Robin Crookshank Hilton – Peddling Plantard Today - A character assassination by Smith with no substance whatsoever. Not worth reading as it contains no facts and no proofs just a tirade of opinions and obfuscations.

However you can read her article here

Entitled

Stenay and the Myth

Rhymes with Smith

 
Michael Baigent Profile and The Jesus Papers Reviewed - More pedantic drivel from Smith. Smith says he reviews this book and hardly mentions it at all.

This author is still reading this book and will give a comment later.

Couple of interesting statements though.

1. 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" (in an article entitled Some Archives Of The ‘Priory Of Sion’ Discovered In Barcelona… by "Ursanne").

   We are now able to officially state So presumably at some stage before they weren't able to officially state.

   This I presume comes from the interview by Gino Sandri (Link here) 'methinks they protest too much' here.

   The people in question are Andre Chénier and the Abbé Delille who have done far more research than the likes of Smith could only dream about it.

   "realm of fantasy" Thanks for the opinion we'll let you know.

    

2. Tony Robinson:
   Do we have any evidence that there was a child?

   Michael Baigent:
   There's none whatsoever – that’s purely hypothesis on our part – but I think it's a plausible hypothesis - that the Holy Grail is the bloodline of David – and if Jesus and Mary Magdalene had been married and she was pregnant with this child – "yes, she would have carried the Grail to France" – and I think this is the way that we need to look at this material – Is it true? I don't know – Is it plausible? Yes.

   Tony Robinson:
   So the inspiration for 'The Da Vinci Code' and a whole Canon of secret Grail Hunts is no more than a Big Guess...

   Ah the Channel 4 programme 'The real Da Vinci Code', we rip that programme apart here.

   So do you have any independent evidence that there was ever a Jesus? Never mind a child of Jesus?

   No Flavius Josephus mentions CHRIST  in “Jewish Antiquities”, Book 18, Chapter 3, Paragraph 3 and Christ means anointed one and there were thousands of these in the first century CE. He mentions Judas though, now that's topical.

    I've had some who say that their version of Josephus says Jesus so my question to those people who have their own SPECIAL copy is:

   As there are TWO Jesus' mentioned in the New Testament Colossians 4:11, to which one is Josephus referring?

   What an absolute plonker you are Robinson. Live-glass-stones-people-houses-throw-shouldn't. If you ask for evidence of a child don't assume the moral high ground until you've first established independent proof of the existence of Jesus.

Two Faked Photographs - Smith seems to be blaming Lincoln here. There's no evidence Lincoln did it. He's just been given the wrong photograph nothing sinister here. As for the Emma Calve stone, I think Lincoln has regarded this a little suspect from day one.
Sion Revelation - More Fantasies From Picknett and Prince -

"through their promotion of distorted allegations based upon proven discredited material"

Which proven discredited material would that be? Lets debate it. Oh I forgot you don't do debates.

"During the late 1980s Geoffrey Basil Smith informed me that he destroyed his Priory of Sion archive when I enquired about the correspondence he received from Philippe de Chérisey – Picknett and Prince in turn claim that Geoffrey Basil Smith showed this material to them in 1999 and yet Geoffrey Basil Smith cannot prove their allegations to be correct because he recently informed me that these letters "mysteriously vanished". This is fact."

So what was in this correspondence, are you going to tell us Smith? Or does it damage your case?

Pierre Plantard the Traditionalist Roman Catholic -

"The insertion of the name of Jean Cocteau into the fictional Grand Masters List of the fictional Priory of Sion was Philippe de Chèrisey's suggestion, on account of his interest in surrealism and nothing else."

Proof Please. Stop making the story up and defend yourself with proof. Your bluff has been called.

Wikipedia - Priory of Sion - Haven't read 'The Messianic Legacy' have you Smith?

Plantard stated in the meeting in Chaumiel mother's Art galley with Lincoln and the BBC that Philippe de Chèrisey  had made a copy. But it only deals with one parchment (the Dagobert one) and there were two remember. The bad news for you Smith is that Philippe de Chèrisey could not possibly have written the second (Poussin) parchment and I have proven it here. Chaumiel is lying. Lincoln stated in 'The key to the Sacred Pattern' that de Cherisey had been making notes on the solution and promised to show Henry Lincoln, but he died before he had seen them. Is this what Chaumiel has?

