The Delmas Manuscript
and the Tomb of an important Roman?
PART TWO
We have seen in Part One how the Priory of Sion (mainly Pierre Plantard and Philippe de Cherisey) manipulated a nineteenth century work - Les inscriptions antiques des Pyrénées by Julien Sacaze - to draw attention to the concept of an important burial in the region of Rennes-les-Bains. This figure is known as the Grand Roman. Its not clear why this is related to Sauniere and the enigma of Rennes-le-Chateau, but for Cherisey et al this Grand Roman was/is important.
Who did they think the Grand Roman was? For Plantard it was the Roman general Pompey. There is a purported letter from Plantard sent in answer to some questions raised by a researcher. Here is the letter in its entirety;
"Thank you for your letter of 25 July 1990, which reached me (after a short delay) in Perpignan, which I am currently passing through on my way back from Barcelona.
I have written one book, entitled "L'Or de Rennes", which was published under the name of Gérard de Sède about 25 years ago, but this was only a novel, and since then some treasure-hunters who believed that the story contained in it was actually true have invented all sorts of documents that lead back to Rennes.
I have not undertaken any researches in the Caves de la Reine (in the Rennes district), nor in the Souterrains du Roi ("underground chambers of the King"), so there have not been any researches or investigations on my own property.
This property (according to the calculations of the surveyors, as the land registry entry was modified in 1987) has a surface area of 47 or 48 thousand square metres held by a sole tenant. It has the following boundaries: to the South – chemin de Farres; to the North – Roc Pointu; to the East – the main road to Rennes-les-Bains; to the West – the mountain top. On my property are two mines: a copper mine and a gold mine. The copper mine was excavated on the orders of Colbert, while the other one, the gold mine, dates from the Roman era, from about 70 BC. This piece of land is called Roc Nègre.
Across the whole 48,000 square metres there is not a single square metre that has escaped the attentions of those vandals who style themselves "researchers", and that's been going on for 25 years now!
You refer to the tombstone of Coumesourde. I'm sorry to have to disappoint you, but it simply never existed. On the other hand there IS a text dated 1880 or 1890 written by the engineer Ernest Cros based on the Zero Meridian of Paris and the English equivalent in Greenwich (the latter being situated at 9 metres 20.9 seconds west of the Paris Meridian). The triangulation for this study was based at Pontils, between Peyrolles/Serres, at the location of a tomb.
The "secret location" to which you refer is the Roman tomb (50-48 BC) called the Tomb of Gnaius Pompey, which is located in Fangalots at a distance of 1 kilometre 500 metres from my property. It is located between two belfries –those of Rennes-les-Bains and Rennes-le-Château, at 500 metres’ distance from the belfry of Rennes-les-Bains.
With all good wishes, and please do keep me informed of your researches,"1.
I have highlighted the most important aspects of this letter in the context of this present article. So, for Plantard, note, that an important tomb existed near his property which was 'known' as the tomb of Gnaius Pompey. He adds a further piece of information - that this tomb is located in Fangalots. Fangalots is a place in the vicinity of Rennes-les-Bains (see Google Map below).
Who did they think the Grand Roman was? For Plantard it was the Roman general Pompey. There is a purported letter from Plantard sent in answer to some questions raised by a researcher. Here is the letter in its entirety;
"Thank you for your letter of 25 July 1990, which reached me (after a short delay) in Perpignan, which I am currently passing through on my way back from Barcelona.
I have written one book, entitled "L'Or de Rennes", which was published under the name of Gérard de Sède about 25 years ago, but this was only a novel, and since then some treasure-hunters who believed that the story contained in it was actually true have invented all sorts of documents that lead back to Rennes.
I have not undertaken any researches in the Caves de la Reine (in the Rennes district), nor in the Souterrains du Roi ("underground chambers of the King"), so there have not been any researches or investigations on my own property.
This property (according to the calculations of the surveyors, as the land registry entry was modified in 1987) has a surface area of 47 or 48 thousand square metres held by a sole tenant. It has the following boundaries: to the South – chemin de Farres; to the North – Roc Pointu; to the East – the main road to Rennes-les-Bains; to the West – the mountain top. On my property are two mines: a copper mine and a gold mine. The copper mine was excavated on the orders of Colbert, while the other one, the gold mine, dates from the Roman era, from about 70 BC. This piece of land is called Roc Nègre.
Across the whole 48,000 square metres there is not a single square metre that has escaped the attentions of those vandals who style themselves "researchers", and that's been going on for 25 years now!
You refer to the tombstone of Coumesourde. I'm sorry to have to disappoint you, but it simply never existed. On the other hand there IS a text dated 1880 or 1890 written by the engineer Ernest Cros based on the Zero Meridian of Paris and the English equivalent in Greenwich (the latter being situated at 9 metres 20.9 seconds west of the Paris Meridian). The triangulation for this study was based at Pontils, between Peyrolles/Serres, at the location of a tomb.
The "secret location" to which you refer is the Roman tomb (50-48 BC) called the Tomb of Gnaius Pompey, which is located in Fangalots at a distance of 1 kilometre 500 metres from my property. It is located between two belfries –those of Rennes-les-Bains and Rennes-le-Château, at 500 metres’ distance from the belfry of Rennes-les-Bains.
With all good wishes, and please do keep me informed of your researches,"1.
I have highlighted the most important aspects of this letter in the context of this present article. So, for Plantard, note, that an important tomb existed near his property which was 'known' as the tomb of Gnaius Pompey. He adds a further piece of information - that this tomb is located in Fangalots. Fangalots is a place in the vicinity of Rennes-les-Bains (see Google Map below).
Local priest Henri Boudet, born November 16, 1837 at Quillan was appointed priest of Rennes-les-Bains in 1872. For ten years he wrote The True Celtic Language and Cromleck Rennes-les-Bains, a book he published in 1886. This strange book is said to carry a code decipherable only by using the method called "The Language of Birds". He died after a long illness on March 30, 1915 at Axat. In his book, Boudet mentions Fangalots. After dicsussing human sacrifices carried out by Druids (which, Boudet wrote, Ceasar had referred to in his 'Gallic Wars'), Boudet wrote;
"The punishment [murder/sacrifice] was usually reserved for criminals, and is written on the Celtic ground - we find the term Fangallots, which is designating land in Rennes-les-Bains, in the steep slope down towards where the spa is built - that of Bain-Doux. Fangallots means
"disappear from the gallows", to faint (Fent) disappear, gallows (galleuce), gallows, gibbet. The descendants of the Tectosages, keeping the Gallic customs, have always used the gallows against criminals, and even today, hanging is the Anglo-Saxons only method practiced for the
punishment of criminals sentenced by the courts to the death penalty".
