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The dictionary of the Site
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Alaric I
King Wisigoth of 396 to 410.Arien the family of the Baltheses. It seizes Rome and its Treasure in 410. He dies very close to the Bussento. His men divert the course of the stream momentarily, in the bed of which they bury it.
Alaric II
King of the Wisigothses who followed his father Euric in 484. His kingdom included the biggest part of Spain and the Gaulle's half. He was defeated and was killed to the battle of Vouillé and his State collapsed.
Alet-Les-Bains
Ruin of the beautiful church Notre-Dame (X11 e century), cathedral under the former régime. Saint-André church (XIV e century). Spa. Inhabited at the time Roman, then abandoned, this site was chosen in 813 by a Benedictine monastery; A city created itself around, that didn't linger to decline. The most known holder of this Episcopal seat is the Jansenist Nicolas Pavillon.
Asmodée
In Hebrew, Achmedaï. Asmodée appears to have been the mind of the impure love and the personification of the pleasure instincts. Asmodée is also mentioned in the Talmud. He is represented under the shape of a limping devil that raises the roofs of the houses and pierce the secret of the men.
Shepherds of Arcadie (The)
Picture paints by Nicolas Poussin. It represents the characters, three men and a woman, around a construction that can be assimilated to a tomb. On this tomb, a sentence: "And In Arcadia Ego." It seems that the implication of this picture in the history of Rennes-Le-Château is inescapable.
Bézu (The)
Village close to Rennes-Le-Château and placed to its contrary. The Templars would have implanted a commanderie of strong importance there.
Blanchefort
This place, close to Rennes-Le-Château is the one where was built a dominant castle the valley of the Sals and the Rialsesse. this property was between the hands of the Rennes-Le-Château Lords. Numerous are those that there sees an analogy with the Big master of the order of the Temple, Bertrand of Blanchefort. Nothing proves this analogy, especially since the Great Master of the order of the Templars seems to have been original of the Guyenne.
Boudet Edmont
He is the brother of Henri Boudet, it is he that created the card joined to his brother's book and that is sujette of so much question.
Boudet Henri
Cleaned at the time of Rennes-the-baths of Bérenger Saunière he was the author of the book "The True Language Celtic and the cromlech of Rennes-Les-Bains." It is incontestable that he was very close to Bérenger Saunière. For many, Henri Boudet would be the thinking head of the Rennes-Le-Château affair.
Bugarach (Peak)
Higher summit of the Corbièreses. It culminates to 1230 meters. Iit was a long time one of the points of geodesic references of France. The peak of Bugarach imposes its mass to the view that one has the panorama of Rennes-Le-Château. For many, It is a mythical place. Terrestrial boundary-mark for civilizations aliens for certain, place of entry toward the underground world of the Agartha for other. The peak of Bugarach is a place where visual évènements seems to take place regularly. Apparitions of UFO, door of the time, numerous are the witnesses who describe strange demonstrations. Although some have been recorded on verbal suits of state police, nothing permits to affirm or to invalidate the returned facts.
Buthion Henri
It is he that purchased to the family Corbu the domain of abbot Saunière. Henri Buthion, now deceased, was an emblematic face of Rennes-Le-Château. Always dressed of white, generally a costume, he liked receiving in the hotel that he had achieved in the Béthanie villa. He left many memories impérissabe to his visitors. He sold the domain of which he/it was an owner in a Dutch origin SCI in the years 90 of the Xxeme century.
Cabanasse (The)
Close to the Cardou and situated between Comesourde and Rennes the Baths
Captier (Antoine and Claire)
Mrs. Captier is the girl of Noël Corbu. Her father was the heir of Marie Dénarnaud. She knew the maid of Bérenger Saunière numerous years. Her husband, Antoine, child of the village also knew Miss Marie. They are the authors of the book" The inheritance of abbot Saunière ".
Carcassonne
Chief place of the department of Aude being located in the Carcasses. Latin colony to the 1 er century after united JC later to the city of Narbonne, Carcassonne is occupied then by the Wisigothses by the Arabs (725-759) before becoming an independent county, then pass to the family vicomtale of the Trencavels (1082). Taken by Simon of Montfort in 1209, the city is given up to the king of France in 1247.
Cardou (Mount of the)
This mountain is meadows of Rennes-Le-Château. It dominates the valley of the Sals and the Rialsesse. This mountain, for certain, would be the place where would be of the Rennes-Le-Château Secret. Of no sees the place where would be the tomb there. Of the Christ!