Priory of Sion Essential Books -

"The version of the "Priory of Sion" involving Godfrey de Bouillon, the Knights Templars and the Merovingians was a figment of Pierre Plantard’s imagination dating from the early 1960s when he first met Gérard de Sède and began collaborating with him on the Gisors story, that was first begun by Roger Lhomoy (Lhomoy was Gérard de Sède’s pig-farmer at the time). This romantic fabrication was concocted by Plantard at that time in order to make money and nothing else – no "hidden esoteric secrets" were involved. The Rennes-le-Château "connection" was introduced sometime later."

So what was that foremost expert on the Crusades Rene Grousset referring to in 1934 when he spoke about a "Royal Tradition" that ensured Baudouin I younger brother of Godfroi de Bouillon would become King of Jerusalem and would be equal to the Kings of Europe? This has nothing to do with the Priory of Sion documents, this is from a very respected historian.

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail Illustrated Edition

"As far as the pool is concerned I can only tell you not to pay too much attention to Henry’s gobbledegook! – for it seems to me that’s what all that business about ‘underlying geometry’ is! In fact, when Henry used all his maps there was nothing at the absolute centre of the Pentagram he drew on the map. The pool was hundreds of yards (if I remember correctly) away from the centre which fell on a scree slope. The pool itself is in a farmer’s field near a secondary road and the old man in a nearby house told us it was a pool used by the local women to wash their clothes before piped water. The trees provided a screen to stop the water evaporating in the hot summer sun."

Well as Mandy Rice Davis ( a Prostitute in the Profumo affair) once said " They would say that wouldn't they". You telling me that they made it in the middle of the field so they could do their washing? With no path to it? Surrounded it by trees so it wouldn't evaporate? And they constructed it specifically for that purpose? So if it evaporates then it's no good for drinking after they've washed in it as it clearly isn't fed from a source. So what did they use for drinking water?

Oh and erm what about the rest of the book?

Children of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail  -

I've got your number now. By the way Barbara Thiering has used nothing from the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. She's a Doctor of Theology of more than thirty years experience. A little difficult to argue against N'est-ce Pas?

Da Vinci Code Documentaries

Timewatch: The History of a Mystery
BBC 2 (InVision Productions), 17 September 1996
Written and Directed by William Cran
Character assassination of Paul Schellenberger and Richard Andrews authors of  'The Tomb of God'.  Interview hijack and ambush.


In Search of History: The Holy Grail
The History Channel (FilmRoos, Inc; A & E Television Networks), December 1997
Executive Producer Bram Roos
Produced by Truusje Rushner



In Search of The Holy Grail
The Learning Channel/Discovery Communications/New York Times (Bluebrook Films), 18 February 2003
Produced and Directed by Bruce Burgess



Legend Hunters: The Holy Grail - the real story (Pilot Episode)
Discovery: Travel Channel US (Partners In Motion), 11 April 2003
Producer: Paul Compton
Executive Producer: Ron Goetz


Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci
ABC News Productions, 3 November 2003
Directed by Rudy Bednar, Presented and Written by Elizabeth Vargas


Investigating History: The Holy Grail
The History Channel (Kurtis Productions Ltd), 26 April 2004
Produced by Sharon Barrett, Presented by Bill Kurtis

Featured Michael Baigent; Professor Malcolm Barber; Dr Robert Eisenman; Dr Barbara Frale; uncredited contribution from an individual who claimed that Flying Saucers visited the village of Rennes-le-Château.
Jean Luc Chaumeil believes Aliens are running this planet. He wrote a book about them.

Behind The Mysteries: Unlocking Da Vinci's Code - The Full Story
(updated version of the ABC documentary above)
The National Geographic Channel (ABC News Productions), 19 December 2004
Produced by Jean Marie Condon and Yael Lavie, Presented and Written by Elizabeth Vargas

Beyond The Da Vinci Code
The History Channel (Weller/Grossman Productions in association with Paulist Productions), 16 January 2005
Directed by Will Ehbrecht


The Real Da Vinci Code
Channel Four Television (Wildfire Television), 3 February 2005
Produced by Simon Raikes, Presented by Tony Robinson
Although the theme of this partially concerned the feminine looking figure in Da Vinci's Last Supper (with no chalice) they skilfully side stepped the fact that there's a similar set of four stained glass windows in Hodnet Church near to Shugborough Hall featuring a female looking John holding a chalice. Even though the TV team had actually visited there. Clearly they had an agenda to fulfil.