The Priory of Sion duo of Plantard and Cherisey obviously knew about this Boudet reference, because to my astonishment, while perusing the Secret Dossiers i came across a statement in the text as follows;
"The decoration (to) the setting to the tomb referred to [i.e. the 14th station of the Cross at Rennes-le-Chateau] is ... of the necropolis of Fangallots at Rennes les Bains".
The quote was placed next to a picture of Sauniere's 14th station of the Cross. The quote seems to intimate that the art work would pertain to Fangalots. And that either Fangalots is related to a tomb of Pompey or even the historical Jesus Christ figure!
"The punishment [murder/sacrifice] was usually reserved for criminals, and is written on the Celtic ground - we find the term Fangallots, which is designating land in Rennes-les-Bains, in the steep slope down towards where the spa is built - that of Bain-Doux. Fangallots means
"disappear from the gallows", to faint (Fent) disappear, gallows (galleuce), gallows, gibbet. The descendants of the Tectosages, keeping the Gallic customs, have always used the gallows against criminals, and even today, hanging is the Anglo-Saxons only method practiced for the
punishment of criminals sentenced by the courts to the death penalty".
The Priory of Sion duo of Plantard and Cherisey obviously knew about this Boudet reference, because to my astonishment, while perusing the Secret Dossiers i came across a statement in the text as follows;
"The decoration (to) the setting to the tomb referred to [i.e. the 14th station of the Cross at Rennes-le-Chateau] is ... of the necropolis of Fangallots at Rennes les Bains".
The quote was placed next to a picture of Sauniere's 14th station of the Cross. The quote seems to intimate that the art work would pertain to Fangalots. And that either Fangalots is related to a tomb of Pompey or even the historical Jesus Christ figure!
How is one meant to interpret the statement that the decoration and depiction of the Station of the Cross is a reference to the 'necropolis of Fangallots at Rennes les Bains? It is totally bizarre. Are we supposed to understand that the necropolis holds the body of Jesus? Or is it only relevant in as much as the term Fangalots, as alluded to by Boudet, means human sacrifice as a punishment usually reserved for criminals? Some historians interpret the Crucifixion - in strict historical terms as the death penalty for a Jewish rebel and Messianic claimant who insighted violence and overthrow of the Roman authorities. It is often repeated that Crucifixion was the punishment metred out to criminals by the Romans. Why does Plantard associate Fangalots with Pompey?
The whole inference from the Priory propaganda about this necropolis is intriguing. What was first a tomb for a Grand Roman (Delmas style) has now morphed in to some kind of necropolis - where a necropolis (Greek plural: necropoleis; Latin plural: necropoles) is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The term comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead". Apart from the occasional application of
the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, it is chiefly used to refer to burial grounds near the centres of ancient civilizations, such as an abandoned city or town.
Why would Plantard, in his letter, refer to the tomb at Fangalots as that of Pompey? Historically Pompey's '...... fate was decided by the counselors of the young king Ptolemy XIII. While Pompey waited offshore, they argued the cost of offering him refuge with Caesar already en route to Egypt; the king's eunuch Pothinus won out. In the final dramatic passages of his biography, Plutarch had Cornelia watch anxiously from the trireme as Pompey left in a small boat with a few sullen, silent comrades, and headed for what appeared to be a welcoming party on the Egyptian shore. As Pompey rose to disembark, he was stabbed to death by his betrayers, Achillas, Septimius and Salvius". Later he was cremated. Any possible tomb at Fangalots quite obviously cannot be that of Pompey.
There are several ideas in the above Plantard letter which are also reflected in Cherisey's novel Circuit. Firstly is the suggestion that there are at least two different aspects to the 'treasure' connected to Rennes-le-Chateau. Plantard admits that he has not ' undertaken any researches in the Caves de la Reine (in the Rennes district), nor in the Souterrains du Roi ("underground chambers of the King")". What are the Caves of the Queen? And the underground chambers of the King? (in the case of the 'Souterrains du Roi' i am reminded of the Aniort family and their 'information from the archives of the House of Aniort which suggested a family document dating from the tenth century which said that "la pierre levee Pontils regarde des attics et aux caves du roi". I am also reminded that the Reddis Cellis stone is interpreted by some to refer to the 'depot, at Rennes, of the King').
In Circuit, pp109-110 we read the following exchange between two of the characters in the novel;
'Charlot - Hence it follows that Saunière succeeded as a local guardian?
Andresy - Abbe Boudet, of Rennes-les-Bains, whose book La Vrai Langue Celtique' (CARCASSONNE 1886) gave the cure (Sauniere?) the clues to track the Rosicrucian (or perhaps Rose -Croix) treasure [but he] was rather too indiscreet .... the clues given by the jewel of the father Voluta and the work of the Abbe Boudet denote the old jet mine located south of Rennes, on Mount Sarbairou. The 'opening' is in a place that is in front of you
- constantly evoked in the name of pierre de trou, du pain, or de pin. Having discovered the place and treasure in 1892, the abbe SAUNIERE took two years to empty it.2
Andresy - The caves of the queen, the king's fortress - here are two different zones of treasure. The cellars of the Queen are related to the pierre 'du pain' and we accede that it corresponds to the corn/wheat in the constellation of Virgo. Here Volques Tectosages have transferred the treasure of gold of Delphi.............'
Cherisey says here that Sauniere actually used the book written by Boudet to track the treasure of Rennes! On page 61 the details of that treasure have already been elucidated;
"...in case you suspect, like me, the well founded accusations that the enrichment of Saunière would appear to be due to the discovery of a treasure..... according to popular tradition there exists at Rennes a treasure of 350 million francs divided into 180 heavy caches. The origin of his fortune is the gold at Delphi, that of King Solomon, one of the Visigoths and the Merovingians. The Volques Tectosages guarded some of it ranging from small cures through the riphees who descended roseline, the Cathars of Montsegur and the Templars of the Languedoc".
Later, on p111;
'.... the fortress of the king is in the territory of 16 to 183 hectares indicated by the cadastre [map] under the appelation 'rokko negro'. The centre of Rennes and the pierre du pain are this
fortress which is found in the sign of Pisces (poisson/fish) - the treasure that is there is multiple in nature, such as precious stones by the Visigoths of the fifth century, gold and manuscripts by the Arabs who deposited [them in?] the tomb of Grand Roman between 711 and 715. I will add that the personality of the great Roman is not absolutely certain, the general thought was that it was Pompey (i.e. this is what Plantard advocated), but there is also... gerard de nerval, which would lean rather to the Emperor Nerva. This distinction between the two zones of treasure is both fundamental and related to the work of Saunière, who transferred to the fortress what was in the basement(?), but anyone that hasn't experienced the second will not know the first".
