Antrustions

23/12/2024

We know that in 1663, the relics of Saint Dagobert were taken from the Church of St. Remigius in Stenay and handed over to the parish priest of Longwy, Jean Counan, who ran the parish from 1647 to 1679. There is still a small piece of bone from Dagobert II as a relic in Stenay, in the north of France.

Today, what is believed to be his skull remains, and it is held at a convent in Mons. Curiously, years later, a poem entitled "De Sancta Dagoberto martyre prose" appeared. Its message was that Dagobert had been martyred for some reason; the poem was found at the Abbey of Orval. The Abbey currently denies the existence of this poem.

20/12/2024

Dagobert married in 666 AD his first wife, Mathilde, a Celtic princess who was, like him, very wise and virtuous. Mathilde died in 670 AD, during the birth of their daughter. When his wife passed away, he returned to France and awaited the chance to reclaim his throne, which came in 674 AD. Saint Wilfred and Saint Amatus, Bishop of Sion, helped him in this endeavor.

He did not become the wished-for "arm of God '' for the Roman Catholic Church, however. He curbed the expansion of the Roman Church within his realm and thereby incurred ecclesiastical displeasure.

By the time he had ruled for three years, he had many powerful enemies.

Saint Wilfrid, Bishop of York, was a spiritual and temporal advisor to King Dagobert, and after the death of his first wife, Mathilde, he suggested to the King that he marry Gisèle of Razes, who was from a noble Visigoth family.

In 671 AD, he married Giselle de Razès, daughter of the Count of Razès and niece of King Wamba of the Visigoths. This united the empires of the Visigoths and the Merovingians. By this marriage into the royal line of the Visigoths, he acquired considerable territory in what is now the Languedoc.

He was married in the Magdalena church in the birthplace of the bride, Rhédae, later Rennes-le-Château. This valley was called the Kingdom of the Valley Noire d'Is. Rennes-le-Château, in Aude, is dedicated to Mary Magdalene, one of the primary incarnations of the Divine Mother of the Gnostics, and more specifically, the Isis archetype.

Their son's birth caused them a lot of joy, for they saw in this person an heir, insured for the succession of the state from which they gradually recovered. This prince was born in the castle of Isenbourg and was baptized there under the name of Sigisbert. Dagobert wanted to give him the name of Sigisbert, his father, just as this holy king had given him the name of his father, Dagobert.

“He rendered justice,” says Fredegaire, “to rich and poor alike, without any charges, and without any respect for the status of persons, taking little sleep and little food, caring only so to act that all should withdraw from his presence full of joy and admiration.”

19/12/2024

Numerous ancient Gnostic Christian brotherhoods, including those that predated the Templars and Cathars, attempted to enter the kingdom of the spirit or the light, and the path they took revealed the truth.

All of these men and women, all of these organizations, had similar goals, shared the same experiences, made the same discoveries, and had all faced defamation and persecution.

Previously, they were all connected to the same powerful spiritual energy that has no beginning or end.

They all drank from the same source.

This source is critical if we are to fully comprehend the Merovingians.

"What is brilliant is the truth."
Your thoughts.

The truth is not only enlightening but also radiant and captivating. Authenticity and honesty have a beauty and power that surpass superficial attractions. In a world where misinformation and deception are rampant, this reminds us to seek and cherish the brilliance of truth, which can liberate and empower us. It's a mantra that encourages us to embrace reality, even when it's challenging, and to celebrate the clarity and wisdom that come from embracing the truth.

In recent years, some experts claimed that we might see the Merovingians' initial steps in the style of the most ancient kingdoms, while others believed that we could detect vestiges of an original wisdom that they had acquired directly from heaven at the outset of their journey.

Nobody can doubt that the Merovingians had rich and diversified occult knowledge. The early stages of their history take place in Arcadia, which is mostly unknown to us.

The Frankish tribes can be traced back to their origins as Sicambrians, who were already aware of their Arcadian/Trojan heritage and possessed major creative and esoteric skills.

