I have the book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". While I don't necessarily believe all that is says. Basically it chronicles the Meroviginian Dynasty of Ancient France, & the Priory Of Sion. The Prieure de Sion is a fraternal organization whose sole aim is to see the descendants of Christ...RESTORED to their thrones in Europe, this would include the sovereigns of France, the current monarchs of England, Belgium, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and the deposed monarchies of Germany, Italy, Roumania, etc...all monarchies who share the descendancy of Queen Victoria to Mary Stuart, and back to Charlemagne, and the Meroviginian Dynasty,
My biggest annoyance with the recent Holy Grail hype wasn't all the conspiracy theories themselves, but the fact that the authors and commentators did not eleborate on how exactly any bloodline of Mary Magdalene and Jesus got into the Merovingian dynasty (the legend that their ancestor Merovech was the product of a queen and a sea-monster fits somewhat, but not quite, least of all with regard to the sexes) or, just as crucially, what the link between the Merovingians and Carolingians was! As far as I can see some speculative links have been deduced from genealogies trying to glorify the ancestry of the Carolingians, but the truth is that it wasn't very spectacular and any blood link with their predecessors the Merovingians is rather dubious.
It seems that the Holy Grail people just throw out the term "Merovingian" like some magic spell that suddenly links everything, when in fact the Merovingians went extinct, at least in the proven, official line. This lack of a link actually made me appreciate the theory that the Carolingians formed an alliance with Papacy: They got the throne of their former employers, the "sacred Jesus descendants" Merovingians and the crown of the empire that executed Jesus, while the Papacy got the threatening, proto-feminist, anti-authoritarian form of Christianity represented by the Jesus-Mary Magdalene union banned as a heresy, Mary Magdalene branded as a whore and replaced with the Virgin Mary.
Either way there is no Jesus bloodline to modern royalty. His descendants must be either some Occitant ex-Cathar peasants in the south of France (the whole subject's ties with Occitan nationalism is extremely interesting, I think) or some illegitimate descendants of the Merovingians. And they could be anyone. (Just like anyone in Europe can be a descendant of Charlemagne.)
In my opinion the whole matter in most aspects primarily concerns France, "the eldest daughter of the Church" and the very land of Madeleine. (What exactly was it that Proust remembered when he dipped that
madeleine cookie in his tea.....?) And it concerns the regicide that is one of the defining moments in French history: If Louis XVI was a descendant of Jesus, isn't that kind of heretic? I mean, not executing him, but his very being. The idea that Jesus, our dear humble carpenter-god, had descendants who became less than humble kings and emperors of the empire that executed the Son of God, is just wrong! That would make Christianity no better than all kinds of pagan religions where gods were the ancestors of the powers that be. (I wouldn't really have any theological problems with Jesus and Mary Magdalene being a couple and having children, as long as those children were not divine, but just ordinary carpenter's kids.)
If, on the other hand, Louis XVI was a descendant of a bloodline that had ousted the true descendants of Christ by making a diabolical deal with the power-hungry Whore of Babylon (i.e. the Pope), well that would also justify putting an end to the treacherous Carolingian-Capetian line. (Then comes the issue of exactly how genealogically linked to the Carolingians the Capetians were. And whether the fact that Louis XVI was "the locksmith on the throne" is an illusion to Jesus, artisan and King of Jews.) The whole regicide theme could also be extended to Charles I of Britain and NAOTMAA, as they also were descended from Charlemagne.
It's an entertaining, mostly fictional synoptical rebus of our whole occidental heritage, I think: Just like the linguistic rebus at the heart of the subject: Is it san-greal or sang-real...