Another character in the novel, Critias, says;
"....a healthy religion does not break the idols......St Walfroid routed his Isis, or it is still buried in the courtyard of hotel at Rennes-les-Bains ......excavations bring to the surface a white marble dust"4.
Circuit continues;
"yes ... the next performance will be at Rennes-les-Bains - we plant our tent - and this I owe the pleasure to meet you. I'll explain the symbolism of the acacia, mimosa desert, which [was]
discovered in the tomb of the master? Not".
Charlot - We're too young.
Anne - Our age no longer counted.
Critias - so back to the tent which we will plant south of the village - on the left bank of
the sals, beyond the cemetery, after the main square and the church. Here stood a pagan temple ... fifteen meters high which was set fire to (by?) Charles Martel in the year 737 during his attempted invasion of Languedoc. Also the statue of Isis that comes with the other relics - a head of Mercury and an arm Jupiter holding a cloth, a hand holding an egg. This information comes from the memories of Abbe Delmas5 who, having been responsible for a flow of ink, was also responsible for the flow of even more saliva!
These extracts refer to the information contained in the Priory document called 'In the Country of the White Queen' (see here: http://www.rhedesium.com/in-the-country-of-the-white-queen.html). It is here that a huge pagan Temple is referred to.
Again, it is of interest to note that Boudet makes reference to a pagan temple. It occurs at the very end of his book The True Celtic Language and the Cromleck of Rennes-les-Bains. In the Chapter called: LES ROMAINS ET LA SOURCE THERMALE DE LA REINE Boudet writes;
"We have seen the explanations of Celtic monuments of the Redones of southern Gaul, what were the religious beliefs of the Celts. When foreigners, under the veil of commerce and alliance, invaded Gaul, these Gallic beliefs began to weaken in the minds of the population. The chiefs of the various tribes in freeing themselves from the supreme authority of Neimheid, decay set in, and when the nation, defeated by Caesar, became part of the Roman Empire, the ancient and pure religious beliefs taught by Druids, gave way to the idolatrous worship spread by the victors. The temples of the false gods have defiled your Celtic land, and the people humbled and perverted to worship Teutates, Belenus and Ogmius or Oghan. We can not bring ourselves to study the names of these false gods and idolatrous beliefs degenerate Gauls. The abyss in which they were trained is too horrible for us to dwell on the probe.
At that miserable time that preceded the arrival of the necessary and immediate Saviour awaited by the nations, the true religious meaning of the Cromleck disappears under all the
memories. The southern countries of the Redones had long been part of the Province, and the Romans had built a temple in the valley of the Sals, and baths at the source de la Reine. A new village was built on the plateau of Villanova, overlooking the spa's north-east side.
The Romans left many traces of their extended stay in the Cromleck, medals and coins of gold, silver and bronze, from the triumvirate of Antony, Octavian and Lepidus, until the reign of the Emperor Gratian, whole amphorae, broken statues carved in white marble, capitals and bases of columns and carved inscriptions in stone.
The Southern Redones spent a relatively short time in the foolish superstitions of paganism. The proconsul Sergius Paulus, a disciple of the apostle St Paul came to bring the Gospel to the south of Gaul and had established its headquarters in Narbonne. Christian missionaries sent by the illustrious and holy Bishop to conquer the truth, the hearts and minds of the Gauls of Narbonne, understood, when entering the Cromleck of Redones, the respect with which they [were] surrounded - the stones that had been cut or removed, a respect [which soon] became idolatrous, and they burnt the Greek crosses on all points of the circle of stones at the entrance to the Cromleck, other crosses, at Roukats, at Serbaïrou on the crest of the Pla de la Coste et de las Brugos, Cugulhou.
So, on the edge of the cap dé l'Hommé on the top of a Menir, opposite the pagan temple, converted into a Christian church later destroyed by fire, was carved a beautiful head of the Saviour looking over the valley, over all the dominant Celtic monuments which had lost their teachings. The victorious cross against paganism, has not ceased to reign in the Cromleck of Rennes-les-Bains, and still maintains, engraved in the religious heart of its inhabitants, the commandments of life given to the world by the Eternal Truth".
Again i have highlighted the relevant points. Cherisey and Plantard must have read Boudet, for in Circuit Cherisey has Critias saying that the pagan temple was on the left bank of the Sals, exactly as Boudet had said. This Temple he says, was built by the Romans along with the Baths. However, as we also see, Boudet says it is the 'pagan Temple, coverted to a Christian church', opposite the Cap de l'homme which was destroyed by fire! Just what is being intimated behind these allusions to pagan Temples, tombs, Fangalots and a Grand Roman?
It may also be significant about the 'beautiful head of the Saviour' which Boudet says is in the posession of Mr. Cailhol of Alet (for more on this see http://www.rhedesium.com/rennes-les-bains-note-on-a-carved-head-by-unbspgibert-and-gnbsprancoule.html). Bizarrely Alet has its own Saviour (St Salvayre church) and also some kind of worship of a Head. The site of Saint Salvayre has a place called the "dead man", a place beyond the merely symbolic, and it can be assumed that the eight carved heads on the church guard it. Intriguingly there was a ninth head, "the head of the Saviour," which was the subject of an annual procession for the inhabitants of Alet (http://desorchideesetdesorties.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2010/01/29/enigme-a-saint-salvayre-escale-sur-le-chemin-des-menhirs.html). Uncannily similar to Boudet? We think so. It seems to come full circle when we look at the stones of Pompeius, also linked to a temple at Alet.
The Pompeius stone, at Rennes-les-Bains, for Fedie, was "discovered at Bains de Rennes, more than a century ago, in a piece of old wall surrounding the source of the Reine". Then perhaps this stone is contemporaneous with those Romans that Boudet said had built the pagan Temple in the valley of the Sals and the baths at the source de la Reine? Was this Pompeius perhaps related to the building of these monuments?
And Circuit contines;
Critias - Panem and circuses will be the slogan of the circus.
Charlot - pranks, frescoes, togs
Critias - the great Pompey, it does not tell you anything, maybe?
