Pierre Plantard claimed that the Knights Templar were manifestations of the Priory of Sion. That allowed Plantard to claim the Rosicrucians, along with the Knights Templars, and even the medieval Cathar heretics, as manifestations of the Priory of Sion. Plantard even roped in Johannes Andraea, the alleged author of one of the mysterious 17th century Rosicrucian manifestos. He claimed that the society aimed to restore an order belonging to the First Crusade in the 11 th century, and that Priory’s original grandmaster was the first crusader king of Jerusalem.Īccording to his pseudo-history, some figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Victor Hugo, and Claude Debussy, the French composer, were the grandmaster’s followers. Plantard’s attempt to create the Priory in 1956 enjoyed more success than the previous ones. This is a transcript from the video series The Real History of Secret Societies. But it wasn’t successful in getting the occupying Germans to like them. In 1942, Plantard established another patriotic brotherhood called Alpha Galates, with 50 members who had anti-Masonic and anti-Semitic attitudes. It was a small right-wing society with only three members other than Plantard. In 1941, the Vichy French police found out that Plantard was the head of a society called French National Renewal. ![]() For example, in the late 1930s, he was connected to a terrorist secret society called the Cagoule as well as many other orders linked to Synarchy, a political conspiracy to occupy France. He was involved in many other dubious activities. ![]() That’s because of his conviction for fraud and forging esoteric degrees three years earlier. The official paperwork related to the foundation of the Prieuré de Sion or Priory of Sion did not have any indications of Plantard’s name. The instigator of the society was an occultist who was once a fascist: Pierre Plantard. In 1956, a new secret society emerged in France. Pierre Plantar invented pseudo-histories about the background of his secret society, Priory of Sion. ![]() Two such societies emerged at the same time but in different countries. They pretend to be involved in activities that are beyond human imagination, even fabricating pseudo-histories. Some of these hoaxes have been exposed, but we do not know how many others exist. Spence, Ph.D., University of Idaho The history of secret societies is rife with hoaxes and disinformation.
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