posted on Dec, 15 2018 @ 04:42 PM
The controversy goes back further when you consider the desposyni, or the blood relatives of Jesus. They held power in the early church
Martin, Malachi. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church. New York: Bantam, 1983. 30-31
"That most hallowed name, desposyni, had been respected by all believers in the first century and a half of Christian history. The word literally
meant, in Greek, "belonging to the Lord." It was reserved uniquely for Jesus' blood relatives. Every part of the ancient Jewish Christian church had
always been governed by a desposynos, and each of them carried one of the names traditional in Jesus' family---Zachary, Joseph, John, James, Joses,
Simeon, Matthias, and so on. But no one was ever called Jesus. Neither Silvester nor any of the thirty-two popes before him, nor those succeeding him,
ever emphasized that there were at least three well-known and authentic lines of legitimate blood descent from Jesus' own family. One from Joachim and
Anna, Jesus' maternal grandparents. One from Elizabeth, first cousin of Jesus' mother, Mary, and Elizabeth's husband, Zachary. And one from Cleophas
and his wife, who also was a first cousin of Mary.
There were, of course, numerous blood descendants of Joseph, Mary's husband, but only those persons in bloodline with Jesus through his mother
qualified as desposyni."
The desposyni resettled in France and became the Merovingian Priest Kings, by divine right leading to the Plantegenet Kings of England.
Languedoc was the main Merovingian stronghold.
Priori de Sion was proven to be a hoax and Dan Brown's novel was fiction.
However; I read one historians view that the Merovingians were sorcerers and that they represented a real challenge to the Catholics in that the
populace preferred the magicians over the clergy. May have been the book, "Magic in the Middle Ages",