Anne - Pompey the Great, he is
Critias - well, if Sertorius, his rival, is buried in the island of iron, then he [is?] even buried in Rennes, basing the dialogue between the two zero meridians. Defeated by a naulogue6 -
the great Pompey was in Asia Minor and was assasinated at milet. Milesian philosophers embalmed his body [which] becomes an object of veneration until the Arabs seized the relic, the body was taken to Rennes during the invasion of Languedoc and the body was given an inviolable burial of marble and lead by Roc Negro. The funeral plaque still exists, you can see it at the museum of Perpignan - C. Pompey Quartus DM SVO.7
Here Critias is indeed referring not to Pompey, but to one of his sons, Sextus Pompeius, who was defeated in a naval battle off of the Naulochus cape. He was also caught in Miletus in 35 BC and executed without trial. It is not known what became of his body. Clearly in Circuit it is recounted that his body was 'embalmed and taken to Rennes'. Why did it become an object of veneration?
Circuit continues:
Charlot - dm
Critias - 'diis manibus' - the writing of Nostradamus DM.8
.... It is, in a circle of standing stones9...... embrace the great monarch with the great Roman
under the medusine 'ensigne'10 . It IS the devil sitting on a throne of stone11 and the very spot for centuries .... with the motto 'les treize ors de l'arene' (i.e. the treasures of Rennes). Finally, it is hidden in the bergere alignment of the three rocks, a black rock, yellowish sharp rock and a white rock corresponding respectively to Melchoir, Balthazar and Gaspard. All, depending on the mood, gives a sobering thought....
And in fact in the diagram below, there is a 'bergere' indicated on this 'map' - it is on an alignment with the Marie de Negre tombstone in the cemetery at Rennes-le-Chateau! Is this even the 'bergere' of the Large Parchment and cipher? ('Bergere pas de tentation, que Poussin Teniers gardent la clef'...). A further diagram identifies the 'maison de berger' - so there is a shepherdesss and shepherd of importance for some reason!
On p82-83 of Circuit:
anne - quia pulvis are
charlot - and pulvem reverteris
Critias - ah, here is the nepenthes!
She starts to evoke King Dagobert II - which signifies that he was faking his genealogy. She also tells them about his sword, which at the king's death, in 679, passed through the
hands of his youngest daughter Rathilde who thirteen years later gave it to her
husband Chilperic II12 We found the sword in Paley13, the 17th January 1913 in a burial - the
handle topped with gold leaf, encrusted with coloured stones, with four Merovingian bees, twenty four rectangles of gold and twenty eight cells ..... and she goes in search of Temperantia14.....rock n roll, rocks and roulers, and then ........treasure in the
cellars of the king, the queen of the citadel".
There are several Cherisey/Plantard diagrams which include the Pompeius stone in the Priory propaganda. They are shown below:
The whole inference from the Priory propaganda about this necropolis is intriguing. What was first a tomb for a Grand Roman (Delmas style) has now morphed in to some kind of necropolis - where a necropolis (Greek plural: necropoleis; Latin plural: necropoles) is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The term comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead". Apart from the occasional application of
the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, it is chiefly used to refer to burial grounds near the centres of ancient civilizations, such as an abandoned city or town.
Why would Plantard, in his letter, refer to the tomb at Fangalots as that of Pompey? Historically Pompey's '...... fate was decided by the counselors of the young king Ptolemy XIII. While Pompey waited offshore, they argued the cost of offering him refuge with Caesar already en route to Egypt; the king's eunuch Pothinus won out. In the final dramatic passages of his biography, Plutarch had Cornelia watch anxiously from the trireme as Pompey left in a small boat with a few sullen, silent comrades, and headed for what appeared to be a welcoming party on the Egyptian shore. As Pompey rose to disembark, he was stabbed to death by his betrayers, Achillas, Septimius and Salvius". Later he was cremated. Any possible tomb at Fangalots quite obviously cannot be that of Pompey.
There are several ideas in the above Plantard letter which are also reflected in Cherisey's novel Circuit. Firstly is the suggestion that there are at least two different aspects to the 'treasure' connected to Rennes-le-Chateau. Plantard admits that he has not ' undertaken any researches in the Caves de la Reine (in the Rennes district), nor in the Souterrains du Roi ("underground chambers of the King")". What are the Caves of the Queen? And the underground chambers of the King? (in the case of the 'Souterrains du Roi' i am reminded of the Aniort family and their 'information from the archives of the House of Aniort which suggested a family document dating from the tenth century which said that "la pierre levee Pontils regarde des attics et aux caves du roi". I am also reminded that the Reddis Cellis stone is interpreted by some to refer to the 'depot, at Rennes, of the King').
In Circuit, pp109-110 we read the following exchange between two of the characters in the novel;
'Charlot - Hence it follows that Saunière succeeded as a local guardian?
Andresy - Abbe Boudet, of Rennes-les-Bains, whose book La Vrai Langue Celtique' (CARCASSONNE 1886) gave the cure (Sauniere?) the clues to track the Rosicrucian (or perhaps Rose -Croix) treasure [but he] was rather too indiscreet .... the clues given by the jewel of the father Voluta and the work of the Abbe Boudet denote the old jet mine located south of Rennes, on Mount Sarbairou. The 'opening' is in a place that is in front of you
- constantly evoked in the name of pierre de trou, du pain, or de pin. Having discovered the place and treasure in 1892, the abbe SAUNIERE took two years to empty it.2
Andresy - The caves of the queen, the king's fortress - here are two different zones of treasure. The cellars of the Queen are related to the pierre 'du pain' and we accede that it corresponds to the corn/wheat in the constellation of Virgo. Here Volques Tectosages have transferred the treasure of gold of Delphi.............'
Cherisey says here that Sauniere actually used the book written by Boudet to track the treasure of Rennes! On page 61 the details of that treasure have already been elucidated;
"...in case you suspect, like me, the well founded accusations that the enrichment of Saunière would appear to be due to the discovery of a treasure..... according to popular tradition there exists at Rennes a treasure of 350 million francs divided into 180 heavy caches. The origin of his fortune is the gold at Delphi, that of King Solomon, one of the Visigoths and the Merovingians. The Volques Tectosages guarded some of it ranging from small cures through the riphees who descended roseline, the Cathars of Montsegur and the Templars of the Languedoc".
Later, on p111;
'.... the fortress of the king is in the territory of 16 to 183 hectares indicated by the cadastre [map] under the appelation 'rokko negro'. The centre of Rennes and the pierre du pain are this
fortress which is found in the sign of Pisces (poisson/fish) - the treasure that is there is multiple in nature, such as precious stones by the Visigoths of the fifth century, gold and manuscripts by the Arabs who deposited [them in?] the tomb of Grand Roman between 711 and 715. I will add that the personality of the great Roman is not absolutely certain, the general thought was that it was Pompey (i.e. this is what Plantard advocated), but there is also... gerard de nerval, which would lean rather to the Emperor Nerva. This distinction between the two zones of treasure is both fundamental and related to the work of Saunière, who transferred to the fortress what was in the basement(?), but anyone that hasn't experienced the second will not know the first".