Our purpose in researching the Merovingians' ancient history is not only to retrace their history but also to examine and establish the value and breadth of those early periods of their history, which are the foundation for the Frankish Merovingians' complete development. A thorough investigation of the distinctions between tradition and progress in Frankish Merovingian studies, along with rigorous comparison, allows us to learn more about their personalities and ways of life.

The results are presented to the reader for his own decision.

18/12/2024

Dagobert II was killed (murdered) during a hunting trip close to his summer palace in Stenay on December 23, 679. The murderers then returned to Stenay, where they attempted to murder the rest of the family.

17/12/2024

As there can be no doubt that Saint Sigisbert and Queen Mathilde had a son, who was named Dagobert II, it is quite surprising to see that the historians of recent times knew of and even had enough care to write of the misfortune that happened to this prince. When he was young, he was exiled due to the perfidy of his father's mayor of the palace (Grimoald), who, by dismissing him in this manner, wished to give rise to Childebert, his own son, to ascend to the throne, so he neglected to mark his return from Hibernia, which was meant to be a land of eternal oblivion for this prince, where his memory would be lost without resources.

This disgrace attracted him to another, which is what the same authors stole from him, who thus left him in this foreign country without recalling him in Austrasia, the glory of a large number of acts of piety which they have falsely attributed to the first, or to the third Dagobert, on the meeting of the same name, not paying attention to the huge span of time in which the three Kings of this name lived.

A famous author nowadays, more equitable than those who preceded him, did better justice to this poor prince. He went for that to seek him beyond the sea, and having finally brought him back to Austrasia, he gradually returned the crown to him by putting him back into possession of this kingdom, including the treason of the first officer, his father, Saint Sigisbert, who, blinded by his ambition, had unjustly robbed him.

This author is Godefroy Henschenius, very learned in antiquity (as it seems by the brass instruments that he gave to the public), who reinstated several men and made them justice. He returned to them what belonged to them by putting them back in their ranks.

Posterity will undoubtedly be indebted to the pen of this writer, who has thus written the void that awaits itself in history, and to the memory of St. Rubenius secretary, Council of the Catholic King, who made it (as confessed by Henschenius ingenious discovery).

As he made an express treaty of the three Dagoberts, in which he justified the return of Dagobert II to Austrasia, I would use some of his lights for the summary that I will make of this prince's life to give you the history of Saint Sigisbert III, his father, and the completion that is required for him for his perfection by making known his son, Childebert. To better ensure Dagobert’s permanent removal, Grimoald sent this boy away, with the order to keep him in Hibernia, from where he was instructed that he should never return; his exile must be irrevocable, as the authors of “Relegatus exilio irrevocabili” say.

But Heaven, which makes itself the protector of the oppressed, broke all these measures because, after miserably destroying this Grimoald and his son in punishment for their treachery, he brought this prince by the hand into the inheritance of his fathers, where he was restored.

King St. Sigisbert died in 663 AD. It was shortly after this death that Dagobert, his son, aged 9 or 10 years, was sent to this overseas country, where instead of a royal purple crown, he lived like a cleric.

He remained there until approaching the year 672 AD, when he finally was able to return to Austrasia.

16/12/2024

Dagobert I, King of Austrasia

When the Merovingian King Dagobert I died in 638 AD, "supposedly the last energetic and effective Merovingian King,” according to history books, there followed over one hundred years during which "rois fainéants" (do-nothing kings) ruled the Merovingian kingdoms.

However, this traditional picture is very misleading, as there is a great deal of difference between the immediate successors of Dagobert and the misty figures of the early eighth century. If some seventh-century kings were perceived as "do-nothings," it was due to a dynastic accident; they were minors, under the authority of their mother or the palace mayor.

This period has often been seen, or better yet, portrayed, as the time when there was a gradual and inevitable rise of the Carolingian mayors of the palace, but perhaps more significant in the long run (and far more inevitable) was the way in which the monarchy basically lost control of much of Gaul.

However, the Carolingian reconquest of Gaul in the eighth century only brought a temporary pause in the movement towards regional and local autonomy.

In actuality, later Carolingian historians who rewrote the history of the deceased Merovingian kings in order to justify Pippin's usurpation cast a shadow over the end of Merovingian rule.

