, Charlemagne and the Carolingians married Merovingian wives in order to guarantee the continuation of their dynasty. This accounts for the perpetuity of the Merovingian bloodline in the royalty of Europe.
“In the [8th] century the Merovingian Dynasty of France was overthrown by the mayors of the Merovingian Palaces, the Carolingians. But Carolingians were also a major part of the Jesus–Magdalene heresy, as we shall soon see. They took Merovingian wives to assure that the heretical 'divine' bloodline was preserved twofold. The Carolingian empire became the unholy Holy Roman Empire under Charlemagne who became the first Emperor, a huge coup.”
"In fact, to consolidate his claim to the throne of the Franks, Charlemagne had himself married a Merovingian princess."
After the death of Dagobert II, the Merovingian bloodline continued in the personage of Sigisbert IV, who fled to the south of France, to the village of Rennes le Chateau in Razes. Sigisbert assumed the name of "the Plant-Ard", which means "sapling" or "branch" and the title of the Count of Razes. "Plant-Ard" evolved into the surname Plantard:
"...Dagobert II climbed on the throne but he was assassinated in 679 as well as his son Sigebert IV according to the official history...
"The Merovingian dynasty continued formally with Thierry IV and Childéric III who was removed in 751 and this was the end of the dynasty. According to the parchment found by Saunière, and this could be true according to some historians, Sigebert IV escaped and arrived in the Razes on the 17 of January 681 where he took refuge with his grand father. Dagobert II had as a second wife Gisèle, the daughter of Béra II the count of Razès. The Merovingian line included, after Sigebert IV (676-758) also known as the 'Plant-Ard' - from whom Mr Plantard took his name!-: Sigebert V (695-768), Bera III (715-771), Guillemon, Bera IV (755-836), Bera V (794-860), Hildéric I and finally Sigebert VI known as 'Ursus'. From this lineage came the Blanchefort family who gave three centuries later a Templar Grand Master, Bertrand de Blanchefort... According to the parchment found by Saunière the lineage did not stop with Sigebert VI but continued up to this date although nobody claimed the French throne."- 856
"According to the latest documents the Merovingian dynasty is now alive in the Plantard family (we must remember that Saint Dagobert II' son, Sigebert IV was also known as "Plant Ard or Rejeton Ardent")." The phrase means Burning Kid!
Another prophecy pertaining to the Messiah is Isaiah 53:2: For he shall grow up before him as a tender PLANT, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
To further authenticate their pseudo-divine lineage, the Merovingian genealogies have Sigisbert IV, the 'Plant-Ard' or Branch, married to "Magdala", who is blasphemously identified as a descendant of Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ.
"...the marriage of Dagobert II and Giselle of Razes combined the two bloodlines, that of the Holy Family and that of a pagan divine beast, the Quinotaur. The connection between the Merovingians and the Holy Family seems to have been hind-shadowed by this union of the bloodlines, when indeed they would seem from contemporary sources to be a kind of Pendragon lineage, such as Vortigern and Arthur in Britain. In Sigisbert IV, it appears the bloodlines of the divine king and the world teacher combined.
"Given the events of his childhood, it is natural that Sigsbert, the new Count of Rhedae, kept a low profile. The only solid evidence of his existence is a charter for a monastery signed in 718 by 'Sigebert, Comte de Rhedae, and his wife Magdala'." - 873 (Book 1, Chap. 9)
Sigisbert and Magdala were most assuredly not descendants of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene; rather their Pendragon lineage refers to descent from Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur and Head Dragon of the Druidic Dragon Court:
"The Pendragon, or 'Head Dragon of the Island'...was the King-of-Kings and 'Guardian of the Celtic Isle'. The title was not dynastic; Pendragons were appointed from Celtic royal stock by a Druidic council of elders...