Another character in the novel, Critias, says;
"....a healthy religion does not break the idols......St Walfroid routed his Isis, or it is still buried in the courtyard of hotel at Rennes-les-Bains ......excavations bring to the surface a white marble dust"4.
Circuit continues;
"yes ... the next performance will be at Rennes-les-Bains - we plant our tent - and this I owe the pleasure to meet you. I'll explain the symbolism of the acacia, mimosa desert, which [was]
discovered in the tomb of the master? Not".
Charlot - We're too young.
Anne - Our age no longer counted.
Critias - so back to the tent which we will plant south of the village - on the left bank of
the sals, beyond the cemetery, after the main square and the church. Here stood a pagan temple ... fifteen meters high which was set fire to (by?) Charles Martel in the year 737 during his attempted invasion of Languedoc. Also the statue of Isis that comes with the other relics - a head of Mercury and an arm Jupiter holding a cloth, a hand holding an egg. This information comes from the memories of Abbe Delmas5 who, having been responsible for a flow of ink, was also responsible for the flow of even more saliva!
These extracts refer to the information contained in the Priory document called 'In the Country of the White Queen' (see here: http://www.rhedesium.com/in-the-country-of-the-white-queen.html). It is here that a huge pagan Temple is referred to.
Again, it is of interest to note that Boudet makes reference to a pagan temple. It occurs at the very end of his book The True Celtic Language and the Cromleck of Rennes-les-Bains. In the Chapter called: LES ROMAINS ET LA SOURCE THERMALE DE LA REINE Boudet writes;
"We have seen the explanations of Celtic monuments of the Redones of southern Gaul, what were the religious beliefs of the Celts. When foreigners, under the veil of commerce and alliance, invaded Gaul, these Gallic beliefs began to weaken in the minds of the population. The chiefs of the various tribes in freeing themselves from the supreme authority of Neimheid, decay set in, and when the nation, defeated by Caesar, became part of the Roman Empire, the ancient and pure religious beliefs taught by Druids, gave way to the idolatrous worship spread by the victors. The temples of the false gods have defiled your Celtic land, and the people humbled and perverted to worship Teutates, Belenus and Ogmius or Oghan. We can not bring ourselves to study the names of these false gods and idolatrous beliefs degenerate Gauls. The abyss in which they were trained is too horrible for us to dwell on the probe.
At that miserable time that preceded the arrival of the necessary and immediate Saviour awaited by the nations, the true religious meaning of the Cromleck disappears under all the
memories. The southern countries of the Redones had long been part of the Province, and the Romans had built a temple in the valley of the Sals, and baths at the source de la Reine. A new village was built on the plateau of Villanova, overlooking the spa's north-east side.
The Romans left many traces of their extended stay in the Cromleck, medals and coins of gold, silver and bronze, from the triumvirate of Antony, Octavian and Lepidus, until the reign of the Emperor Gratian, whole amphorae, broken statues carved in white marble, capitals and bases of columns and carved inscriptions in stone.
The Southern Redones spent a relatively short time in the foolish superstitions of paganism. The proconsul Sergius Paulus, a disciple of the apostle St Paul came to bring the Gospel to the south of Gaul and had established its headquarters in Narbonne. Christian missionaries sent by the illustrious and holy Bishop to conquer the truth, the hearts and minds of the Gauls of Narbonne, understood, when entering the Cromleck of Redones, the respect with which they [were] surrounded - the stones that had been cut or removed, a respect [which soon] became idolatrous, and they burnt the Greek crosses on all points of the circle of stones at the entrance to the Cromleck, other crosses, at Roukats, at Serbaïrou on the crest of the Pla de la Coste et de las Brugos, Cugulhou.
So, on the edge of the cap dé l'Hommé on the top of a Menir, opposite the pagan temple, converted into a Christian church later destroyed by fire, was carved a beautiful head of the Saviour looking over the valley, over all the dominant Celtic monuments which had lost their teachings. The victorious cross against paganism, has not ceased to reign in the Cromleck of Rennes-les-Bains, and still maintains, engraved in the religious heart of its inhabitants, the commandments of life given to the world by the Eternal Truth".
Again i have highlighted the relevant points. Cherisey and Plantard must have read Boudet, for in Circuit Cherisey has Critias saying that the pagan temple was on the left bank of the Sals, exactly as Boudet had said. This Temple he says, was built by the Romans along with the Baths. However, as we also see, Boudet says it is the 'pagan Temple, coverted to a Christian church', opposite the Cap de l'homme which was destroyed by fire! Just what is being intimated behind these allusions to pagan Temples, tombs, Fangalots and a Grand Roman?
It may also be significant about the 'beautiful head of the Saviour' which Boudet says is in the posession of Mr. Cailhol of Alet (for more on this see http://www.rhedesium.com/rennes-les-bains-note-on-a-carved-head-by-unbspgibert-and-gnbsprancoule.html). Bizarrely Alet has its own Saviour (St Salvayre church) and also some kind of worship of a Head. The site of Saint Salvayre has a place called the "dead man", a place beyond the merely symbolic, and it can be assumed that the eight carved heads on the church guard it. Intriguingly there was a ninth head, "the head of the Saviour," which was the subject of an annual procession for the inhabitants of Alet (http://desorchideesetdesorties.20minutes-blogs.fr/archive/2010/01/29/enigme-a-saint-salvayre-escale-sur-le-chemin-des-menhirs.html). Uncannily similar to Boudet? We think so. It seems to come full circle when we look at the stones of Pompeius, also linked to a temple at Alet.
The Pompeius stone, at Rennes-les-Bains, for Fedie, was "discovered at Bains de Rennes, more than a century ago, in a piece of old wall surrounding the source of the Reine". Then perhaps this stone is contemporaneous with those Romans that Boudet said had built the pagan Temple in the valley of the Sals and the baths at the source de la Reine? Was this Pompeius perhaps related to the building of these monuments?
And Circuit contines;
Critias - Panem and circuses will be the slogan of the circus.
Charlot - pranks, frescoes, togs
Critias - the great Pompey, it does not tell you anything, maybe?
