The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar (43 page)

1
. Frances Gies,
The Knight in History
(New York: Harper and Row, 1984), pp. 108–19.

2
. Claude Marks,
Pilgrims, Heretics and Lovers
(New York: Macmillan, 1975), p. 286.

3
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, p. 386.

4
. Ibid., p. 344.

5
. Morrison,
op. cit.,
pp. 20–21.

6
. Sinclair,
op. cit.,
p. 167.

7
. Ibid., pp. 179–80.

8
. Fitzroy Maclean,
Scotland
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1970), p. 78.

9
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, pp. 111–30.

10
. John J. Robinson,
Dungeon, Fire and Sword
(New York: M. Evans Co., 1991), pp. 36–39.

11
. Michael Grant,
Jesus: The History of Ancient Israel
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1984), p. 19.

12
. Jerry M. Landay,
The House of David
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973), pp. 219–35.

13
. Samuel Sandmel,
Herod: Profile of a Tyrant
(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1967), pp. 210–11.

14
. Michael Grant,
An Historian’s Review of the Bible
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977), pp. 153–68.

15
. Graham Hancock,
The Sign and the Seal
(New York: Crown, 1992), pp. 360–64.

16
. Ibid., pp. 409–11.

17
. Ibid., pp. 64–66.

18
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, pp. 306–9.

19
. Malachi Martin,
The Keys of This Blood
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 519.

20
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, pp. 316–22.

21
. Grant,
Jesus: An Historian’s Review of the Bible,
pp. 68–77.

22
. John J. Robinson,
Born in Blood
, pp. 214–15.

23
. Hugh J. Schonfield,
The Passover Plot
(Netherlands: Bernard Geis, 1965), pp. 37-38.

24
. Grant,
Jesus: An Historian’s Review of the Bible,
pp. 45–61.

25
. Gospel of Mark 3:34–35 (also Mark 6).

26
. Grant,
Jesus: An Historian’s Review of the Bible,
pp. 68–77.

27
. Ibid., pp. 7–29.

28
. Hugh J. Schonfield,
The Original New Testament
(Rockport, Mass.: Element, 1985), p. 11.

29
. Eusebius,
The History of the Church
(New York: Penguin Books, 1989) p. 59.

30
. Ibid., p. 38.

31
. Schonfield,
The Passover Plot
, p. 52.

32
. Eusebius,
op. cit.,
pp. 79–82.

33
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, pp. 333–38.

34
. Ibid., p. 338.

35
. Ibid., pp. 366–67.

36
. Barbara W. Tuchman,
Bible and Sword
(New York: New York University Press, 1956), pp. 13–21.

37
. Ibid., p. 14.

38
. Eusebius,
op. cit.,
pp. 65–104.

39
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, pp. 398–413.

40
. Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince,
Turin Shroud
(New York: HarperCollins, 1994), p. 71.

1
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail,
pp. 99–103.

2
. Hugh J. Schonfield,
The Passover Plot,
p. 100.

3
. Ibid., pp. 129–42.

4
. Tuchman,
Bible and Sword,
pp. 13–21.

5
. Paul MacKendrick,
Roman France
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1972), pp. 18–21.

6
. Ibid., p. 73.

7
. Tuchman,
Bible and Sword
pp. 7–12.

8
. Rosemarie Arnold,
Baedecker’s France
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1992), pp. 52–53.

9
. MacKendrick,
Roman France,
p. 12.

10
. Eusebius,
op. cit.
, p. 139.

11
. Werner Keller,
Diaspora: The Post-Biblical History of the Jews
(New York: Harcourt Brace and World, 1969), pp. 66–87.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Susan Haskins,
Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor
(New York: Riverhead Books, 1993), p. 218.

14
. Ibid., pp. 119, 124–25.

15
. Ibid., pp. 115–19.

16
. Ibid., p. 418. Also see Aedeen Cremin,
The Celts in Europe
(Sydney: University of Sydney, 1993), for discussion of the Delphi treasure.

17
. Claude Marks,
Pilgrims, Heretics and Lovers,
(New York: Macmillan, 1975), p. 309.

18
. Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls,
Southwest France: Dordogne, Lot and Bordeaux
(London: Cadogan Books, 1994), p. 175.

19
. Ibid., pp. 36–40.

20
. Ian Wood,
The Merovingian Kingdoms 450–75
1
,
(London: Longman, 1994), pp. 6–14.

21
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail,
pp. 250–51.

22
. Wood,
The Merovingian Kingdoms 450–75
1
,
pp. 6–7.

23
. Haskins,
op. cit.,
p. 88. Origen, of course, was later regarded as heretical, although this did not stop Eusebius from defending him (Book VI).

24
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail,
pp. 389–97.

25
. Ibid.