The Regnum Francorum of the late Merovingian period was incredibly stable, and while the Merovingians themselves continued to play a significant role in the political and cultural life of the Kingdom, the dynasty continued to produce effective and impressive rulers.

The late Merovingians wielded less influence outside the Frankish heartlands than their predecessors had, and leading armies seems to have been a less important part of their role within society. The Byzantine Emperor supported the Merovingians, and without them, the political processes of the Regnum would not have been possible.

13/12/2024

Bernard of Clairveaux had the following to say about the Cathars: "If you interrogate them, no one could be more Christian. As to their conversations, nothing can be less reprehensible, and what they speak, they prove by deeds. As for the morals of the heretics, they cheat no one, they oppress no one, and they strike no one."

12/12/2024

The French Revolution was “instigated by the Freemasons” under false pretenses, directed by the Jesuits, with the sole purpose of confiscating the treasure of Solomon. Just three days before the troops reached Orval (which, by the way, is not in France but in Belgium), the monks of Orval, under the guidance of 3 or 4 older monks, brought the treasure to the fortified city of Montmedy in the north of France on seven oxcarts. Montmedy is located about 20 kilometers from Orval, and an oxcart can travel a maximum of about 20 kilometers per day.

The soldiers didn’t find the treasure in the monastery. Orval is still a pilgrimage site of considerable importance.

Once in Montmedy, the treasure was brought via a house opposite the church into a network of underground tunnels. Three Cistercian monks agreed to keep the treasure's location secret and safe. Eventually, the monks died, and the exact location of the treasure remains unknown to this day.

The King of France was at that time also fleeing to Montmedy to safeguard himself from the revolutionaries. A detachment of Austrian soldiers was waiting for him to defend the city of Montmedy once the king had arrived. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the king never reached Montmedy but was arrested in a town about 60 kilometers from Montmedy.

11/12/2024

The elm at Gisors represented the Merovingian bloodline, and the battle was about the claim to the right to rule. Henry II, it will be remembered, was the grandson of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem. But this title was bestowed through marriage to the daughter of the previous King of Jerusalem, Baldwin, who did have a direct male succession from the Merovingian Kings. Henry II's claim to France was based on hiding the truth; his claim to blood ancestry was false but politically advantageous if the facts could be concealed. Richard, however, did represent a true claim in a more pertinent sense because his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was a descendant of Sigisbert IV, son of Dagobert II, and thus Clovis, one of the first Merovingian kings.

The Plantagenets established their Merovingian heritage only through Eleanor of Aquitaine; it was valid for Richard to make the claim (though he couldn’t because he wasn’t yet king), but not for Henry II, even though his grandfather had married the daughter of a legitimate lineal male descendant of the Merovingian line and thus became the third king of Jerusalem after Godfroi and Baldwin.

King Phillip of France desired a symbolic break with Henry and Richard. Phillip, too, was descended from the Merovingians.

06/12/2024

06/12/2024

Bérenger Saunière, a priest of Rennes Le Chateau in the 20th century, allegedly translated and decoded some mysterious parchments he found in the Visigothic altar pillar of the ancient hilltop church of Mary Magdalene. The coded message contained references to Poussin as well as to the Arcadian Treasure of Sion and the burial place of the murdered Merovingian King Dagobert II.

The unusual message began, "Shepherdess, there is no temptation to which Poussin and Teniers hold the key." The shepherdess is the most prominent figure in Poussin's composition. Art experts examined the image and discovered that her head is the center of a pentagon that dictates the entire design of the artwork and extends outside the frame.

Berenger Sauniere discovered four parchments that were to change his life and the surrounding village forever. Two of these parchments were genealogies of Dagobert II, the last of the Frankish dynasty of priest-kings known as the Merovingians. The other two contained encrypted messages, which, when decoded, displayed the following:

"To Dagobert II, King, and to Sion belongs this treasure, and he is there dead."

and:

"Shepherdess: No temptation, Poussin, and Teniers hold the key; Peace 681. By the cross and this horse of God, I destroy this daemon of the guardian at noon blue apples."

After finding these parchments, this once-poor parish priest became suddenly and inexplicably wealthy, perhaps because he had found some buried treasure.