Carlat (The)
Farm being at the south of Rennes, to the foot of the Lauzet. The foundations are very old. The name would come from Carolus or Carlemagnus that would indicate an origin going back to the first centuries of the Christian time, compatible with the strong implantation Roman of the baths of Rennes no far from there. Of the former occupants, the family Sanchez, as repairing the roof there would have discovered under a beam, a small pile of gold pieces. Of numerous resurgences and underground ducts to the
immediate surroundings, scold their tumultuous waters in the spring.
Casteillas
Hill being at the south of Rennes-Le-Château. This hill is, for certain, the site of the citadel of Rhédae. It is true that some substructures has been discovered to its summit. However that may be, its position, facing the village, in fact an excellent before station or station of defense of the Rennes-Le-Château village.
Cathars
Medieval Latin, cathari; of the Greek Katharos. In philosophy: Name that one gives, in the doctrines platoniciennes, to the pure notions, or types.
In history: Member of a religious sect of the Middle Ages, of Christian origin, admitting two principles first antagonists, one of the Good, one of the Pain.
The doctrine of the Cathars, that finds in country of Oc an earth of election, be like the doctrine of the bogomiles or pauliniens. The catharisme appeared in Limousin at the end of the XI e century spreads to the XII e in the noon of France: Toulouse, Carcassonne, Foix, Béziers, are the main homes of it. The doctrine rests on a dualism affirming the existence of two principles first, the one of the Good, creator of the spiritual world, and the one of the Pain, creator of the material world. The man, while detaching themselves of matter, escape empire of Satan and unites to the good God.
Rejecting the sacraments of the Catholic church, the Cathars managed a baptism of the mind, the consolamentum, that compelled those that had received (by imposition of the hands) it to one chaste and austere life; In the Cathar hierarchy, one called them the . The simple believers, so-called also "the good men", were held to less rigorous observances and received the consolamentum at the hour of the death.
The Cathars had their bishops and considered themselves like a church. Their life, borrow evangelical charity, was worth them many adepts, but the Catholic church lives in the catharisme a danger for her unit and his dogmas. The crusade of the albigeois (1209-1229) wanted by Innocent III and conduct by Simon of Montfort to the profit of the Capétienses, disorganized the Cathar movement, sustained by the big feudal of the South of France. The Christendom didn't win anything to the ferocious repression exercised against the heretics; The French heritage was impoverished some and the only recipient was the dynasty capétienne.
Chaumeil Jean-Luc
Writer-journalist, Jean-Luc Chaumeil is one of those that knows best the modern affair of Rennes-Le-Château. During numerous years he coasted Pierre Plantard and perfectly know the structure of the Priory of Sion that this last created in 1956.
Corbu Christmas
It is he that achetta in life the property of which had inherited, of the Saunière Vicare, Marie Denarnaud. During numerous years, him and his family shared the intimacy of the former maid of Bérenger Saunière. After the death of Marie Denarnaud, Christmas Corbu created a restaurant in the domain of the former vicar as well as a named restaurant" The Tower ".
Couiza
Chief place of canton of Aude, on Aude, upstream of Limoux. Castle of the Dukes of Happy.
Coume Sourde
Hamlet on the tray to the foot of Rennes-Le-Château. Close to the hill of the Pike and the hamlet of the Valdieu.
Esseniens
Member of a Jewish sect, whose members formed the communities leading the ascetic life. The movement essénien seems to be born of a contestation of the ministration, judged illegitimate, of the sovereign asmonéens. It was known us, until the discovery of the manuscripts of Qumram, solely by the testimonies of Philon, Flavius Josèphe and Pline the old. The indications that these former authors give us on the beliefs and the rituals of the esséniens have been specified and have been completed by the archaeological discoveries of Qumrãm. The big majority of the specialists admits an influence of the essénisme on the newborn Christianity. For a lot of researchers, Jesus would have been esséniens or insider to their mysteries. .
Féral Alain
Author of the book" kingdom of the deaths ", Alain Féral is one of the rare authors having lived to Rennes-Le-Château during numerous years. Surveying during months the village and achieving many footages, are book", Kingdom of the Deaths ", and an element of inescapable memory. He reproduces with the passing of the pages the places as Saunière let them to us.
Excavations
Action to look for and/or to dig soil in the goal to discover a few something, treasure, archaeological pieces. To Rennes-Le-Château the excavations are to forbid of then 1965 by a municipal decree of July 23, 1965.