"The concept of the dragon in Celtic mythology emerged directly from the holy crocodile (the Messeh) of the ancient Egyptians. The Pharaohs were anointed with crocodile fat, and thereby attained the fortitude of the Messeh (Thus Messiah—Anointed One). The image of the intrepid Messeh evolved to become the Dragon, which in turn became emblematic of mighty kingship." - 29:183
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan... Rev. 12:9
Jesus said unto them...Ye are of your father the devil... John 8:42,44
The Merovingian dynasty was deposed in 800 A.D., but perpetuated itself in a direct line from Dagobert II through his son Sigisbert IV. From this bloodline came Godfroi de Bouillon, who captured Jerusalem in 1099 and formed the Knights Templars, as well as the Prieuré de Sion. Recall that the Society of Ormus which originated in Alexandria, Egypt had relocated to Calabria, Italy and that, in 1070 AD, twenty-nine years before the first Crusade, the Calabrian monks removed to Ardennes Forrest in France, part of the domains of Godfroi de Bouillon who was the duke of Lorraine.
"The First Crusade (A.D. 1098) could then conceivably have been an attempt to restore an heir of the Davidic bloodline to the throne of Jerusalem in the person of Godfroi of Bouillon (also known as Godfroi of Lorraine), who was, according to legend, of Merovingian lineage... This secret cabal called the Priory of Sion, was reputed to have been formed by Godfroi of Lorraine to protect the interests of the bloodline." - 936:63
The Templar Revelation lists among the Merovingian Rex Deus families who strategized the First Crusade the "Counts of Champagne, Lords of Gisors, Lords of Payen, Counts of Fontaine, Counts of Anjou, de Bouillon, St. Clairs of Roslin, Brienne, Joinville, Chaumont, St Clair de Gisor, St Clair de Neg and the Hapsburgs..." Godfroi de Bouillon who became the King of Jerusalem and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar was a descendant of King Dagobert through Hugues de Plantard. From these families descended the Saint-Clair (Sinclair) and Plantard bloodlines, as well as the Hapsburg dynasty which is allied with Plantard through the House of Lorraine.
"...Although it was deposed in the eighth century, the Merovingian bloodline did not become extinct... By dint of dynastic alliances and intermarriages, this line came to include Godfroi de Bouillon, who captured Jerusalem in 1099, and various other noble and royal families, past and present—Blanchefort, Gisors, SAINT-CLAIR—SINCLAIR in England...PLANTARD, and Habsburg-Lorraine...
"...in the tenth century a certain Hugues de Plantard...a literal descendant of both Dagobert and Guillem de Gellon—became the father of Eustache, the first count of Boulogne. Eustache's grandson was Godfroi de Bouillon, duke of Lorraine and conqueror of Jerusalem. And from Godfroi there issued a dynasty and a 'royal tradition' that, by virtue of being founded on 'the rock of Sion,' was equal to those presiding over France, England, and Germany. If the Merovingians were indeed descended from Jesus, then Godfroi—scion of the Merovingian blood royal—had, in his conquest of Jerusalem, regained his rightful heritage...
"There are at least a dozen families in Britain and Europe today—with numerous collateral branches—who are of Merovingian lineage. These include the houses of Hapsburg-Lorraine (present titular dukes of Lorraine and kings of Jerusalem), PLANTARD, Luxembourg, Montpezat, Montesquiou, and various others. According to the 'Prieuré documents,' the SINCLAIR family in Britain is also allied to the bloodline, as are various branches of the Stuarts..." - 31:107, 396, 409-10
The first Angevin dynasty was known from the 12th century as the Plantagenet dynasty through the House of Anjou which produced King Henry II and subsequent kings:
"Geoffrey Plante Genest, count of Anjou and Maine was the father of king Henry II of England and, amongst others, Hamelyn (Plantagenet), Warren earl of Surrey (London). The first evidence for the Pl(a/e)nte name in England is found in 1219, just after the times of Henry II's son, the lecherous king John.
"In 1200, king John married Isabella of Angouleme in Aquitaine who subsequently married Hugh de Lusignan, the most prominent baron of Aquitaine. In 1247, John (Plantagenet) (de Warenne) married Alice Lusignan (de Brien) and English resentments of favouritism towards the `foreign' Lusignans led on to the Baron's revolt in England, leading to the capture of king Henry III at Lewes (1264), though the king was freed by John (Plantagenet) (de Warenne) at Evesham (1265)." - 950
"The Plantagenets were themselves a junior branch of the House of Anjou, whose senior branch was the House of Vere [whose] ancestry was jointly Pictish and Merovingian descending from the ancient Grail House of Scythia." - 248:8
"According to the 'Prieuré documents' the lords of Anjou-Plantagenet family were thus allied to the Merovingian bloodline. And the name of Plantagenet may even have been intended to echo 'Plant-ard' or Plantard.'" - 31:302
According to Fritz Springmeier's Top Thirteen Illuminati Bloodlines, "The original start of the Prieuré de Sion appears to have been the idea of a number of powerful bloodlines, and included various descendants of the Merovingians, including the House of Lorraine, the House of Guise, the Medicis, Sforzas, the Estes, the Gonzagas, and the St. Clairs (Sinclairs). The Medicis are tied to the Black Nobility.
