Dossiers Secrets of Pierre Plantard

(Conspiracy Nation, 07/08/08) – Pierre Plantard (image, left) perpetrated the Priory of Sion hoax, confidently asserts the Wikipedia reference. (“Pierre Plantard”, July 7, 2008). The true situation is more complex, according to Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, authors of “The Sion Revelation” (New York: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), 2006). Dossiers Secrets, placed by Plantard or associates in France's Bibliotheque Nationale in the 1960s, seem to be disinformation rather than a complete hoax.

The most effective disinformation “is far more than a convincing lie. Inevitably, some true information – elements that can be verified in order to make the story as a whole seem credible – has to be included.” Picknett and Prince (op. cit.) believe the Dossiers Secrets are one such case of disinformation, designed as a diversion from genuine secrets.

The nuances of the Dossiers Secrets are explored in much greater depth by Picknett and Prince, in their book, than can be provided here, in this report by Conspiracy Nation. What follows is only the gist of it.

In January of 1964, a peculiar document was surreptitiously placed in the Bibliotheque Nationale: “Geneology of the Merovingian Kings and Origins of Various French and Foreign Families of Merovingian Stock, After Abbe Pichon, Dr. Herve, and the Parchments of Abbe Sauniere, Cure of Rennes-le-Chateau”. Then, in August of 1965, a second document was placed: “The Merovingian Descendants, or the Enigma of the Visigoth Razes”. These documents became known as the Dossiers Secrets.

Encapsulated, here is the bare bones of the Dossiers Secrets:

The Franks were a German tribe known as the Sicambrians. The Sicambrians were of the Tribe of Benjamin. They had migrated to Germany during the Bronze Age. Jerusalem is on land belonging to the Tribe of Benjamin.

Henri Lobineau is a pseudonym attached to the Dossiers Secrets. Whoever Lobineau really was, he claimed certain parchments contained geneologies of the Merovingian line after their supposed extinction. This would be similar to a modern claim that some or all of the Romanovs survived the 1918 Ekaterinburg execution. (Background: “Romanov Mystery Solved?” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/TsarMyst.htm)

Dagobert II had died on Dec. 23, 679, probably assassinated under order of Pepin the Fat. Dagobert II had a son, Sigebert, who disappeared from history. Was he also murdered? According to Lobineau, Sigebert was carried away by protectors to the safety of Rhedae, today known as Rennes-le-Chateau.

Sigebert, so the legend goes, was given the title "rejeton ardent" (ardent offspring). Explained by the Dossiers Secrets, Sigebert represented a "new stock issuing from the Merovingian Kings, the Plant-Ards or Rejeton-Ardent."

Unknown to history, the Merovingian line continued through Sigebert. But by the thirteenth century, it had been reduced mostly to "simple peasants". The main line of descent bore the name Plant-Ard.

The Crusader Godefroy de Bouillon was a Merovingian descendant. So when Jerusalem was captured in 1099 A.D., it represented a reclamation by the long-lost Tribe of Benjamin of their land. Although the Saracens recaptured Jerusalem in 1187 A.D., the title "King of Jerusalem" continued to be used by later descendants, on down to Archduke Johann Salvator's branch of the Habsburg family.

The secret of this geneology was given to the Abbe Bigou by Marie de Negre d'Ables, Dame d'Hautpoul et de Blanchefort (Blanche of Castille) on her deathbed. Entrusted with the secret, the priest hid parchments detailing the facts in Rennes-le-Chateau. A century later, in 1891, the priest Berenger Sauniere discovered the documents, bearing the seal of Blanche of Castille, in a hollowed-out pillar.

In their book, Picknett and Prince attempt to sort out how much of this is true.

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