If modern medievalist scholars imbued by qualification accept fallacious Medieval propaganda as part of their empirical reasoning, how may we trust them to reach an empirical truth. Why would the interpolator casually note where the grave STILL LIES i.e. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work and the ‘Matter of Britain’ would hardly attract so much scholastic endeavour, if truly the subject had reached a conclusion. Geoffrey of Monmouth was an Anglo-Norman cleric and historian, active during the mid-12th century. It is simply not accepted that the Melkin prophecy which mentions Joseph of Arimathea’s burial island is the original document which historically connects Joseph to Britain. In effect, ‘Geoffrey’ seems always to be one step ahead of investigators, being hard to pin down in the contradictions of sentiment found in the content of the HRB, Merlin prophecies and the Vita Merlini. 95. They gave rise to the genre of political prophecies attributed to Merlin. Geoffrey is principally known as the author of several influential Latin works, including the Prophetie Merlini (Prophecies of Merlin) and the Historia regum Brittaniae (History of the Kings of Britain), which he is thought to have written in the 1130s and 1140s. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. The dedications were added later and were purposeful propaganda created by Henry Blois. The substantiation that Geoffrey of Monmouth was really the Bishop of Winchester is plainly documented in these pages. where Arthur is buried, otherwise the manufactured grave site described by Gerald would never have been found. Modern scholars would have us believe that Glastonbury, the great institution of interpolators (or as my uncle called them the officine de faux), decided to leave the whole account of the disinterment of King Arthur to Gerald of Wales. Jaakko Tahkokallio explores the historical works of leading medieval writers. Padel points out: What is certain is Geoffrey’s subtlety and the complexity of his work: the gravest error that we students can commit is to underestimate it.
These chapters were first published separately, before 1136, and dedicated to Alexander, bishop of Lincoln. These texts were hugely popular all across western Europe during the medieval period and over 200 manuscripts of the Historia alone survive, many from the 12th century. In this era of ‘fake news’ the battle of empirical truth against propaganda is the subject of our age. Prof. O.J. The connection between Father William Good and the prophecy of Melkin, Henry Blois’ interpolations and impersonation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geffrei Gaimar and the L’estoire des Engles, The Gesta Regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales (1146-1223) on the discovery of King Arthur’s tomb, Abbadare in the Prophecy of Melkin and Ineswirin as the Island of Ictis, Henry Blois in Rome and Magister Gregorius, De mirabilibus urbis Romae, The Merlin prophecies by John of Cornwall, Chronology of events concerning Henry Blois and the Matter of Britain, The missing Chapter 29 of the Acts of the Apostles. Possibly of Breton descent, he appeared as witness to a number of documents in Oxford during the period 1129–51. Thirdly, this investigation covers the early Grail legends and their origins uncovering by whom they were first formulated. Probably between 1148 and 1151, Geoffrey produced a poem in ornate Latin hexameters, the Vita Merlini, which portrays a Merlin whose adventures are based on genuine Celtic material about a madman with a gift for divination. Pressed by their own false a priori, they ignore Gerald’s testimony; so that their own wrongly constructed theories on the events surrounding King Arthur’s supposed disinterment were not blatantly contradicted by Gerald of Wales’ testimony. They both have wrongly judged that the Melkin prophecy is a fake because they have misunderstood to which Island the enigmatic prophecy of Melkin originally referred to, before the name of the island on the original document was altered i.e. The island is represented in the prophecy of Melkin as the resting place of Joseph of Arimathea but the original document before Henry Blois altered the name of the island, referred to Yniswitrin….. not Avallon. Unless, logically, the composer of Perlesvaus is one and the same person who manufactured the Grave and pointed out in DA where the grave was located i.e. the Melkin Prophecy found at Glastonbury, is his template for the story of the Grail and the reasoning behind King Arthur’s connection to Avalon. Michael Curley also points out Geoffrey's affinity for Wales as, at least once in his re-writing of Nennius into the HRB, he changes scenes to locations closer to the city of Monmouth. Omissions? If scholars are still unclear about which variant or version of the HRB text preceded another chronologically, there is little hope of establishing that the copy found at Bec in 1139 was not a Vulgate text. In three passages of the Historia Geoffrey describes himself as “Galfridus Monemutensis,” an indication that he probably came from Monmouth. Romanticized versions in the vernacular, the so-called Bruts, were in circulation from about 1150. Nowadays, the Prophecy of Melkin’s association to the Island of Avalon is inseparable and for this reason it is dismissed, but the genuineness of the geometrical data encrypted in the prophecy of Melkin is undeniable. We also should remember that the single copy of William of Malmesbury’s DA was presented to Henry Blois as a monogrammed single copy for appraisal…. The various Galfridian versions of HRB will remain an enigmatic composition until modern scholars come to understand that the evolving ‘variant’ editions of HRB and the text of the Vita Merlini were composed by Henry Blois, the abbot of Glastonbury. Of course, she follows the deductions of other scholars (including my uncle) in assuming that it was Glastonbury as an institution that interpolated Malmesbury’s DA. The ‘Blihos’ of Blihos Bleheris gives the anagram H. Blois. The story of the Saxon infiltration during the reign of the wicked usurper Vortigern, of the successful resistance of the Saxons by Vortimer, and of the restoration of the rightful line, followed by the great reigns of Aurelius and his brother Uther Pendragon, leads up to the account of Arthur’s conquests, the culminating point of the work. Researchers have had differences of opinion to exactly gauge ‘Geoffrey’s’ methodology or motivations behind writing such an extraordinary composition. The History of the Kings of Britain book. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. But, Lagorio, by academic default had learnt misguided deductions from previous generations of the learnèd which led her to fatuous conclusions, such as: With this record of prosperity, Glastonbury had little need to enhance its Glory with Arthur’s counterpart, Joseph of Arimathea. The puzzle of the appearance of the Grail and Joseph of Arimathea lies simply in the discovery of the prophecy of Melkin while Henry Blois and William of Malmesbury were sorting through ancient documents trying to find definitive proof of Glastonbury abbey’s antiquity. The problem is that researchers, without exception, have denied the early provenance of the Interpolations into William of Malmesbury’s DA and thus by erroneous chronological deduction have all chosen to brand Giraldus as unreliable. They have also assumed the text of the Vulgate version of the manuscript catalogued in 1160 at Le Bec was the same as that found in 1139 which is obviously not true. This work shows clearly that Avalon and the ‘Chivalric’ King Arthur attested to in the HRB along with the Joseph of Arimathea legend at Glastonbury, and the primary source material of Grail legend was the invention of Henry Blois!!! The evidence presented in this work suffers from English phraseology spoken as a learnt language, but for the diligent inquirer, the truth of the conclusions in this work are self evident when the three genres of investigation are viewed as a whole. Copyright © 2013 Francis LotAll rights reserved, for this site including the right to reproduce this work, or portions thereof in any form.
Paperback Bunko More buying choices £7.27 (2 used & new offers) Paperback £5.95 £ 5. Once our experts understand who propagated the propaganda about Joseph of Arimathea on the continent and at Glastonbury, the Matter of Britain as a whole, concerning King Arthur and Joseph at Glastonbury, will have to be re-assessed. The Interpolation into Orderic’s book XII, The Galfridian Oxford charters and the Bishop of Asaph, Henry Blois and the Meusan Plates or Mosan Plaques, Henry Blois, King Arthur, Archivolt Modena, The 601 A.D. charter regarding Ineswitrin and Glastonbury Abbey, Pytheas and the Island of Ictis or Ynis Witrin in Devon, De Inventione, Waltham Abbey and Montacute.
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