"From the beginning the Prieuré de Sion has been committed to Hermetic Magic... René d' Anjou, a descendant of the Merovingians persuaded Cosimo de Medici to establish in c. 1444 a non-church library at San Marco where Plato, Pythagorean works, and books on Hermetic Magic were translated. Up until this time, the Catholic church had control of all the libraries. It was from Cosimo de Medici's library that the spark of Greek and Egyptian teachings set off what developed into the Renaissance, which was a revival of humanism and the occult. It appears that during the Middle Ages, witchcraft and the mystery religions had seriously dissolved to the point that these modes of thought had to be relearned from the ancient writings. Interestingly, the Middle Ages when witchcraft and paganism were dissolving have been branded the 'Dark Ages' by the establishment, and inaccurately painted as a time when learning went out." - 77:79
The Merovingian families which ruled France, England and Germany included the Hapsburg-Lorraine dynasty which, in the twentieth century, played a major role in the formation of the European Union.
"Prominent in the Wars of Religion was the noble French family of de Guise... [T]hey disputed the legitimacy of the Valois succession, and claimed their own right to the throne by virtue of descent from the Emperor Charlemagne through the House of Lorraine." - 29:307
"The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court is the ancient Household Court and Order of the senior Angevin descendants of the Imperial and Royal House of Vere of Caledonia, Anjou and Lorraine, and the physical embodiment of the sovereign Princedom of Drakenberg, which is recognized under European Law as a sovereign ethnic racial group; the principal nation states of the Draconian peoples:...
"Furthermore, the royal and ambassadorial nature of the title of the Prince of Drakenberg (Princeps Draconis) is recognised under the 'Official Observations' of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Government of its state of origin within the European Union." - 357
PIERRE PLANTARD DE SAINT-CLAIR
There are compelling reasons for our conviction that the Antichrist will come from the Plantard and Saint-Clair bloodlines. Supporting evidence for this view will be presented throughout this series, as well as information leading to discovery of the identity of the False Prophet, a Merovingian as well.
According to The Messianic Legacy by Baigent, Lincoln and Leigh, Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire joined the Prieuré de Sion on July 10, 1943 and, from 1963 to 1981, shared the position of Grand Master with Gaylord Freeman, also of an Illuminati bloodline. (232:319;235-6) According to Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Plantard de Saint-Claire was Grand Master of the Prieuré de Sion from 1981 to 1984.
"A veritable secret society of 121 dignitaries, the Prieuré de Sion, founded by Godfroi de Bouillon in Jerusalem in 1099, has numbered among its Grand Masters Leonardo da Vinci, Victor Hugo and Jean Cocteau. This Order convened its Convent at Blois on 17 January 1981... As a result of this recent Convent at Blois, Pierre Plantard de Saint-Claire was elected grand master of the Order... This choice of grand master marks a decisive step in the evolution of the Order's conception and spirit in relation to the world; for the 121 dignitaries of the Prieuré de Sion are all éminences grises of high finance and of international political or philosophical societies; and Pierre Plantard is the direct descendant, through Dagobert II, of the Merovingian kings. His descent has been proved legally by the parchments of Queen Blanche of Castile, discovered by the Abbe Sauniére in the church at Rennes-le-Château (Aude) in 1891. These documents were sold by the priest's niece in 1965 to Captain Roland Stanmore and Sir Thomas Frazer, and were deposited in a safe-deposit box of Lloyds Bank Europe Limited of London." (31:214-15)
It seems that, following World War II, the Prieuré de Sion, and particularly Pierre Plantard, were intimately involved with the rise of Charles De Gaulle rise to the presidency of France.(232:318) According to The Messianic Legacy, "Under the German occupation and the Vichy regime, secret societies, including freemasonry, had been strictly banned and membership of any such organisation was subject to severe penalties." Springmeier states:
"It is hard for people to grasp that the Illuminati controlled Russia, Great Britain, Germany and France during World War II, but they did. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were all Masons. DeGaulle of France was closely linked with several esoteric groups, and the Prieuré de Sion and Grand Orient Masons helped him to power in the 50s... the people of the world weren't ready for a world government, and most not even a united Europe. W.W. II was carried out to adjust people's thinking toward wanting European unity." (77:168)
Dagobert II (c. 650 – December 23, 679) was the king of Austrasia (676–79), the son of Sigebert III and Chimnechild of Burgundy. He was the last of the Merovingian dynasty to rule independently in Austrasia, with the exception of Charles Martel's dubious candidate Clotaire IV.