Anne - Pompey the Great, he is
Critias - well, if Sertorius, his rival, is buried in the island of iron, then he [is?] even buried in Rennes, basing the dialogue between the two zero meridians. Defeated by a naulogue6 -
the great Pompey was in Asia Minor and was assasinated at milet. Milesian philosophers embalmed his body [which] becomes an object of veneration until the Arabs seized the relic, the body was taken to Rennes during the invasion of Languedoc and the body was given an inviolable burial of marble and lead by Roc Negro. The funeral plaque still exists, you can see it at the museum of Perpignan - C. Pompey Quartus DM SVO.7
Here Critias is indeed referring not to Pompey, but to one of his sons, Sextus Pompeius, who was defeated in a naval battle off of the Naulochus cape. He was also caught in Miletus in 35 BC and executed without trial. It is not known what became of his body. Clearly in Circuit it is recounted that his body was 'embalmed and taken to Rennes'. Why did it become an object of veneration?
Circuit continues:
Charlot - dm
Critias - 'diis manibus' - the writing of Nostradamus DM.8
.... It is, in a circle of standing stones9...... embrace the great monarch with the great Roman
under the medusine 'ensigne'10 . It IS the devil sitting on a throne of stone11 and the very spot for centuries .... with the motto 'les treize ors de l'arene' (i.e. the treasures of Rennes). Finally, it is hidden in the bergere alignment of the three rocks, a black rock, yellowish sharp rock and a white rock corresponding respectively to Melchoir, Balthazar and Gaspard. All, depending on the mood, gives a sobering thought....
And in fact in the diagram below, there is a 'bergere' indicated on this 'map' - it is on an alignment with the Marie de Negre tombstone in the cemetery at Rennes-le-Chateau! Is this even the 'bergere' of the Large Parchment and cipher? ('Bergere pas de tentation, que Poussin Teniers gardent la clef'...). A further diagram identifies the 'maison de berger' - so there is a shepherdesss and shepherd of importance for some reason!
On p82-83 of Circuit:
anne - quia pulvis are
charlot - and pulvem reverteris
Critias - ah, here is the nepenthes!
She starts to evoke King Dagobert II - which signifies that he was faking his genealogy. She also tells them about his sword, which at the king's death, in 679, passed through the
hands of his youngest daughter Rathilde who thirteen years later gave it to her
husband Chilperic II12 We found the sword in Paley13, the 17th January 1913 in a burial - the
handle topped with gold leaf, encrusted with coloured stones, with four Merovingian bees, twenty four rectangles of gold and twenty eight cells ..... and she goes in search of Temperantia14.....rock n roll, rocks and roulers, and then ........treasure in the
cellars of the king, the queen of the citadel".
There are several Cherisey/Plantard diagrams which include the Pompeius stone in the Priory propaganda. They are shown below:
Here we can see all the elements we have discussed above in this diagram, drawn by Cherisey in what looks like 1961. Cherisey calls the Pompeius stone of Rennes les Bains a piece of white marble that was discovered at the entrance of the 'necropolis of the Grand Roman, at Roc Negre', flying in the face of local antiquarian reports of the stone being found at the source of the baths at Rennes-les-Bains. He names this great 'Roman' as Pompeius Quartus. On the map, however, Cherisey also marks the tomb of the Grand Roman (sometimes interchangeable with the Grand Monarch term) which seems further away from where the white marble Pompeius stone was found. Below is a much clearer scan i managed to obtain.
What Cherisey seems to have been suggesting [in 1961] via this diagram is that the Pompeius stone was found or is linked to a line that is connected to 0 degrees Belier, the Ram [where the Ram represents Aries (♈) /ˈɛəriːz/ (meaning "ram") as the first astrological sign in the Zodiac, spanning the first 30 degrees of celestial longitude (0°≤ λ <30º). Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun transits this sign between March 21 and April 20 each year]. The lines passes through Blanchefort, Roc Negre and the Croix du Cercle - [in some places this Croix du Cercle has been observed to be the calvaire of Rennes-les-Bains datéd to 1885 [i.e. when Sauniere first arrived at Rennes-le-Chateau]]. Whether due to my misunderstanding or not, the entrance to the 'necropolis' of the Grand Roman then appears to lie on the A3 - 647 [?] parcel of land around Roc Negre - the entrance/opening is indicated by the Pompeius stone but, from this map, the necropolis certainly seems to extend back into Cardou itself! Trying to read the text, Cherisey writes that the Pompeius stone is a marker for the entrance [into Cardou] of the necropolis of the Grand Roman! The Pompeius stone itself marks the entrance of the necropolis of the Grand Roman Lucius Cenar [?] Pompeius Quartus.
Cherisey also includes a line from a quote from Boudet about Bazel which i have highlighted here;
"At the top of Bazel, we see very strange standing stones, which help to form the circle of
the Cromleck on the eastern side. It is almost impossible to describe in detail these large stones as they are in considerable numbers, and their sum can easily be extended to three or four hundred arranged in order on the crest or lying confusedly on the slope facing south. One of these stones measuring more than eight feet long, two wide and as high: this mass of about thirty-two cubic meters was raised, tilted in a desired direction and secured to one end so that its enormous weight does not point on the steep slope of the mountain. One must see with his own eyes, this gigantic work, which causes amazement - no description can give an idea of what prodigious work it is".
Also on the map Cherisey draws attention to the word borne and indicates page 232 of Boudet's book, La Vrai Langue Celtique. The French word borne means: boundary stone; milestone. On page 232 Boudet is indeed talking about a boundary stone;
"The locals are of the persuasion, very wrong indeed, that the Greek cross carved on the rocks represent points of demarcation/boundaries. The real stone marker, indicating the separation of land of Coustaussa and Rennes-les-Bains, is stuck in the ground twenty feet away, on the north-west side. This boundary stone is very curious, it focuses on the side facing Coustaussa, shield/badge (?), probably the lord of the village, and on the opposite side, another shield/badge, the Lord of Rennes, showing very large differences with the first....".
The two illustrations below try to show the map of Cherisey against the 'map actually on the ground'.
"At the top of Bazel, we see very strange standing stones, which help to form the circle of
the Cromleck on the eastern side. It is almost impossible to describe in detail these large stones as they are in considerable numbers, and their sum can easily be extended to three or four hundred arranged in order on the crest or lying confusedly on the slope facing south. One of these stones measuring more than eight feet long, two wide and as high: this mass of about thirty-two cubic meters was raised, tilted in a desired direction and secured to one end so that its enormous weight does not point on the steep slope of the mountain. One must see with his own eyes, this gigantic work, which causes amazement - no description can give an idea of what prodigious work it is".
