MICHAEL OF ALBANY-HIS TRUE IDENTITY

From: "Guy Stair Sainty"
Subject: RE: michael of albany - his true identity
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:00:23 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4989643B-4F2B-4227-9AB1-737A1B6B1548@iinet.net.au>


Oh please... The so-called documents found in the church in the south of
Francwe are all now admitted to be elaborate hoax dreamt up by a journalist
for his amusement along with a well-known fantasist who invented the
farcical story of this descent.

There is not one iota of genuine contemporary documentary evidence to
support any of this nonsense and without exception every single serious
biblical scholar, scholar of the Merovingian period and Middle Ages has
dismissed it without qualification or reservation.

There have always been looney conspiracy theories circulating, with their
proponents claiming there are secret documents trhat have been mysteriously
lost or destroyed by people trying to hide something or other. People used
ot believe the earth was flat and there are still small groups pretending
that NASA faked the moon landings. Nothing will persuade them otherwise.

Historical research proposing new radical theories based on secondary
sources is nearly always completely worthless. Historians are trained to
look at contemporary documents and archaeological records. There is
absolutely nothing credible to support these ideas, and stories about
Rosslyn Church, the Templars, secret descents, etc, are pure invention.

I am not trying to be mean but if you honestly consider yourself a serious
student of genealogy or history, demand to see the documentary evidence.
Otherwise do not waste any more time giving credence to these poor deluded
fantasists.

Guy



-----Original Message-----
From: Trish Lawrence [mailto:charli@iinet.net.au]
Sent: 03 April 2006 02:05
To: GEN-ROYAL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: michael of albany - his true identity

Guy

I have to say when I first HBHG I was very sceptical, but I didn't
dismiss them outrightly, I went looking for other works that might
support their theories. There is theological work that does so, as
well as genealogical work. So lets not throw out the baby with the
bathwater.

Trish

On 03/04/2006, at 3:57 AM, Guy Stair Sainty wrote:

> I doubt it will be the last we shall hear of the wretched fellow -
> unfortunately the same kind of conspiracy theorists who gave
> credence to the
> harmless ravings of the authors of HBHG and faithfully follow the
> Word of
> Dan Brown are likely to simply believe this is just another
> conspiracy.
>
> Guy Stair sainty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo van de Pas [mailto:leovdpas@netspeed.com.au]
> Sent: 02 April 2006 15:36
> To: GEN-ROYAL-L@rootsweb.com
> Subject: michael of albany - his true identity
>
>
>> Overwhelming evidence against Michael of Albany
>>
>> http://www.sundayherald.com/54904
>>
> Many years ago I corresponded with Laurence Gardner, author of "The
> Holy
> Blood and The Holy Grail", about the genealogical trees, as I
> disagreed with
>
> several details. We had a very interesting and pleasant exchange. He
> accepted some of my remarks but stood firm on those aspects
> relevant to the
> story. After a while he advised me that the corrected trees had
> been passed
> on to Prince Michael of Albany for his "The Forgotten Monarchy of
> Scotland".
>
> As a result I received an acknowledgement in this book.
>
> "The Stuarts last Secret" by Peter Pininski made clear that the
> claims of
> Michael of Albany are spurious and the above newspaper article
> could/should
> be the last we hear of a Prince Michael of Albany.
>
> Best wishes
> Leo van de Pas
> Canberra, Australia
>
>
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