Gisors
Former capital of the Norman Vexin, city border, Gisors is the object of a quick struggle between the kings of France and the Dukes of Normandy, and solidly walled. Philippe Auguste, to the assembly of Gisors (1188), decides to leave in Earth Saint with Henri II, king of England; he especially tries to move away hisrival, and benefit the disappearance and the confinement of Richard Heart of Lion to seize Gisors (1193). Three treaties were signed in Gisors between the kings of France and England (1113, 1158, 1180,). It is in this city that is located the action of the book of Gérard De Sède: "The Templars are among us!". Already, a key character of the Rennes-Le-Château business participates with Gérard De Sède in the development of the book; It is about Pierre Plantard De Saint-clear.
Grail or Saint-grail
Mythical object of mythology Christian. The legend returns us that Joseph of Arimathie recovered in a cut a few drops of the blood of the christ, then liveliness to die on the cross. He carried away this cut everything along his journey with the Marie when they ran away from Palestine. This object became a mystical quest because of the faculties that are assigned to him. The Saint-grail would give the eternal life to the one that there would drink. For other, the Saint Grail would come of one term deformed Occitan: Blood-real, resulting in Royal Blood. Many authors and researchers think that the Saint-grail would be the treasure and the secret of Rennes-Le-Château. .
Hautpoul (Of)
Last noble family of Rennes-Le-Château. The tomb of Marie of Négri of Ables of Hautpoul is one of the main elements of the Rennes-Le-Château affair. One knows, with certainty, that Bérenger Saunière worked away at the funerary stone of the noble packs down in order to erase the different enrollments there. .
Labadous (Les)
Place being at the South to the entry of the path driving to the Lauzet. Former occupied farm nowadays by a group of some modern constructions. The name would come from Washer because a small very abundant stream exists in this place in the spring and a source of water, plugged today, that offered to the inhabitants its kindness and especially the sweetness of its tepid waters. A few lower the Township did a catchment that provided a very pure water to the inhabitants of the village. The legend wants that one day the farmer of the place found in the gizzard of one of its ducks some small grains of gold of the size of a pea each. Strange because there is not any presence of ore aurifère in the vicinity. .
Lauzet (The)
Big stony tray being below at the South of Rennes. Planted of oaks, he/it appears since the village like a big green task. Occupied since always by the shepherds it is abandoned today... except hunters whom there tracks the boar the fall come. Numerous presence of old tombs and rests of camp. The under soil is filled of underground cave whose entries have been obstructed by the shepherds who were afraid to lose their beasts there. One can find numerous ancient currencies, objects made of bronze, rouelles, pointed of arrow and other marks of an occupation spread on several millenniums, there. .
Lhuillier (Jean-François)
Mayor of Rennes-Le-Château since 1999. He has lead different campaign of renovation of the village: Funeral of the lines electric and telephonic of the village. Rehabilitation of the automotive parking lot close to the Tower Magdala. Restoration of the gardens of the church of the village.
Jean-François Lhuillier is a character who doesn't make the unanimity in the village. His political engagements and his holds of firm positions were often the local subject of conversation
Lincoln Henry
English journalist having worked for a long time for the BBC. He is the author of several books to success centered on the history of Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-Le-Château. His book, and the one of the his two coauthors, "The holy blood and holly grail" and his continuation "The message", are at the origin of the second wave of obstruction of the Rennes-Le-Château history.
Lobineau Henri
French historian. But it is not this character who interests us. Some documents have been deposited in 1954 to the French National Library. These documents give a list of names supposed to be those of all big masters of a pseudo stimulating order the Templars' and named the Priory of Sion. These documents seem to be merely fanciful. The only aspect to keep is that the Rue Lobineau in Paris and adjoining to the Saint-Sulpice church. Many authors based their research on these documents.
Marceille (Notre Dame)
Notre Dame De Marceille is one of the church of the city of Limoux. A cult to a miraculous Black Virgin is dedicated to him. Saint-Vincent of Paul stayed there. (To see the chapter of this Site that is dedicated to him).
Menora
This famous candlestick to seven branches and big measurements was, according to the Bible, placed in Salomon's Temple, in the just piece before the Saint of the Saints where was the ark of alliance. One of the relative theories to Rennes-Le-Château pretends that the treasure of the Temple of Jerusalem would be hidden to Rennes-Le-Château, this last having been returned by the Wisigothses. The Menora would be one of its most beautiful piece of it.
Occitanie
Group of the countries of language of Oc..
Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair
Key character of the contemporary enigma of Rennes-Le-Château. Pierre Plantard, dowry he added Saint-clear" later, pretends to come down from the lineage mérovingienne and to be, in fact, the only pretender legitimizes to the throne of France. It is this same character who gave ample explanations and information to the two famous authors having thrown and thrown back the enigma of Rennes-Le-Château; Gérard De Sède and Henry Lincoln.
