Bloodline of the Grail

I don't really know why I read this book. Perhaps I saw the tag line "The hidden lineage of Jesus revealed" and thought I'd better check whether it was me who was directly descended from Jesus.

Turns out Gardner hasn't come to the conclusion that I'm the messiah (or even a naughty boy for that matter) but I have to say that (SPOILER) when I read the foreword by "Prince Michael of Albany", I guessed (correctly as it turns out) who was Gardner's pick for Jesus' descendant.

In between the foreword and the conclusion, Gardner makes a lot of declarations but provides scant reputable evidence, although to be fair, I wasn't expecting much reputable evidence when I picked the book up.

Author does a very thorough job of compiling the results of his research from many historical sources, including statuary, tomb paintings, and historic places, to propose a theory that Jesus Christ was married and left descendants.

Basically a new version of Holy Blood, Holy Grail. To make it new, they talk more about the Dead Sea Scrolls and throw in some Celtic stuff, and lastly make a stupidly silly claim that some Belgian guy is the true King of Scotland. Then let's make up cool chivalric titles and give them to ourselves and friends. Yeah! Lastly, the footnotes and sources are great, but the sources aren't properly analyzed. Some are just bunk.

Yeah, whatever. I had the same problem with this book that I've had with others of this ilk. A lot of assumptions are made, from which MORE conclusions are drawn. A LOT of history just isn't accounted for. The idea behind the book is intriguing, but it really can't be proved.

A great tangle of information that not even the great architect of the universe can sort out. It seems that sir L. and the redoubtable Nick de Vere have parted ways. I love to read Nick de Vere's book if only for all the delightful names he has for those of us of the tinker nobility, et al. the rabble. the hoi-polloi, the mob, the great unwashed, those of us not of the elfin bludd. oh well.

Interesting theory, but will my research into the life of the genealogies hold up.

Validated many of the casual thoughts I'd had in my lifetime.