Rennes-le-Château – The Archives of the Priory of Sion Part 1 : presented by Donny Gillson

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From the gold of Rennes-le-Château to the descendants of Merovaeus

Foreword by Claude Jacquemart

At the heart of one of France’s oldest regions, scorched by the sun and shaded by the Pyrenees, rests an immense and fabulous treasure. Long ago, hordes of warriors such as Carthaginians, planning to destroy Rome by outflanking it over the Alps, Visigoths, Saracens, and Aragonese, crossed this land called the Razès - at times coming from the North and at other times from the South. The Razès was home to the large city of Reda with its defensive walls and towers. In the 6^th Century A.D., the kings of the Visigoths had made it one of their two capitals, the other one being Toledo, in Spain. Reda has disappeared, wiped out by Spanish troops led by Henri de Trastamare. In its place, there is now a small village called Rennes-le-Château. It is not an ordinary village and therein lies the clue to the treasure – both material and spiritual. Many have searched for the treasure of Rennes-le-Château; others are still looking for it. One person, a priest, who lived at the end of the 19^th Century and beginning of 20^th Century, found it, in part. His name was Bérenger Saunière, parish priest of Rennes-le-Château.

What Bérenger Saunière discovered is now safeguarded in a strongroom in the basement of a curious villa in Switzerland. But this material treasure is only one of the aspects of the dormant secret in the Razès Mountains. This secret, revealed little by little, is that of the descendants of Merovaeus, the first kings who reigned over France. History wiped them out with Childéric III, deposed in 752 A.D.. However, the dynasty of Merovaeus and Clovis did not perish. With its roots in the Razès region, it is still alive, as many claim their ancestry to the circle and fleur-de-lis represented on the coat of arms of the counts of Reda, heirs to the Merovingian blood. They appropriated Nostradamus’ prediction “From a circle, from a lis, a great Prince will be born…” To serve them, a mysterious society was created and took the name of Priory of Sion. Its initiator was Godefroy de Bouillon, King of Jerusalem and descendant of Merovaeus.

This is the obscure and bloody story we have chosen to relate. We are not the only ones fascinated by the treasures buried away in the Razès region. Before and after Bérenger Saunière, many tenacious researchers have tried to unravel the mystery. Some lost their lives in their quest, others, only a little luckier, lost their minds. There is a wealth of literature surrounding this astonishing affair. Initially, there were chronicles left at a local level in the Languedoc libraries. Then, writers came along, like the Marquis Philippe de Cherisey with Circuit or Gérard de Sède with his book Les Templiers sont parmi nous (The Templars are Amongst Us), followed by L’or de Rennes (The Gold of Rennes).

Two events fascinated us in this strange affair.

The first was an article published in the daily newspaper La Dépêche du Midi in December 1972 which related that researchers, believed to be Israeli, had started some excavations around Rennes-le-Château. In what way could the Razès region be of any interest to geologists from Israel? Let’s think. In 70 A.D., Titus and his legions took Jerusalem at the end of one of the most atrocious sieges in history. However, the treasure of Solomon and its main piece, the gold seven-branched candlestick so valuable to the Jews which Tradition says was created on the instructions of Yahweh Himself, was rescued from the blazing fire. The spoils of this pillage were taken to Rome. At the beginning of the 5^th Century, the Visigoths of Alaric captured and ransacked Rome and the treasure of Jerusalem fell into their hands. When they settled in Spain and southern France, they hid their plunder in two capital cities, Toledo and Reda. Amongst the treasures was the self-same seven-branched candlestick from the Temple of Solomon. Jews are possibly the most mystical people on earth. During nineteen centuries, they dreamt of Palestine and could not rest until they were returned to it. Since 1967, when they reconquered Jerusalem, the Israeli have been proclaiming they would be prepared to negotiate everything to establish peace with their Arab neighbours; everything other than their authority over Jerusalem, the Holy City and historic capital of the Hebrew nation. Agents sent to Languedoc by the Israeli services to find the seven-branched candlestick will only appear as a foolish hypothesis to those unaware of the Jews’ deeply held motivations.

The second event that aroused our interest was a file that Jean-Luc Chaumeil gave us at the end of 1972. He was young and passionate and, day after day, had roamed the tormented mountains of the Corbières region, interrogated the ruins and cemeteries, and met with the better-informed on the enigma of Rennes-le-Château. He told us, ‘I know where the treasure items discovered by Father Saunière are kept. I have seen them. I was allowed to photograph them. I found out also that there is an occult society which knows the secret of Rennes-le-Château and preserves it in the shadows as well as being focused on the realisation of their mysterious objectives…’

The Israeli investigation in Languedoc and the case of Jean-Luc Chaumeil, supported by very convincing photographic evidence, were sufficient reasons for us also to take an interest in the Razès and its amazing past. 

The treasure hunt

On 10^th December 1972, the daily newspaper La Dépêche du Midi of Toulouse published the following lines “But what were the four men staying in an inn on the Carcassonne to Limoux road doing, last autumn; leaving in a jeep every morning at dawn and returning at nightfall exhausted and covered in mud? The hotel records mentioned that they were geologists. The samples and specimens from their core drilling of the lands were apparently destined for a foreign petroleum company. Although they spoke impeccable French, when they were amongst themselves they shared an idiom that was difficult to identify. Thanks to a person who had lived a long time in Tel-Aviv and had overheard one of their conversations, it appeared that they were Israeli researchers. The event was even more puzzling as no petroleum concession had been granted to a foreign company in the region. Therefore, what were they doing in Rennes-le-Château? What if they were secret Israeli agents?”

