Re: [CTRL] splitting of the Templar elm

1999-08-10 Thread Tenorlove
-Caveat Lector- Gisors, not Giseau. It took place in the summer of 1188; both Thomas a Becket Richard the Lionheart were reputed to be there. The story is on pp.119-121 of Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Baigent, Leigh and Lincoln. Tenorlove

[CTRL] splitting of the Templar elm

1999-08-09 Thread Andrew Hennessey
-Caveat Lector- This is more by way of a question for our Templar and Masonic scholars. The rift between the anglosaxon and french bloodlines was said to have taken place at Giseau in France. The two factions it is allegorically said, met in this field at Giseau in France under an elm, one