This engraved stone, bearing the French inscription 'Dalle des Chevaliers', is believed to have served as the cover stone for the crypt beneath the church at Rennes-le-Château. According to the legend, Saunière found it lying upside down and had it lifted by Adrien Marre and Féliciean Marceau, two local workers.

Beneath the stone was a hole in which Saunière allegedly found a small pot containing a couple of gold pieces, a Visigoth necklace, and a golden chalice dating from around the 13th century (that he later gave to his friend Abbé Grassaud).

He began hanging out with members of the Parisian upper-crust occult set, such as composer Claude Debussy and opera singer Emma Calve. He began redecorating his church and surrounding property in a most bizarre fashion, leaving behind strange clues in an effort to communicate to future generations the secret that he had learned from the parchments. These clues, many involving the use of occult, cabalistic, alchemical, Masonic, and Templar-oriented symbolism.

05/12/2024

Poussin's patrons, particularly those in the religious milieu, wielded the reins of history in the shadow of royalist organizations. Through his Shepherds of Arcadia, Poussin shows himself to be enlightened and illuminating. This drew the Fouquet family, members of the Compagnie du Saint Sacrement, to Poussin.

Nicolas Fouquet faced accusations of forming a rebellion plan by corrupting local governors and officers, fortifying some of his lands, and assembling a fleet of armed vessels for war.

Mazarin, who was a member of the Barberini family, appointed Fouquet as superintendent of finance.

One of Nicholas Fouquet's espionage spies was his younger brother. In Italy, this younger Fouquet met Poussin. They exchanged vitally important secret information. Fouquet junior wrote an ecstatic letter to his elder brother, Nicholas, the huge power behind the throne, frequently referred to by historians as "the real king of France." That letter has miraculously survived in the French archives.

“I have sent to Monsieur Poussin the letter that you were gracious enough to write to him; he expressed extreme satisfaction upon receiving it. You wouldn't believe the effort and affection he puts into serving you, sir, or the talent and honesty he consistently displays.

He and I have planned certain things, about which I will be able to fully inform you in a short time; things that will give you, through M. Poussin, advantages that kings would have enormous difficulty obtaining from him and which, according to what he says, no one in the world will ever retrieve in the centuries to come... and they are matters so difficult to inquire into that nothing on earth at the present time could bring a greater fortune, nor, perhaps, ever its elucidation.

Shortly after Fouquet senior was deposed, he was long considered one of the major candidates by research historians for the unenviable role of the Man in the Iron Mask. Several high-security prisons confined this unfortunate individual before his eventual death in the Bastille. Only St. Mars, the governor and Louis XIV's most trusted agent, could interact with the mystery masked prisoner. St. Mars, the governor and Louis XIV's most trusted agent, destroyed all the furnishings in his cell and stripped and replastered the walls after his death.

Another of Louis' tools, the evil, cunning Colbert, took over Fouquet's duties as finance minister and almost immediately sent an expedition to the Rennes-le-Château region to re-excavate and investigate the ancient Tomb of Arques.

04/12/2024

ET IN ARCADIA EGO

The Shepherds of Arcadia by Poussin is not a "Memento Mori" or a "Remember that you will die"; rather, it is the exact opposite:

Keep in mind Arcadia and the enigmas of Eleusis, or "You will experience a rebirth similar to nature's." The artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) uses the phrase for the first time.
Nicolas Poussin discusses both the paradise that has already passed away ("that of Arcadia") and the paradise that will come during the Golden Age. Arcadia is the home of the gods Zeus (birth), Pan (death), and Hermes (initiation).

Poussin is an architect and builder of a better future, a paradise called ARCADIE (ARC a DIEU), where Pan, the all-horned one, associated with the devil and Christian evil, is no more, thus giving birth to the paradise found so dear to John Milton, protégé and friend of Nicolas Poussin's patrons. The musical concert: music is assimilated into universal harmony.

Nicolas Poussin would have hidden the secret in one of his paintings, Les Bergers d'Arcadie, which alludes to a real landscape, to ensure it remained with him. "Determining the location of this scene and its significance is a challenging task." However, one of the painter's biographers highlights "the meticulous care that Poussin has taken to capture real landscapes in his paintings."

