Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

He later had two children by his mistress. They took the family name of Este. Queen Victoria
was always proud of her connection with the House of Este, which had begun as the House of
Azoll.
The House of Windsor is the world's preeminent family of reigning monarchs today. They
represent the final triumph of the Guelph faction, or black nobility, the culmination of the
Canaanite drive for power. Their rise had been continuous since the 13th century, when they
defeated their most powerful opponents, the Teutonic Hohenstaufen dynasty, who were known
as the Ghibelline faction. They had been named after one of the Hohenstaufen strongholds,
Weiblingen. Frederick I, Barbarossa, as head of the Hohenstaufens, had extended his rule into
northern Italy, where he was surprised by the unexpectedly strong challenge from the Guelph
faction. The struggle, which lasted for more than a century, was won by the lower nobility faction
of the Guelphs because of their strength among the rising merchant class; the Ghibellines, or
high nobility, continued to be the knights on horseback, refusing to sully their hands with trade.
The Ghibellines ruled the northern cities of Siena, Milano, and Pisa, while the strength of the
Guelphs was centered in Florence and Farrara. Otto IV of Guelph carried on the fight against
Philip of Swabia, a Hohenstaufen, but the Hohenstaufens found themselves outnumbered by the
forces of the League of Rhenish Towns, a merchant alliance which was able to raise large sums
to outfit the condottieri. By the end of the fifteenth century, the Guelphs had triumphed.
Alfonso I of Este married Lucrezia Borgia. His sister, Mary of Modena, married James II of
England, bringing the Este line into the English ruling family.
The Ghibellines favored a strong central rule and imperial power, while the Guelphs agitated for
decentralized power and the "Rights of Man," a motto which later became their rallying cry for
their drive to power.
In the twentieth century, the surviving heirs of the Guelph and Ghibelline factions were arrayed
against each other in two world wars. Germany had become a world power through the military
instincts and drive of the Prussian Ghibellines. In 1866, Bismarck, to further his goal of unifying
Germany, had dispossessed a number of German princes from their estates. The Duke of Nassau
and the Elector of Hesse formally renounced their claims; only the princes of Hanover, who were
the heirs to the throne of Brunswick, refused to relinquish their holdings. For decades afterwards,
the Hanovers considered themselves to be at war with Prussia. Indeed, two world wars did take
place, due in part to the continued resentment of the ruling family of England against the rules
of Germany. It is an interesting point that the victorius Hanovers saw to it that a defeated Germany
was split into two, small, militarily occupied countries after World War II, the final revenge of
the victors.
Calvinism, a strong influence in England during the sixteenth century, capitalized on the growing
power of the mercantile fleet and the black nobility, whose main interest was money. Unlike
previous religious institutions, which had placed great emphasis on austerity and vows of poverty,
this new religious doctrine stressed that the charging of interest in loans and the amassing of
wealth was the new way of doing the work of the Lord. It was a welcome revelation to the
growing merchant class that God really wanted us to become wealthy. "Enricchez vous!" became
the new battle cry which swept across Europe as the Canaanites built great commercial empires.
The prophet of this new divine revelation was one Jean Cauin of Noyons, France. He was
educated It the College du Montagu, where Loyola, founder of the Jesuit sect, had studied. Cauin
later moved to Paris, where he continued his studies with the Humanists from 1531-32. During
his stay in Paris, he was known as Cauin. He then moved to Geneva, where he formulated the
philosophy now known as Calvinism. At first known in Geneva as Cohen (the usual pronunciation
of Cauin), he Anglicized his name to John Calvin. This religious movement was based on a literal
Jewish interpretation of the Ten Commandments, Old Testament philosophy, and the prohibition
of graven images. The early disciples of Calvinism were known as "Christian Hebraists." The
advent of Calvinism made possible the great expansion of Jews into further avenues of European
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