Yeah I read it a long time ago as well, back in about 1995 or so when I was reading a couple of John J. Robinson's books like Born in Blood, Dungeon, Fire and Sword ~The Knights Templar in the Crusades, and Pilgrim's Path, which has something to do with Freemasonry and History of Templar's. At that time this book was also recommended. I'd actually like to see a site where that book Holy Blood ~ Holy Grail is discussed. Quite a Theory. I wonder what we have left to unearth, or what truths are being withheld from us, or for that matter I wonder if that French guy "supposed decendant" has ever had a DNA test. And just so everyone knows I don't believe everything I read.... But still, there are things that make you go hmmmm....
Right now my copy of this book is in colorado where my oldest brother has now read it. I puchased my own copy a few years back.
For anyone interested: one overview reads like this.
Overview
Holy Blood~Holy Grail details the authors' own quest for the Holy Grail by investigating the alleged mysteries of the village of Rennes-le-Château dating from the 1950s in southern France and constructing a conspiratorial view of the history of the Western world.
After a decade of research and speculation, Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln came to the following conclusions:
Poussin's Et in Arcadia ego features prominently in the authors' questThere is a secret society known as Priory of Sion (PS) that has a long and illustrious history dating back to the First Crusade starting with the creation of the Knights Templar as its military and financial front. The PS is led by a Grand Master or Nautonnier.
It is devoted to returning the Merovingian dynasty, that ruled the Frankish kingdom from A.D. 447 to 751, to the thrones of Europe and Jerusalem.
The order protects these royal claimants because they may be the literal descendants of Jesus and his wife Mary Magdalene or, at the very least, of king David and high priest Aaron.
The Roman Catholic Church tried to kill off all remnants of this dynasty and their guardians, the Cathars and the Templars, during the Inquisition, in order to maintain power through the apostolic succession of Peter instead of the hereditary succession of Mary Magdalene.
It is generally presumed the authors knew these claims to be at best unprovable, or false. In fact, Richard Leigh has stated on television that they only set out to offer a plausible hypothesis, but "never believed it to be true."