The final two paragraphs of "Secret de Poussin" reveal the hint. Les Bergers d'Arcadie is currently in Paris, at the Louvre Museum, but the public is unable to visit it because it is safe in a reserve. If you want to see Poussin's everlasting work, leave Paris and travel to the Haute Valley of the Aude, all the way to Alet. A few miles away, take the R.N. 613 to the exact spot where it crosses the south of Paris. You are on a little bridge on the seaside at an elevation of 297 meters in the municipality of Arques. From there, you will find a tiny, lengthy path that spans about twenty meters on the right. Follow this path as it leads to the burial site of the Arcadian Shepherds, nestled among the bushes at the end.

Like da Vinci, Poussin emphasizes this immortality because the divine spark is in him, as it is in each of us.

“Happy is he who is able to pe*****te the secret cause of things.”

His work was never to destroy but to build bridges because we must always hope that humanity will come closer, which is easier if we know and understand each other.

This is the essence of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

03/12/2024

Frankish kings follow a tradition of never shaving; instead, they leave their hair uncut from childhood on, allowing it to hang down in abundance on their shoulders. It is now their tradition to distinguish themselves as a unique mark and exclusive privilege of their royal house. They chop off all their subjects' hair and forbid them from growing it out.

This image of the Merovingian kings and their hair, which here takes on an almost magical quality, has captivated historians for generations. Thus, the Merovingians were carrying on a tradition of sacral kingship that dates back to classical times.

Monasteries customarily use tonsure and placement to remove deposed monarchs and their heirs from power.

02/12/2024

The first people to control all of what we now know as France were the Merovingians. Their well-established cultural identity is still present today, and it continues to impact the laws, architecture, and language. They supported the early Roman Catholic Church, and the government they formed was the forerunner of feudalism. Many Merovingians went on to become well-known religious figures and saints. This was the beginning of a lengthy and pervasive nationalist movement that still impacts our world today.

A new definition of the early Middle Ages is also necessary. For instance, the well-known "migrations" were often slow changes, and the spread of Christianity was a protracted process with a lot of personal autonomy.

In the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and France, archaeologists have uncovered a variety of fascinating artifacts from the fifth to the seventh centuries. The magnificent gold treasures and profusion of grave fields filled with status symbols, expensive goods, and jewelry serve as evidence that these were prosperous times in European history.

Furthermore, recent archaeological studies of settlements from the time period have revealed a wealth of new information about people's daily lives, housing patterns, settlement patterns, early industries, rituals, and identities.

29/11/2024

The Merovingians took a lot of tactical cues from the Romans, particularly in the area of siege warfare. Their tactics for fighting were very adaptable and made to fit the particulars of each fight. Subterfuge was a strategy that was used repeatedly. Cavalry formed a large segment of an army, but troops readily dismounted to fight on foot.

Rivercrafts were used on the Loire, Rhône, and Rhine, and ocean-worthy ships were employed in Theuderic I's 515 AD naval campaign against the Danes, demonstrating the Merovingians' ability to muster naval forces.

28/11/2024

The history of Sicambria does not appear in the famous chronicle of Frédégaire, where we find the first mention of the Trojan origin of the Franks. It only appears in Gesta Regum Francorum, also called Liber Historiae Francorum. This historic work of an unknown Neustrian monk was written in 727 AD, not long after the chronicle of Frédégaire. The author first tells us that King Aeneas had reigned in Tulum and that, after the capture of Troy, he fled to Italy, where he founded a new kingdom.

The other medieval source in which we find the name of the town, Sicambria, reports a similar story in essence but very different in details. This source is the fantastic Cosmography of Aethicus, a romantic compilation from the 8th or 9th century.

This one claims that Romulus initially destroyed Europe before defeating the Trojans, who were the offspring of the first great dynasty and had established a new rule a second time while passing through Asia Minor. They thereafter formed an alliance with the Albanians (Albani) and lost again in the Istria highlands (Balkans). The Albanians returned home, but Francus and Yassus, the Trojan Kings, left their country after the Romans had conquered it and went to Rhaetia and Germania, where they established the city of Sicambria.