Conspiracies On Trial: The Da Vinci Code
The Discovery Channel (Outline Productions), 10 April 2005
Directed by Harry Beney

Secrets To The Code
Dateline: NBC (NBC Universal, Inc), 13 April 2005
Broadcast Producer Elizabeth Cole, Presented by Stone Phillips

The Grail Trail: In Pursuit of The Da Vinci Code
ITV (Granada), 26 September 2005
Produced and Directed by Matt Cain
Executive Producer: Gillian Greenwood
Narrated by Caroline Quentin

Da Vinci Declassified
The Learning Channel (Beantown Productions, Discovery Communications, Inc), 3 November 2005
Executive Producers: David Carr; David Comtois
Producer, Frankie Glass

Revealed... The Da Vinci Code Myth
Channel Five (Weller/Grossman Productions; Love Productions), 29 November 2005
Director/Senior Editor Will Ehbrecht
Narrated by Mark Halliley


Legend Detectives: The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château
Discovery Channel (IPM TV Ltd), 9 December 2005
Produced and Directed by Michael Hutchinson

Opus Dei & The Da Vinci Code
Channel Four Television (CTVC), 12 December 2005
Produced and Directed by Jeremy Jeffs
Written and Presented by Mark Dowd

Terra X: Geheimakte Sakrileg – Der Mythos von Rennes-le-Château
ZDF (ifage-Filmproduktion GmbH), 15 January 2006
Directed by Georg Graffe

The Da Vinci Code – Bloodlines ("Digging for the Truth" series)
The History Channel (JWM Productions, LLC), 27 March 2006
Hosted by Josh Bernstein
Directed and Written by Brian Leckey

Featured Alice Jouve, Tuvia Fogel, Timothy Wallace-Murphy, Professor Jean-Jacques Cassiman, Daniel Perrier, Kent Dobson, Archbishop Malki Murad

* This documentary did a DNA testing on the remains of a 1,400 year-old Merovingian Queen (Aregund, the wife of Clothar I), which failed to produce any near-Eastern origin.

That's probably because it was CLOTHAR 1 (LOTHAR 1) who was the son of Clovis 1 who was from the Meroveus bloodline (Grandson) and Clothilde of Burgundy who wasn't. Aregund? She just married into the family and wasn't bloodline at all.

You checked the wrong one [FX sound of donkey braying.] One set of donkey ears coming right up..

Da Vinci's Code ("Is It Real?" series)
National Geographic Television & Film, 24 April 2006
Produced by Amy Doyle

The Secret of the Priory of Sion
CBS News '60 Minutes' (CBS Worldwide Inc.), 30 April 2006
Presented by CBS Correspondent Ed Bradley
Produced By Jeanne Langley

The Da Vinci Code – The Greatest Story Ever Sold (‘Time Shift’ series)
BBC Four (BBC Bristol), 1 May 2006
Directed by Matthew Pelly; Producer Georgina Harvey
Narrated by Michael Pennington

* Quoting David Aaronovitch: "I am older than the Priory of Sion", and "One of the things I think is interesting about this, is the way in which the authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail have never, as far as I know, turned round to the rest of the world, and said, ‘It was a load of rubbish. [That's probably because it isn't] Terribly sorry and all that. We are not going to give the money back cos we’ve spent it all and we did do quite a lot of work and we were hoaxed too, but actually, it’s all complete and utter tosh’."

Thanks for the opinion Dave we'll let you know

* Quoting Jonathan Riley-Smith: "What Holy Blood, Holy Grail, did, was to dismiss reputable evidence which didn’t go with its theories.  Accept disreputable evidence and fill in the gaps where there was no evidence at all."
[For instance? Wanna debate it? Oh I forgot you people don't do debates] WE DO SEE HERE ARE YOU UP FOR IT?

Revealed... The Man Behind The Da Vinci Code
Channel Five Television (Diverse Productions Ltd), 10 May 2006
Produced and Directed by Ian Bremner
Narrated by John Shrapnel

Featured Henry Lincoln, Professor Brian Ford, Sharan Newman, Dr Helen Nicholson, John Edwin Wood, Erling Haagensen, Dr Jim Bennett, Ed Danson, Peter Barber (with archive footage of Professor Christopher Cornford)

* Documentary primarily made for escapist entertainment rather than for historical elucidation – shameless vehicle for books like The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail and The Templars' Secret Island.....


Angels & Demons – The True Story
Channel Five Television (Hidden Treasures Production; Love Productions), 10 May 2006
Produced and Directed by Stephen Franklin
Narrated by Paul McGann

Featured Dr Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Mark Irving, Simon Cox, Dan Burstein, George Lechner, Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lindsay Johns, James Wasserman, Dr Michael Barkun, Peter Sandford, Dr Amy Bernstein, Greg Tobin, Dr Antonio Sennis


Richard Hammond and The Holy Grail
BBC One, 21 May 2006
Produced and Directed by James Hayes