Tim Wallace-Murphy definitely represented Fringe History instead of Mainstream Accepted History – and was a tireless pursuer of the Rosslyn Myth and the imaginary discovery of America by the Knights Templar.

Tim Wallace-Murphy believed in the marriage of Jesus Christ to Mary Magdalene – this knowledge later “sprang into the later important branches of nobility and royal houses of France and Western Europe”. (The “pockets of Jesus people” were opposed to the heretical teachings of the Apostle Paul.) This was somehow related to the activities of Bérenger Saunière at Rennes-le-Château.

However, because Tim Wallace-Murphy dismissed the Priory of Sion, he promoted a pedigree called Rex Deus that was different to what was found in The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail.

The similarity between Rex Deus: The True Mystery of Rennes-le-Château and the Dynasty of Jesus (2000) and The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail (1982) lay in the sheer lack of historical provenance that was missing from both books. Tim Wallace-Murphy’s informant about Rex Deus was someone called “Michael” who claimed he was the direct descendant of Hugues de Payens, the first grand master of the Knights Templar (as well as being a “member of a group of families that who claimed descent from the Davidic and Hasmonean royal families of Biblical Israel, or from the 24 High Priests of the Temple of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus”). Many people doubt that “Michael” ever existed in the first place.

The book, Rex Deus: The Families of The Grail, co-authored by Cyndi & Tim Wallace-Murphy (2017), claimed that “the Rex Deus families, the descendants of the ma’madot [hereditary high priests of the temple in Jerusalem], which included the Desposyni the direct descendants of Jesus, spread throughout Europe, Asia Minor and The Middle East seeking sanctuary from Imperial persecution.”

Tim Wallace-Murphy authored about seven books and co-authored four more, most of which can be dismissed. Several documentaries were also made that served as Tim Wallace-Murphy vehicles.

Tim Wallace-Murphy was just another waste-of-time author holding Knights Templar fantasies (that could never be endorsed by any scholar) with a so-called “Jesus Christ Bloodline” (that is without any historical provenance).