Gisors

Gisors, which is often spoken of as the key to Normandy, after fierce struggles had become French.

Normandy, Illustrated, Part 1 Gordon Home 1923

Gisors, which is often spoken of as the key to Normandy, after fierce struggles had become French.

Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923

Tempting though it is to believe otherwise, Plantard did not actually invent a secret brotherhood called Ormus, and the year 1188 was believed to be highly significant in certain esoteric circles long before he penned his account, although it was not linked to the event at Gisors.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

De Sède poses eight questions about the Gisors château, to which Plantard replies noncommittally but articulately, even impressing with his knowledge of esoterica—the tarot, astrology again using a thirteen-sign zodiac, astronomy, and alchemy.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

This was the strange mystery of Gisors, which led to the first appearance of the Priory of Sion in a mainstream publication.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

The town of Gisors also possessed a sacred elm tree—so old it was held up by iron rods and so large it took nine men holding hands with arms outstretched to encircle it.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

As the quickest route from Paris to the coast runs close to Gisors, de Sède argued that Gérard de Villierscould have dropped the coffers off on the way.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

Plantard warned sonorously his emphasis: Gisors, as well asthree other places, are known to the high initiates to be an ancient sanctuary of the Order of the Temple; now, the secret of the Temple is not lost: it is hidden from the profane.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

Historically, there is little or nothing to justify such a hypothesis, as Gisors has only the most tenuous of connections with the original Templars.

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

The archaeologist Eugène Pépin has also written authoritatively of a “network of underground caves” beneath Gisors.8

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006