Also on the map Cherisey draws attention to the word borne and indicates page 232 of Boudet's book, La Vrai Langue Celtique. The French word borne means: boundary stone; milestone. On page 232 Boudet is indeed talking about a boundary stone;
"The locals are of the persuasion, very wrong indeed, that the Greek cross carved on the rocks represent points of demarcation/boundaries. The real stone marker, indicating the separation of land of Coustaussa and Rennes-les-Bains, is stuck in the ground twenty feet away, on the north-west side. This boundary stone is very curious, it focuses on the side facing Coustaussa, shield/badge (?), probably the lord of the village, and on the opposite side, another shield/badge, the Lord of Rennes, showing very large differences with the first....".
The two illustrations below try to show the map of Cherisey against the 'map actually on the ground'.
The two illustrations below are also related to each other - indicating once again a 'necropole' of a Roman.
In the above diagram the 'tumulus of stones' has become the presumed 'romaine necropolis'.
This is part of on-going research and further research will be reported on when updates are available.
This is part of on-going research and further research will be reported on when updates are available.
Notes:
1. Read's like a letter sent to Sagarzazu. A section of it is published here: http://priory-of-sion.com/pos/coumesourde.html. Read about its context here: http://www.rhedesium.com/paul-sennier-and-the-treasure-of-the-aniorts.html. There is also a picture of a section of this letter available, showing some interesting highlights by Plantard: http://www.rhedesium.com/1/post/2013/01/arare-and-interesting-letter-of-pierre-plantard.html .
2. Cherisey is suggesting here that Sauniere found a 'treasure' using Boudet's published book, La Vrai Langue Celtique et de Cromleck de Rennes-les-Bains. This book was first published in 1886. Sauniere became priest of Rennes-le-Chateau in 1885.
3. Quite clearly this is the Cromleck at Rennes-les-Bains.
4. This refers to Beaucean - http://www.rhedesium.com/in-the-country-of-the-white-queen.html.
5. See here for some background information: http://www.rhedesium.com/the-delmas-manuscript-and-the-tomb-of-a-roman.html.
6. The naval Battle of Naulochus was fought on 3 September 36 BC between the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, Sicily. The victory of Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, marked the end of the Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
7. So the mysterious Roman would appear to be Sextus Pompeius. But what was really so grand about him?
8. In Beaucean's 'The Country of the White Queen' the writings of Nostradamus and DM are mentiond:
1. Read's like a letter sent to Sagarzazu. A section of it is published here: http://priory-of-sion.com/pos/coumesourde.html. Read about its context here: http://www.rhedesium.com/paul-sennier-and-the-treasure-of-the-aniorts.html. There is also a picture of a section of this letter available, showing some interesting highlights by Plantard: http://www.rhedesium.com/1/post/2013/01/arare-and-interesting-letter-of-pierre-plantard.html .
2. Cherisey is suggesting here that Sauniere found a 'treasure' using Boudet's published book, La Vrai Langue Celtique et de Cromleck de Rennes-les-Bains. This book was first published in 1886. Sauniere became priest of Rennes-le-Chateau in 1885.
3. Quite clearly this is the Cromleck at Rennes-les-Bains.
4. This refers to Beaucean - http://www.rhedesium.com/in-the-country-of-the-white-queen.html.
5. See here for some background information: http://www.rhedesium.com/the-delmas-manuscript-and-the-tomb-of-a-roman.html.
6. The naval Battle of Naulochus was fought on 3 September 36 BC between the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus, Sicily. The victory of Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, marked the end of the Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
7. So the mysterious Roman would appear to be Sextus Pompeius. But what was really so grand about him?
8. In Beaucean's 'The Country of the White Queen' the writings of Nostradamus and DM are mentiond:
Here you can read Nigel Offord's remarkable interpretation of the tomb of the Grand Roman of Nostradamus: http://nostradamundus.wordpress.com/articles-general/marble-tombs-and-treasure/
9. Presumably Boudet's Cromleck.
10. The Great Roman and Medusine are further references to Nostradamus:
C9:Q84
Roy exposé parfera l'hecatombe,
Apres auoir trouué son origine:
Torrent ouurir de marbre & plomb la tombe,
D'vn grand Romain d'enseigne Medusine.
The King exposed will complete the slaughter,
After having discovered his origin:
Torrent to open the tomb of marble and lead,
Of a great Roman with "Medusine" device.
11. The Devils Armchair?
12. "Chilperic II, alias, Daniel, the youngest son of Childeric II, was king of Neustria from 715 and sole king of the Franks from 718 until his death. He was the last Merovingian dynast to exercise any authority on his own. As an infant, he was spirited to a monastery to protect his life from the internecine feuding of his family. There, he was raised as Daniel until the death of Dagobert III in 715, when he was taken from the monastery — at the age of forty-three — and raised on the shield of the Neustrian warriors as king, as was the custom. He took the royal name of Chilperic, though due to his monastic upbringing, he was a very different man from Chilperic I. First, it appears he was supposed to be but a tool in the hands of Ragenfrid, the mayor of the palace of Neustria, acclaimed in 714 in opposition to Theudoald, Pepin of Heristal's designated heir. Chilperic, however, was his own man: both a fighter and a leader, always at the forefront in battle at the head of his troops. In 716, he and Ragenfrid together led an army into Austrasia, then being warred over by Plectrude, on behalf of her grandson Theudoald, and Charles Martel, the bastard son of Pepin of Heristal. The Neustrians allied with another invading force under Radbod, King of the Frisians and met Charles in battle near Cologne, then held by Plectrude. Chilperic was victorious and Charles fled to the mountains of the Eifel. The king and his mayor then turned to besiege their other rival in the city. Plectrude acknowledged Chilperic as king, gave over the Austrasian treasury, and abandoned her son's claim to the mayoralty.
At this juncture, events took a turn against Chilperic. As he and Ragenfrid were leading their triumphant soldiers back to Neustria, Charles fell on them near Malmedy and in the Battle of Amblève, Charles routed them and they fled. Thereafter, Charles Martel remained virtually undefeated and Chilperic's strong will was subdued in a series of campaigns waged in Neustrian territory.
In 717, Charles returned to Neustria with an army and confirmed his supremacy with a victory at Vincy, near Cambrai. He chased the fleeing king and mayor to Paris before turning back to deal with Plectrude and Cologne. On succeeding there, he proclaimed one Clotaire IV king of Austrasia in opposition to Chilperic. In 718, Chilperic, in response, allied with Odo the Great, the duke of Aquitaine who had made himself independent during the contests in 715, but he was again defeated by Charles, at Soissons. The king fled with his ducal ally to the land south of the Loire and Ragenfrid fled to Angers. Soon Clotaire IV died and Odo gave up on Chilperic and, in exchange for recognising his kingship over all the Franks, the king surrendered his kingdom to the mayoralty of Charles over all the kingdoms (718). In 719, he was officially raised on the shield as king of all the Franks, but he survived but a year and his successors were mere rois fainéants. He died in Attigny and was buried in Noyon.
