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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