RootsWeb: Melungeon-L Sephardic Jews and "Bloodline of the Holy Grail"

"According to Jewish historians, the Davidic-descended Makir of the academy did marry, have children and at least one of the male children married into the Carolingian (Charlemagne) royal family, serving as Chamberlain of the Court. From this marriage descend the Counts of Toulouse (France) and Boudoin/Baldwin (France), some of whom became Kings of Jerusalm during the Crusades. So, from Jewish sources which I deem to be reliable, there was/is a Davidic bloodline in France which is carried by the descendants of the Jewish Academy's Makir. Notably, there are also some Sephardic Jewish families (e.g., Abravenel, Sasson, Charlap) who do claim Davidic descent from this source.

However, for me to be convinced that this is correct, I would want to see DNA studies on descendants of these families and those of the Toulouse and Baldwin lineages. If, by some miracle, they all had matching DNA scores, then we would have something remarkable to discuss! (Indeed there are some ultra-Orthodox Jews who believe that if all the Davidic descendants were gathered up and returned to Israel, then the Messiah would come...)

The Christian version of these events, is that Joseph of Arimethea (the brother of Jesus) and Mary Magdelene (who was believed to be Jesus's wife)came to southern France shortly after the Crucifixion (not a complete impossibility, in that France/Gaul was then ruled by Rome, and Mary and Joseph of Arim. were citizens of Rome and could freely travel there.)According to the Holy Grail, Mary either bore Jesus's male child in southern France and/or Jesus survived the crucifixion (via coma-inducing "


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