Chilperics father was Childeric II. Childeric married his cousin Bilichild. Bilichild was a daughter of King Sigebert III and Queen Chimnechild of Burgundy and granddaughter of King Dagobert I and his concubine Ragnétrude. Her siblings were Dagobert II and Childebert the Adopted." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childeric_II).
13. There is a Merovingian cemetery at Paley, with monolithic sarcophagi as one of the many graves of this type found in the region. Around 1913, a farmer of the village, digging a trench on the south side of the valley of Lunain discovered the Merovingian sarcophagi. He hastens to break open the covers hoping to find a treasure. He found francisques, spearheads, belt buckles in bronze, brooches, necklaces and medals, which are now preserved in the Museum of Prehistory of Nemours. Paleium is the Latin for "post" or "closing." Located at the crossroads of two Roman roads, one leading to Lutetia, Paley seems to have been the site of an ancient sanctuary dedicated to Mercury. Four excavations have uncovered Gallo-Roman remains on the site of the Cave in FÉES (fairies). Consists of a large main building, a gallery with a facade column and two pavilions at the ends, it has a steam heating system, common in the Roman world, with a praefurnium or room heating. The steam is produced in one of the circulating coins, the floor paved with mosaic, based on small piles of bricks.
14. Temperantia - Temperantia is an ancient Roman goddess who embodies the concept of temperance and moderation. Moreover, she is the female manifestation of one among four of the cardinal virtues established by none other than Plato: Temperance. The Romans and the early Christian Church called it temperantia, temperance, the restraining of emotional excess.
10. The Great Roman and Medusine are further references to Nostradamus:
C9:Q84
Roy exposé parfera l'hecatombe,
Apres auoir trouué son origine:
Torrent ouurir de marbre & plomb la tombe,
D'vn grand Romain d'enseigne Medusine.
The King exposed will complete the slaughter,
After having discovered his origin:
Torrent to open the tomb of marble and lead,
Of a great Roman with "Medusine" device.
11. The Devils Armchair?
12. "Chilperic II, alias, Daniel, the youngest son of Childeric II, was king of Neustria from 715 and sole king of the Franks from 718 until his death. He was the last Merovingian dynast to exercise any authority on his own. As an infant, he was spirited to a monastery to protect his life from the internecine feuding of his family. There, he was raised as Daniel until the death of Dagobert III in 715, when he was taken from the monastery — at the age of forty-three — and raised on the shield of the Neustrian warriors as king, as was the custom. He took the royal name of Chilperic, though due to his monastic upbringing, he was a very different man from Chilperic I. First, it appears he was supposed to be but a tool in the hands of Ragenfrid, the mayor of the palace of Neustria, acclaimed in 714 in opposition to Theudoald, Pepin of Heristal's designated heir. Chilperic, however, was his own man: both a fighter and a leader, always at the forefront in battle at the head of his troops. In 716, he and Ragenfrid together led an army into Austrasia, then being warred over by Plectrude, on behalf of her grandson Theudoald, and Charles Martel, the bastard son of Pepin of Heristal. The Neustrians allied with another invading force under Radbod, King of the Frisians and met Charles in battle near Cologne, then held by Plectrude. Chilperic was victorious and Charles fled to the mountains of the Eifel. The king and his mayor then turned to besiege their other rival in the city. Plectrude acknowledged Chilperic as king, gave over the Austrasian treasury, and abandoned her son's claim to the mayoralty.
At this juncture, events took a turn against Chilperic. As he and Ragenfrid were leading their triumphant soldiers back to Neustria, Charles fell on them near Malmedy and in the Battle of Amblève, Charles routed them and they fled. Thereafter, Charles Martel remained virtually undefeated and Chilperic's strong will was subdued in a series of campaigns waged in Neustrian territory.
In 717, Charles returned to Neustria with an army and confirmed his supremacy with a victory at Vincy, near Cambrai. He chased the fleeing king and mayor to Paris before turning back to deal with Plectrude and Cologne. On succeeding there, he proclaimed one Clotaire IV king of Austrasia in opposition to Chilperic. In 718, Chilperic, in response, allied with Odo the Great, the duke of Aquitaine who had made himself independent during the contests in 715, but he was again defeated by Charles, at Soissons. The king fled with his ducal ally to the land south of the Loire and Ragenfrid fled to Angers. Soon Clotaire IV died and Odo gave up on Chilperic and, in exchange for recognising his kingship over all the Franks, the king surrendered his kingdom to the mayoralty of Charles over all the kingdoms (718). In 719, he was officially raised on the shield as king of all the Franks, but he survived but a year and his successors were mere rois fainéants. He died in Attigny and was buried in Noyon.
Chilperics father was Childeric II. Childeric married his cousin Bilichild. Bilichild was a daughter of King Sigebert III and Queen Chimnechild of Burgundy and granddaughter of King Dagobert I and his concubine Ragnétrude. Her siblings were Dagobert II and Childebert the Adopted." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childeric_II).
13. There is a Merovingian cemetery at Paley, with monolithic sarcophagi as one of the many graves of this type found in the region. Around 1913, a farmer of the village, digging a trench on the south side of the valley of Lunain discovered the Merovingian sarcophagi. He hastens to break open the covers hoping to find a treasure. He found francisques, spearheads, belt buckles in bronze, brooches, necklaces and medals, which are now preserved in the Museum of Prehistory of Nemours. Paleium is the Latin for "post" or "closing." Located at the crossroads of two Roman roads, one leading to Lutetia, Paley seems to have been the site of an ancient sanctuary dedicated to Mercury. Four excavations have uncovered Gallo-Roman remains on the site of the Cave in FÉES (fairies). Consists of a large main building, a gallery with a facade column and two pavilions at the ends, it has a steam heating system, common in the Roman world, with a praefurnium or room heating. The steam is produced in one of the circulating coins, the floor paved with mosaic, based on small piles of bricks.
14. Temperantia - Temperantia is an ancient Roman goddess who embodies the concept of temperance and moderation. Moreover, she is the female manifestation of one among four of the cardinal virtues established by none other than Plato: Temperance. The Romans and the early Christian Church called it temperantia, temperance, the restraining of emotional excess.
SAH, posted 22/11/12