Table of contents
1/ Waitning in Vain
2/ Son of Jesus and tales of Mystery
3/ Modern Day Stenay
4/ Eat, drink and be happy
SourceAnd de Sede hinted, way back in La Race Fabuleuse, that the head of Satan on the coat of arms of Stenay is somehow crucial to the Priory of Sion mystery.
The central claim in L'Or de Rennes was that Saunière found parchments proving that the lineage of the "last" Merovingian king, Dagobert II, assassinated on 23 December 679, did not die with him as had previously been thought. His son was presumed to have escaped the massacre and took refuge at Rennes-le-Château, where he founded a line of descent before being buried in 758 in the church crypt. These genealogical documents implicated to an exceptional degree the Priory of Sion, a secret organisation working behind the scenes ever since the Carolingian and Capetian usurpations for the recognition of the legitimacy of the Merovingian line of descent to the throne of France. Pierre Plantard claimed to be descended from Dagobert II.
L'Or de Rennes was to have a lasting impact on British script-writer Henry Lincoln, who read the book while on holiday in the Cévennes in 1969, leading him to inspire three BBC Two Chronicle documentaries, as well as working some of its material into the 1982 bestseller Holy Blood, Holy Grail which itself was used as source material for the bestselling 2003 novel by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code.
Gérard de Sède returned to the subject matter of Bérenger Saunière during the late 1980s writing Rennes-le-Château: le dossier, les impostures, les phantasmes, les hypothèses, discounting the Plantard-related material that had appeared over the previous 20 years. He claimed Saunière obtained his wealth from the Habsburgs in return for parchments containing "politico-genealogical secrets" about the descent of Louis XVII.[10] He claimed the "Merovingian romance" was a parody where Dagobert II replaced Louis XVI, his son Sigebert IV replaced Louis XVII and Pierre Plantard replaced Charles-Guillaume Naundorff.[11]
He afterwards moved to Nicaragua, then to Belgium, before returning to France during the 1990s.
Gérard de Sède died in Désertines (Montluçon), in 2004. He was buried in Lieoux.
In a 2005 TV documentary, de Sede's son Arnaud stated categorically that his father and Plantard had made up the existence of the Priory of Sion — to quote Arnaud de Sède in the programme, "it is absolute piffle
- L'ABC de RLC – l'Encyclopédie de Rennes-le-Château, pages 208-209 (Marseille: Éditions Arqa, 2009). ISBN 2-7551-0031-1
- Jean-Luc Chaumeil, Rennes-le-Château – Gisors – Le Testament du Prieuré de Sion (Le Crépuscule d’une Ténebreuse Affaire), Editions Pégase, 2006. ISBN 2-9518752-8-2
- Pierre Jarnac, Histoire du trésor de Rennes-le-Château (Cabestany: Saleilles, 1985). Reprinted by Éditions Bélisane, 1998. ISBN 2-910730-19-0
- Pierre Jarnac, Les Archives de Rennes-le-Château, volume 2 (Éditions Bélisane, 1988). ISBN 2-902296-81-9
- John Saul & Janice A. Glaholm, Rennes-le-Château, A Bibliography (London: Mercurius Press,1985). ISBN 0-9510517-0-9
- Marcus Williamson (2004-06-24). "Gérard de Sède - Historian of the mystery of Rennes-le-Château" (obituary). The Independent (UK).
- Da Vinci Declassified, 2006 TLC video documentary
- "Priory of Sion", 60 Minutes, 30 April 2006, produced by Jeanne Langley, hosted by Ed Bradley
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