Its main claim is that he derived the basic plot for The Da Vinci Code from other sources, and only discovered Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the final stage of his writing the novel. And no reference that the Merovigians protected by the Priory of Sion and mentioned in the 1967 documents are the physical descendants of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene ever appeared in print before the 1982 book Holy Blood, Holy Grail.ĭan Brown’s witness statement, typically heavily edited by lawyers, is a fascinating autobiography of the author. The Priory of Sion itself was founded in 1956 by the key architect of the 1967 forgery, Pierre Plantard (1920-2000), but with different aims and by-laws. No reference to the Priory of Sion as an organization (led during the course of its existence by many famous people, including Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519) protecting the Merovingians and their legitimate claims to the throne of France against the Carolingians and further usurpers is recorded in history before the fabrication of the 1967 documents. With co-author Henry Lincoln, as told elsewhere in this Web site, Baigent and Leigh combined the documents about the Priory of Sion fabricated in 1967 in France with the theory, advanced in the French esoteric occult milieu in the 1970s, that Jesus had a sexual relation with one of his female disciples and was perhaps married.

Dan Brown is currently (March 2006) defending himself in a London Court Case against accusations of plagiarism by British authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, co-authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982).

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