Pique (The)
Hill, or rather extremity of the tray of Lauzet. Its appearance really gives the impression of a spades that stands skywards. For some researchers and some authors place The Pike in the center of their histories and theories.
Prieuré de Sion
Association governs under the French law of 1901 and set down in the years 50 to the prefecture of Haute-Savoie, Annecy. It is this organization that pretends to be at the origin of the order of the Templars. It is during the sermon of the crusade, in Gisors in 1188, that a schism between the two organizations would have occurred. Currently, the Priory of Sion seems to be an intellectual phantasmagoria allowing some manipulators to distribute information adapted to the adequate moment on Rennes-Le-Château. If it is necessary to recognize manipulation, it is necessary to recognize that it is orchestrated learnedly.
Razès
Region around Rennes-Le-Château in which the power of the counts of Rennes-Le-Château and the Razès practiced.
Rennes-Les-Bains
Spa for the rheumatisms and the aftermaths of ostéo-articular traumatisms. Henri Boudet was there priest of long years. He was for this village one of his biggest scholars. All his life he was passionately fond for history and the local archeology. He was very close to Bérenger Saunière and one can think with an almost-certainty that he knew his friend's secret.
Ruisseau des Couleurs (Le)
Mythical stream in the affair of Rennes-Le-Château. Iit becomes really stream in the Labadouses, hamlet to the foot of the Rennes-Le-Château hill. It penetrates in a narrow valley to go to join Aude close to Espérazza. It is in the valley formed by this stream that Bérenger saunière went, a hood on the back, to collect some stones to construct the set of underground cave that he builds in the gardens of the church. Some think that he went to a cache to recover the elements of a treasure there. It is also there in the years 1800, before the arrival of Saunière, that a heap of gold pieces agglutinated in the asphalt was discovered.
Saint-Antoine
Patriarch of the cénobites. Rich peasant, he distributes, toward the age of 20 years, his goods to the poor, and retire in the deserts of Thébaïde, where he is followed by a big number of Christian. He founds, in Pispir, to the East of the Nile, and on the left strand of the stream, around Arsinoé, the first two monasteries knew. During the first fifteen years of his stay to the desert, Antoine is obsessed of visions, the temptations, stayed famous in the tradition. He dies to the foot of the Golzim mount, where he had retired. His influence was considerable: hermits and cénobites increased after him in the desert of Egypt. One assigns him seven letters, as well as a rule and the sermons.
Saint-Antoine-of-Padua
Portuguese Franciscan been born at Lisboa toward 1195 and death in Padua toward 1231. First regular canon of Saint-Augustin, he enters at the minor brothers in 1220. After a brief stay in Morocco, he passes his existence to preach in Italy and in France, fighting against the Cathars. He becomes provincial of Italy. His science scripturaire and his oratory will be worth him to be nicknamed "the ark of the will" and to be proclaimed doctor of the church (1946). One invokes it to recover the lost objects. (PICTURE IN DICO)
Saint-German
Or rather German born Cousin in Pibrac, close to Toulouse toward 1579. Poor, infirm, mistreated by her cruel mother, she kept the domestic herd. She offered her sufferings for the repair of the sacrileges assigned to the Protestant. Her tomb became a popular pilgrimage goal. She was canonized in 1867.
Saint-Marie-Madeleine
Saint-Marie-Madeleine's cult passed from the Orient in West to the IX e century. Her first center was, in the XI e e-XII century, Vezelay, whose abbey boasted to possess the Saint's relics. But, to the XII e century, takes body a tradition that wants that Marie-Madeleine with her brother Lazarre and her s.ur Marthe, May to the sea with Jesus' other disciples in a boat without veil and without oars, by Jewish hostile to the Christian, landed miraculously in Provence. Three centers of pilgrimages appeared that Vezelays eclipsed: Saint-Maximin, where the saint's body would first have rested; the Saint-balm, where, during a few thirty years, Marie-Madeleine would have lived an austere retirement; the Saint-Marie-of-the-sea, where would have accosted the boat of the saint and her mates.
Saint-Roch
Born in Montpellier toward 1295 and deceased toward 1327. His life is charged of legends. He would have made many pilgrimages, notably in Rome, nursing under way the plague-striken. His cult spilled since the XV e century. One invokes it against the pestilence and the infectious illnesses.