26
. John J. Robinson,
Dungeon, Fire and Sword
(New York: M. Evans and Company, 1991), pp. 223–24.

27
. Ibid., p. 224.

28
. Marks,
op. cit.,
pp. 282–95.

29
. Zoe Oldenbourg,
Massacre at Montsegur
(translated by Peter Green) (London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1961), p. 345.

30
. Revelations 22:16.

1
. Jean Blum,
Rennes-le-Chateau,
Wisigoths, Cathares, Templiers: Le Secret des Heretiques
(Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1994), pp. 13-18.

2
. Ibid., pp. 53–55. Also see Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe,
Secrets of Rennes-le-Chateau
(York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1992), for a review of the murder of the notary and several other local murders.

3
. Wilson,
Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries
, pp. 197–209.

4
. Ibid.

5
. Blum,
op. cit.,
p. 44.

6
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, pp. 31–47.

7
. Fanthorpe and Fanthorpe,
op. cit.,
pp. 139–42.

8
. Ibid.

9
. Wood,
The Merovingian Kingdoms
450–751,
pp. 221–22.

10
. Ibid., p. 223.

11
. Matthew 1:1–18.

12
. Eusebius,
op. cit.,
pp. 22–23.

13
. Ibid., pp. 79–80.

14
. Wood,
The Merovingian Kingdoms
450–751,
p. 37.

15
. Ibid., pp. 41–50.

16
. Gregory of Tours,
The History of the Franks
(London: Penguin Books, 1974), p. 151.

17
. Ibid., pp. 123–24.

18
. Ibid., pp. 231–34.

19
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
, pp. 261–65.

1
. Norma Lorre Goodrich,
Ancient Myths,
(New York: Penguin, 1994), pp. 75–90.

2
. Michael Grant,
The History of Ancient Israel,
pp. 16–21.

3
. Ibid., pp. 77–83.

4
. Jerry M. Landay,
The House of David
(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1973), pp. 108–10.

5
. Zecharia Sitchin,
When Time Began
(New York: Avon Books, 1993), pp. 86–88.

6
. Grant,
The History of Ancient Israel,
pp. 77–83.

7
. James Bailey,
The God-Kings and the Titans
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1973), pp. 130–31.

8
. Landay,
op. cit.,
pp. 203–17.

9
. Robinson,
Born in Blood,
pp. 111, 217–18.

10
. For a discussion of the orientation of ancient structures and just how recently modern science has begun to accept “archaeo-astronomy,” see E. C. Krupp, ed.,
In Search of Ancient Astronomies,
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. ix–xv.

11
. Robinson,
Born in Blood,
pp. 274–76.

12
. Hancock,
op. cit.,
pp. 44–55.

13
. Robert Graves,
The White Goddess
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1948), p. 406.

14
. Hancock,
op. cit.,
pp. 366–70.

15
. Grant,
The History of Ancient Israel,
pp. 89–90.

16
. Robinson,
Born in Blood,
pp. 178, 213.

17
. Bailey,
op. cit.,
pp. 94–95.

18
. Norma Lorre Goodrich,
The Holy Grail
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 74–80.

19
. Roger Sherman Loomis,
The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991), pp. 24, 28–29.

20
. Julius Caesar,
The Conquest of Gaul,
trans. S. A. Handford (London: Penguin, 1988), pp. 58–61.

21
. Arnold,
op. cit.,
pp. 154–55.

22
. Keller,
op. cit.
The story of attitudes and treatment toward the Jews in medieval France begins on p. 112.

23
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail,
pp. 392–93.

24
. Ibid., pp. 254–58.

25
. Ibid., pp. 389–97.

26
. Pierre Riche,
Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne
, trans. Jo Ann McNamara (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978), pp. 126–30.

27
. Steven Runciman,
A History of the Crusades,
vol. 1 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 10–11. On May 5 of the year
A.D
. 614, the Persians entered Jerusalem with the aid of the Jews. Christians were massacred, more by Jews than by Persian soldiers, which was neither forgiven nor forgotten.

28
. Robinson,
Born in Blood,
p. 66.

29
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail,
pp. 111–18.

30
. Runciman,
op. cit.,
pp. 292–93.

31
. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,
Holy Blood, Holy Grail,
p. 119.

32
. Ibid., p. 131.

33
. Marks,
op. cit.,
pp. 235–49.

34
. Robinson,
Born in Blood,
pp. 224–34.

35
. Loomis,
op. cit.,
pp. 163–69.

36
. Robinson,
Born in Blood,
pp. 224–30.

37
. Baigent and Leigh,
op. cit.,
p. 151.

38
. Richenda Miers,
op. cit.,
pp. 148–49.

39
. Robinson,
Born in Blood,
p. 217.

40
. Baigent and Leigh,
op. cit.,
p. 111.

41
. Sinclair,
op. cit.,
pp. 180–91.