"Holy Blood Holy Grail" is full of provably incorrect statements. I bought a whole series of those books, and I found incorrect statements in them all. So they are all in the fiction part of my library.
The basic theory of the book is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and has living descendants. Supposedly the Merovingian dynasty in France is part of that. There was an old guy in France, Pierre Plantard, who was supposed to be next in line to rule Europe. But in real life, he was a fraud, and the documents found in the book's research were fake. There are a lot of family tree charts in the book, and I've found errors in them.
Christian Settipani is an expert on the subject, but his books are all in French. The book I saw in the DAR Library in DC was full of charts that I photocopied. I can't remember the title of that particular book, but you can google his name and get an idea of what he's done. Some of the charts have best guesses, but the text explains his reasoning. I suppose you could wade through the books using Google Translate to translate a paragraph at a time.
Another good author is David Hughes. A lot of his older material is scattered around the internet, but he does have a two-volume work currently available for sale called "Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Britain." The second volume is nothing but charts that go way back, even into mythological eras. But he is very accurate in his information. I have that work, and I've also collected every article he posted on the internet and bound them into a books.
Here's a website with a list of David Hughes articles.
Some of these files are no longer on the internet, but may be in Archive's collection. As noted at the top of the page, you may have to change some of the URLs to make them work. All of this is hundreds of pages and will keep you occupied for a long time.
It's not in the fiction section of my library, so I haven't read "The Hiram Key." I have read about it, and some of the assumed facts used as a basis for the authors' theories are untrue. The book seems to be a mix of truth and fiction mixed together to conclude an overall falsity. I have a shelf full of books that do the same thing in various ways. Some of them are very entertaining, which is why movies were made of some of them.
One premise of the book, so I've read, is that the Catholic church usurped control from the original church of Jerusalem. I believe that part is true. There are many things taken as gospel by Catholics and Protestants that are not true, merely stated as fact by one or the other pope. The pope decrees something contrary to what the Bible clearly states, and everyone believes it. The pope states, "We won't observe the Commandment about honoring the Sabbath day," so most Christians today actively violate that Commandment every week. There's a lot more.
Short answer: No, I haven't read it, but if I see it for sale cheap, I might pick up a copy.
"Holy Blood Holy Grail" is full of provably incorrect statements. I bought a whole series of those books, and I found incorrect statements in them all. So they are all in the fiction part of my library.
Can you enlighten me, I just started reading it
The basic theory of the book is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and has living descendants. Supposedly the Merovingian dynasty in France is part of that. There was an old guy in France, Pierre Plantard, who was supposed to be next in line to rule Europe. But in real life, he was a fraud, and the documents found in the book's research were fake. There are a lot of family tree charts in the book, and I've found errors in them.
What counter literature did you use if you remember and do you have a recommendation for bloodline charts or medieval history.
Christian Settipani is an expert on the subject, but his books are all in French. The book I saw in the DAR Library in DC was full of charts that I photocopied. I can't remember the title of that particular book, but you can google his name and get an idea of what he's done. Some of the charts have best guesses, but the text explains his reasoning. I suppose you could wade through the books using Google Translate to translate a paragraph at a time.
Another good author is David Hughes. A lot of his older material is scattered around the internet, but he does have a two-volume work currently available for sale called "Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Britain." The second volume is nothing but charts that go way back, even into mythological eras. But he is very accurate in his information. I have that work, and I've also collected every article he posted on the internet and bound them into a books.
Here's a website with a list of David Hughes articles.
https://www.angelfire.com/ego/et_deo/
Some of these files are no longer on the internet, but may be in Archive's collection. As noted at the top of the page, you may have to change some of the URLs to make them work. All of this is hundreds of pages and will keep you occupied for a long time.
Have fun.
Ever read The Hyrum Key?
It's not in the fiction section of my library, so I haven't read "The Hiram Key." I have read about it, and some of the assumed facts used as a basis for the authors' theories are untrue. The book seems to be a mix of truth and fiction mixed together to conclude an overall falsity. I have a shelf full of books that do the same thing in various ways. Some of them are very entertaining, which is why movies were made of some of them.
One premise of the book, so I've read, is that the Catholic church usurped control from the original church of Jerusalem. I believe that part is true. There are many things taken as gospel by Catholics and Protestants that are not true, merely stated as fact by one or the other pope. The pope decrees something contrary to what the Bible clearly states, and everyone believes it. The pope states, "We won't observe the Commandment about honoring the Sabbath day," so most Christians today actively violate that Commandment every week. There's a lot more.
Short answer: No, I haven't read it, but if I see it for sale cheap, I might pick up a copy.