Anonymous ID: a29178 June 19, 2018, 12:11 p.m. No.1816207   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6227

The Prieuré de Sion (French: IPA/API:[pʁijœʁe də sjɔ]), translated as Priory of Sion, is a fringe fraternal organisation, founded and dissolved in France in 1956 by Pierre Plantard as part of a hoax. In the 1960s, Plantard created a fictitious history for that organization, describing it as a secret society founded by Godfrey of Bouillon on Mount Zion in the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099, conflating it with a genuine historical monastic order, the Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion. In Plantard's version, the Priory was devoted to installing a secret bloodline of the Merovingian dynasty on the thrones of France and the rest of Europe.[2] This myth was expanded upon and popularised by the 1982 pseudohistorical[3] book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail[1] and later presented in the preface of the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code.[4]