Believers can find the “Jesus-Magdalene Bloodline” anywhere – from obscure French poems by Pierre de Saint-Louis to well-known English writers composing oddball essays about a Priestess of Isis. When people develop an obsession it acts like superglue and soon that person will see their pet-belief “verified” everywhere and anywhere, however irrational.

There was a time in January 1982 when a trio of authors tried to pin a “Jesus Bloodline” theory on Pierre Plantard – until he appeared personally on French Radio calling it nonsense. Yet the obsession is such that there are people who claim that the trio of authors considered “anyone” to be the direct descendant of Jesus-Mary Magdalene – but “rejecting only that of the bumbling Monsieur Plantard”. So someone wrote.... (!)

During the 1990s Plantard claimed that he represented merely a cadet branch of the Merovingians and that the true legitimate Merovingian claimant to the throne of France was Otto Von Habsburg (1912-2011).

As for the name Priory of Sion – was it named after the Sion of the Jews or was it named after the Sion of the Anti-Semitic Crusader knight Godfrey de Bouillon? You would never think of Godfrey de Bouillon as being Anti-Semitic (nor, for that matter, Maurice Barrès). Yet Godfrey de Bouillon was as much importance to Pierre Plantard during the 1990s as he was during the 1960s.

Can anyone see anything in “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” that would serve as a STARTING POINT to such a hilarious theory as the “Jesus-Magdalene bloodline”? It's rather like watching the movie “Citizen Kane” but without “Rosebud”.

Looking-up “Jesus-Magdalene” bloodline on any internet search engine fails to find an answer to this question. But since when did Believers need proof? The whole thing is, after all, a Religion.