Everything that concerns the village of Rennes-le-Château is cloaked in mystery. A legend has been associated with it for centuries; that of a treasure, or several treasures, supposedly buried in or around the village. This legend is not without foundation as a local priest, Bérenger Saunière, revealed part of it at the end of the 19^th Century. Rennes-le-Château, in the Cathars’ territory of the upper Aude valley, is a little village of two hundred inhabitants perched on the top of a hill in front of the Black Mountain. Going up the river Aude towards the Pyrenees, the traveller crosses vast Dionysian valleys where vines stretch away as far as the eye can see. In the distance, one can see the crenellated walls of Carcassonne; the manifestation of a grandiose and dramatic Middle Ages. In the south, the Pyrenees dominate like imaginary castles. There, in the Razès, the fertile plains stop not far from the headspring of the river Aude where the countryside is nothing but red ochre against a pure sky, and it is in this rocky region that the grapes for Corbières wine ripen. Here and there, castles in ruins can be seen amongst the stones and bushes. They bear witness to the flamboyant past of the area which belonged, some fifteen hundred years ago, to the barbaric kingdom of the Visigoths. In the north, we have the towns of Limoux and Carcassonne, to the east Perpignan, and to the west Foix. This is the southern boundary of the old Albigensian territory. Forty kilometres to the south east of Foix as the crow flies, about eight centuries ago, the crusaders of Simon de Montfort, escorted by their inquisitors, went across that land wiping out in the blazing fire of Montségur the remaining witnesses of the Cathars’ religion, strange men who were called “the Perfects”. Going south from Limoux, past the towns of Alet-les-Bains and Montazels, a deep road with the peak of Cardou on its left and the rock of Blanchefort on its right, leads to Rennes-les-Bains, a small thermal town that is still surrounded by megalithic walls. South of Montazels, a sinuous road, dangerous and buzzing with cicadas, takes you to Rennes-le-Château. Positioned like a tiered cake on the plateau, the village is a belvedere over the two equally beautiful valleys of the Aude and the Sals. On one side, the eye embraces the country villages of Lavaldieu and Bezu where the Templars kept three commanderies; on the other side it envelops Arques and the ruins of Coustaussa which, as the name implies, is the custodian and vigilant guardian of these wild places. The origin of Rennes-le-Château is so ancient and so mysterious that historians and archaeologists dare not advance a date. Father Mazières, in his work on the Venue et séjour des templiers à la fin du XIIIè siècle et au début du XIVè siècle dans la vallée du Bézu (Arrival and Sojourn of the Templars at the End of the 13^th Century and Beginning of 14^th Century in the Valley of Bézu) merely notes that the region of the Razès became famous because of its legends, its traditions, its secrets, its enigmas and a great number of discoveries, some of which were sensational.

Rennes-le-Château, once upon a time called “Rhedae”, derives its name from the Visigothic word “Rheda”, meaning chariot. Very quickly, the area developed economically. The ferruginous springs and cold salt marshes of Rennes-les-Bains were exploited from ancient times for their therapeutic virtues. A Neolithic ossuary discovered in the last century indicates that the land was inhabited long before our era. Iberian tribes settled there, followed in the 4^th Century B.C., by the Redone people from Belgium. In his work Mémoires de l’Histoire du Languedoc (Memoirs on the History of Languedoc), the historian Guillaume de Catel relates that the Romans also settled in this area, not because of its beauty as it is not blessed in that regard by nature, but for its profusion of diverse minerals. Indeed, besides the great mineralogical and hydrographical resources, the Razès has numerous deposits of amber, jet, iron, sulphur, silver and gold. The region owes its early development to the exploitation of these resources. The Roman road that crosses it to Spain was later used by pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, and luxurious thermal baths for wealthy sick people were built in Rennes-les-Bains.

However, it is especially around the subject of its gold that the history of Rennes-le-Château becomes blurred. In 410 A.D., Alaric the Ancient, King of the Visigoths, ransacked and pillaged Rome. Amidst the plunder was the treasure from the Temple of Jerusalem, stolen by Titus in 70 A.D., with the famous gold seven-branched candlestick. In the 5^th Century, the Visigoths conquered Languedoc and kept their plunder in two places. The Kings’ personal items were secured in Toulouse, whilst the ancient treasure from the spoils of war was held in Carcassonne. In 507 A.D., Clovis, King of the Franks, conquered and pillaged the city of Toulouse. The old treasure in Carcassonne was safeguarded thanks to the intervention of Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths in Italy. In the 7^th Century, the Franks swept through the Languedoc region once more. The Frankish historian Fredeguaire relates that, after the capture of Narbonne, they found only ‘sixty chalices, fifteen patens and twenty chains’. The Visigoths hid part of their ancient treasure near Toledo. From that moment, their power was restricted to the Razès region. Reda grew in importance and it became a diocesan capital. Today, only a village remains from the unassailable fortified city of Reda, which became one of the capitals of the kings of the Visigoths in the 6^th Century, the other being Toledo, and which gave its name to Rhedesium, or the county of Razès. In 1361, Reda was completely destroyed by the Aragonese troops of Henri de Trastamare. This represents, therefore, the geographical setting and first historical context regarding Rennes-le-Château and the Razès. We will see later that many more well known and secret events in the history of France are linked to this village and region. 

Shedding Light on the Treasure and Legacy of
Rennes-le-Château and the Priory of Sion

Translated from the French by Chantal Low

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