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Following Godefroi de Bouillon’s successful assault on the walls<br />

of Jerusalem, he assumed the title of Guardian of the Holy Sepulcher.<br />

This title was Godefroi's preference over King, an uncharacteristically<br />

modest choice, continuing the tradition that there should be no king of<br />

Israel until the second coming of the Messiah. His brother Baldwin of<br />

Lorraine had no such inhibition. One year later, he became King Baldwin<br />

I of Jerusalem. Oddly, the circumstances surrounding the death of the<br />

glorious Godefroi de Bouillon remain a mystery to this day.<br />

Hugh of Champagne and his vassal Hugues des Payens explored<br />

Jerusalem in 1104 and in 1114. <strong>The</strong> second visit generated considerable<br />

excitement. Thirty-three members of the Fontaine family of St Bernard<br />

promptly joined the Cistercian Order. Hugh of Champagne donated land<br />

to the Order for the Abbey of Clairvaux with similar enthusiasm. His<br />

protégé St Bernard became Abbot of Clairvaux at the remarkable age of<br />

twenty-five years. St Bernard’s father Tescelin belonged to the family of<br />

Chevalier de Châtillion, who held feudal lordships in Burgundy and<br />

Champagne. 599 His mother Aleth was of the house of the Dukes of<br />

Burgundy.<br />

Having successfully infiltrated the Church and established a<br />

comfortable niche as Cistercians, the Melchizedek houses of Champagne,<br />

Anjou, Gisors and Flanders arranged for nine knights to journey to<br />

Jerusalem in 1118.<br />

<strong>The</strong> knights chose St John as their protector and called their<br />

Temple lodgings St John’s Hostel. <strong>The</strong>y excavated the Temple’s<br />

foundations under the patronage of King Baldwin II, a cousin of Baldwin<br />

I. Hugh of Champagne joined the excavations in 1124CE.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Church had thought it was welcoming the troublesome<br />

Zaddoki-Melchizedek houses of France into the fold of Pauline<br />

Christianity, just as the Celtic Church successfully enjoined in 625CE.<br />

Instead, it had drawn fundamentalist, unshakeable heresy to its bosom.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Melchizedek houses of France regarded the unusual treasure beneath<br />

the Temple as their personal property. <strong>The</strong>y set about recovering it for<br />

their own purposes, as we shall see in Chapter 18.<br />

<strong>The</strong> next chapter focuses on the tribe of Dan and its connection<br />

with the Melchizedekians and Rosicrucians.<br />

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