Sals
River having the property to contain a high content in salt. This river crosses Rennes-the-baths and meeting several hot sources that nourish the thermal baths of this spa. The Sals takes its source instead says" The Fountain Salted" close to the Rock of the eagle and the collar of Fage. In 1992, the Sals, following violent storms, left its bed and ravaged the township of Rennes-the-baths. The damages were identical in all points to those of Vaison-the-Roman.
Stenay
To the northwest of the forest of Woëvre, on Meuse. Former residence of the kings of Austrasie, the city was thereafter, an often disputed strong place. During World War I, the general district of the Kronprinz was installed there.
For a lot of researchers, the presence of Kronprinz, during the world first, is not at random of the. Het would have himself tempted of recovered the trace of Dagobert.
Saunière Alfred
Brother of Bérenger Saunière, he was himself priest. Tower as are brother Bérenger, Alfred seems to have committed several pranks during his life. He was Chief-of-well tutor of the family of the that dismissed it, he seems, for one flight of domestic documents importing. He is very likely that Alfred Saunière had a link with a woman of which he would have had a child.
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Templars
Religious order of Monk-soldiers founds in 1118 by Hugues of Payns, on the initiative of Bernard of Clairvaux. Their implantations in Orient allowed the different pilgrims to travel in better conditions. Philippe IV, said the Beautiful, nonsuited of his demand to make bring his son in the order and not knowing anymore how to put a term to the problem of treasury of kingdom of France, decided to tackle the order of the Temple. Influencing the pope Clément V it succeeded in making open an investigation in opposition to the Templars. To adjust hand of master, and foreseen since several weeks, all Templars of kingdom of France were to stop to the morning of Friday October 13, 1307.
In spite of the torture and the stakes lit by the inquisition, Philippe The Beautiful can never put the hand on the Treasure of the Temple. This tragic episode of the history of France ended in the evening of March 18, 1314, in the island to the Jewish, close to the island of the city and close to Our Lady of Paris. It is there that on the stake was burnt
Tipliés (The)
Hamlet close to the village of the Bézu. Close to this hamlet, facing the hill of Rennes-Le-Château, be the ruins of a former castle. The popular legend pretends that these ruins are those of a former bastion Templar, as the name of the hamlet seems to make think it. For certain, it is obvious that this castle would be of Templière origin, for others it seems impossible. However that may be, a legend runs on the Templars of the Bézu (One brings closer them of the neighboring village). It is said that the day of their arrest, the Templars of the Bézu, knowing what got ready, hid in hurry the bell of massive money of their chapel, to the d bottom of a well and plugged it. Since, every October 13 that the times bottom, it is said that midnight of the fateful anniversary date has, of the shades, structural white coats and cross pattées on the left shoulder, come out of nothing and go up to the ruins of the Tipliéses. It is to this moment, that of underside the earth, one hears the tolling of the money bell. Once the twelve struck midnight strokes, the diaphanous shades of the Templars leave toward nothing.
Tomb of the Pontilses
This tomb was built on a rocky nipple very close to the Rialsesse. Its shape and its measurements were those of the tomb represented on the famous picture of Nicolas Poussin", The Shepherds of Arcadie ". These are this similarity that allowed many authors to see a tie there between the picture of the famous painter and the business of Rennes-Le-Château. In 1981, to exceed to see "researchers" of treasure to damage the places and to rape the tomb, the owner of the places dynamited and destroyed the tomb. On this day, only remains the pedestal and the actual tomb.
Valdieu (La)
Hamlet on the tray of Rennes-Le-Château. It is the last hamlet, if one can say, before starting the coming down toward Rennes-Les-Bains. He/it seems possible, for some local historians, that the Odre of the Temple is had in this place a farm.
Volques
Or Volces. People of the independent Gaulle, divided in two groups, the Arécomiqueses and the Tectosageses, occupying, in the Narbonnaise, the interval understood between the Rhone and the Garonne. Its groups would have separated toward the II e century before JC. The Arécomiqueses were established in the present low Languedoc (region of Nîmes) and the Tectosageses in the region that goes from Toulouse in Narbonne. The Volceses were reputed to come from the southeast of Germania. It is in the Volces Tectosageses that we owe the Cross to the Twelve points, the Cross Occitanes.
True Language Celtic (The)
This book is the one of Henri Boudet, it is for many the esoteric key of all the business. It is necessary to say that its content is hermetic. One can only admit Henri Boudet is wanted absolutely that all languages of the world are descended of English. Nothing that the axiom of departure is aberrant. To its reading one understands quickly that coins a silly aspect a particular message is underlying. Opinion to the amateurs.
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