Dagobert II
The assassination
The year 679 was coming to its end and Dagobert was living in his royal house, SATHANACUM - known today as Stenay - where he was to spend the Christmas holiday. On 23rd December, he went out hunting in the forest of "Wepria" (known today as Wo�vre) with a number of followers. Around the middle of the day, tired from the hunt, the king sat down near a fountain, which ran near to a large oak, to take some rest. It is still called ARPHAYS, and the section of the forest known as "SCORTlA" One of the servants among the conspirators struck the king while he was praying.
Dagobert, last king of a wide and powerful realm, perished, dying while doing good.
The king's body was taken first to the villa of Charmois, during the evening of 23rd December, then to the basilica of Sathanacum, which at that time was dedicated to Saint R�mi. All the dignitaries of the realm came to mourn the death of the sovereign.
Saint Dagobert II
The Roman Church wasted no time in commending the action. However, perhaps through guilt, they canonized Dagobert in 872, when his remains were moved to the graveyard of a church which was renamed "the Church of Saint Dagobert." They even gave him his own feast day, on December 23rd. This day also happened to be sacred to the Benjamite tribe. The Roman Catholic Church has always been unable or unwilling to explain why he was canonized.
From the day of his burial in the Church of Saint Dagobert, his grave has been a destination of pilgrimage for various significant historical figures including the Duke of Lorraine, the grandfather of Godfroi de Bouillon. The church was destroyed during the French Revolution and most of the relics of Saint Dagobert disappeared. Today only what is believed to be his skull remains, and it is held at a convent at Mons. Curiously some years later, a poem entitled "de Sancta Dagoberto martyre prose" appeared. Its message was that Dagobert had been martyred for some reason and it was found at the Abbey of Orval.
The end of the Merovingian era
Dagobert's assassination effectively marked the end of the Merovingian era. After the death of Dagobert, the Merovingian dynasty fell into decline, although they managed to hang onto much of their status for nearly a hundred more years. However, many of the monarchs were too young to be effective, and were unable to defend themselves against the relentless ambitions of the Mayors of the Palace. Childeric III died childless in 754 and that was the clearest sign that the dynasty's flame had expired.
What became of his son Sigisbert? No-one knows. According to some, he died before his father. Others say it was at the same time or after. Still others have him slipping through the clutches
The betrayal of Clovis by the assassination of Dagobert II has been the greatest source of anguish for the Priory of Sion and the Merovingian descendants. However, there seems to have been an attempt to mitigate the insult. Thus the Carolingian royal family (the family of Emperor Charlemagne) married Merovingian princesses in order to legitimize themselves. Dagobert's son, Sigisbert, was the ancestor of Guillem de Gellone, ruler of the Jewish kingdom of Septimania in southern France and later of Godfroi de Bouillon, who captured Jerusalem during the Crusades. Thereby the bloodline of Jesus Christ, the Davidic line, was restored back to the throne that had been rightfully its own since the time of the Old Testament.
Historical and genealogical research and to perpetuate the memory and
to honor the name of the Mervingians; to bring into one group the
descendants and heirs; to maintain and promote the
traditions of chivalry and knighthood; to recognize acts of merit; to
recognize achievements in the Arts, Sciences and Letters; to inspire
patriotism and loyalty to our country; and for such other lawful and
proper purposes. To collect and preserve books on genealogy, family
history, heraldry and general history. To collect and preserve
documents, manuscripts, relics, records and traditions relating to the Dragon Lineage; to create a popular interest in
ancient history and genealogy. Non-political and
non-sectarian.
