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However, in response to the fanatical uprising of Zealot<br />

nationalism, the Romans systematically eliminated militant nationalistic<br />

groups, such as the Zealots, from Jerusalem and surrounding strongholds.<br />

Josephus records that over 1,350,000 people died at this time. <strong>The</strong><br />

resilient Zaddoki and Essene cultures survived in Damascus, Alexandria<br />

and in other regions of the Diaspora.<br />

After 200BCE, the Jewish Diaspora accelerated with the decline<br />

of Hellenistic Egypt and Syria. Jews migrated to Italy and to Spain via<br />

North Africa. One of the far-flung lands of the dispersion was Gaul. In<br />

about 12CE the Romans exiled the brother of Herod Antipas, Archelaus,<br />

Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. He settled in the Jewish district at Vienne,<br />

near Lyons, in France. 584 Some twenty-eight years later Herod Antipas<br />

joined him in exile as punishment for beheading John the Baptist. Jewish<br />

migration continued to Lyon, Arles and Bordeaux, culminating between<br />

five hundred CE and six hundred CE with a mass Diaspora movement to<br />

Marseilles and Barcelona.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Zaddoki-Melchizedek line enjoyed great prominence in the<br />

Diaspora of Gaul, especially with the Merovingian Frank Kings who<br />

defeated the Visigoths at Vouillé, near Aquitaine, in 510CE. <strong>The</strong><br />

Visigoth territories in Gascony, Languedoc and Provence and in Northern<br />

Spain provided fertile ground for both Zadok-Melchizedek and<br />

Rabbinical-Cabbalistic streams of Judaism.<br />

<strong>The</strong> French Merovingian Royalty maintained that it was of a<br />

royal Trojan lineage that antedated the Roman Catholic Church. <strong>The</strong>y<br />

rejected Church sponsored coronation. <strong>The</strong>y also claimed to derive from<br />

the tribe of Judah through Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Merovingian kings placed great value on their long hair and<br />

believed that it gave them strength. 585 Samson’s name was common in<br />

the Royal Merovingian Household. <strong>The</strong> longhaired Monarchs identified<br />

with him as the hero Judge of the Tribe of Dan. 586<br />

<strong>The</strong> Merovingians buried their last ruler, Dagobert II, in a cape<br />

studded with golden honey bees. Napoleon removed the honeybees from<br />

Dagobert's tomb and placed them on his own coronation cape.<br />

Displaying the same independence from Papal authority that characterized<br />

the Merovingians, Napoleon lifted the crown from the Bishop's hands and<br />

placed it upon his own head.<br />

Merovingian claims of Davidic succession were an anathema to<br />

the Church. In 751CE, Pepin III the Short deposed the Merovingian King<br />

Childeric III with Papal support. He thereby established the Carolingian<br />

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