Instead, It was all a hoax fabricated in the 1950s by a French fascist.
But is it true?
He wanted her to lead his church after his death.
Members of this secret bloodline helped launch the Crusades and conquer Jerusalem.
The two groups split in 1188, but the Templars remained under the Priorys control.
Ugo de Blancheford (1150-1151)2.
Bernard de Tremblay (1151-1153)3.
Guillaume de Chanaleilles (1153-1154)4.
Evrard de N…?
(1154-1154)5.
Andre de Montbard(1155-1156)6.
Bertand de Blanchefort (1156-1169)7.
Philippe de Milly (1169-1170)8.
Eudes de Saint-Amand (1170-1180)9.
Arnaud de Toroge (1181-1184)10.
Gerard de Rideford (1184-1188)11.
Jean de Gisors (1188-1220)12.
Marie de Saint-Clair (1220-1266)13.
Guillaume de Gisors (1266-1307)14.
Edouard de Bar (1307-1336)15.
Jeanne de Bar (1336-1351)16.
Jean de Saint-Clair (1351-1366)17.
Blanche dEvreux (1366-1398)18.
Nicolas Flamel (1398-1418)19.
Rene dAnjou (1418-1480)20.
Iolande de Bar (1480-1483)21.
Sandro Filipepi AKA Botticelli (1483-1510)22.
Leonardo da Vinci (1510-1519)23.
Charles III (Duke of Bourbon-Montpensier) (1519-1527)24.
Ferdinand de Gonzague (1527-1556)25.
Michel de Notre-Dame AKA Nostradamus(1556-1566)26.
Duc de Longueville & Nicolas Froumenteau (1566-1575)27.
Louis de Nevers (1575-1595)28.
Robert Fludd (1595-1637)29.
Johann Valentin Andrea (1637-1654)30.
Robert Boyle (1654-1691)31.
Isaac Newton (1691-1727)32.
Charles Radclyffe (1727-1746)33.
Charles de Lorraine (1746-1780)34.
Maximillian de Lorraine (1780-1801)35.
Charles Nodier (1801-1844)36.
Victor Hugo (1844-1885)37.
Claude Debussy (1885-1918)38.
Jean Cocteau (1918-1963)39.
He reportedly was a fantasist who wanted to seem more important than he actually waswhich was a butler.
In 1953 Plantard was convicted of fraud and served a six-month sentence.
About 10 years later, though, Plantard began taking his hoax to a higher level.
The latter document was a bound dossier referred to as The Secret Files.
We were never involved in any activities of a political nature.
It was four friends who came together to have fun.
We called ourselves the Priory of Sion because there was a mountain by the same name close-by.
I dont know why people make a run at make such a big thing out of nothing.
Still, some people persist in believing its trueprobably because they need to believe in something.
