The Pierre Plantard Story (Again...)
Paul Smith
20.10.2021
There is a website in existence by Angelo Cipriani that takes the Philippe de Chérisey “parchments” seriously (debunked for a very long time) and also has a section on the “Jesus Christ Bloodline” that it also takes seriously. If Angelo Cipriani is related to Domizio Cipriani then the latter has been very busy recently writing books about the Priory of Sion – Templar Order: Il cammino dei templari, la via verso la saggezza (2016), Le Prieuré de Sion: Una scienza sociale (2018) and Le Prieuré de Sion: Una scienza sociale (2018). He also uses YouTube as a Platform to spread his fantasy propaganda: “Templari e Rosacroce. L'Ordine di Oriente” (2019). If this has got anything to do with the modern Priory of Sion run by Marco Rigamonti and Gino Sandri then it is a worthless conflation of the 1967 “Dossiers Secrets” version and the post 1988 version of the Priory of Sion that Plantard imbued with a brand new pedigree, orgin and history. Two contradictory accounts have been meshed together into one. If this is all the case, as I suspect it is, then Angelo and Domizio Cipriani have got an axe to grind with a biased agenda to uphold – and nothing by them can ever be taken seriously. Certainly taking the “parchments” and the “Jesus Bloodline” seriously gives us all cause to burst out laughing. They give a version of Plantard's Trial that can only be taken with a grain of salt that comes from those who seriously believe in the Priory of Sion!
For an example of the difference between the 1967 and 1989 versions of the Priory of Sion, from Vaincre, Number 3, 1989: “
We are now able to officially state that the PRIORY OF SION has no direct or indirect connection with the ORDER OF THE TEMPLE, and that all this fantastic succession of Grand-Masters that authors such as Philippe TOSCAN, Mathieu PAOLI, Henry LINCOLN, Michael BAIGENT, Richard LEIGH, etc. have attributed to it derive merely from people’s imaginations and the realm of fantasy.”
Pierre Plantard distanced himself from the “The Jesus Bloodline” shortly after the publication of “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” on French Radio in February 1982.
The biggest split between Pierre Plantard and the authors of “Holy Blood and Holy Grail” came when Louis Vazart published his book Dagobert II et le mystère de la cité royale de Stenay (1983), that contained new “parchments” without commentary. The authors of “Holy Blood” decided to utilise those “parchments” to form a Priory of Sion of their own – to do with
The Guardian Assurance Company (quickly forgotten nonsense). It was all explained in the rather boring and tawdry book “The Messianic Legacy” (1986).
Judge Thierry Jean-Pierre, who prosecuted Pierre Plantard in 1993, gave an interview on French Television in 2004.
Henry Lincoln eventually split with Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh – deciding to attend the private talks of David Wood at his home on the Sacred Landscape Geometry of Rennes-le-Château – that inspired him to write his own Geometry in “The Holy Place” (1994).
Needless to say, it's highly doubtful that any of this would be of any interest to Angelo and Domizio Cipriani, Gino Sandri or Marco Rigamonti (or to their merry band of followers).
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