Newsletter no. 1 - Antrustions

Antrustions
Bi-Monthly News
No. 01- 2020

A Sacred Bloodline
Merovingian Dynasty

By the Order of Antrustions on October 21, 2020

The Merovingian period dating from the beginning of the Middle Ages has largely been eclipsed from conventional historic reference, thus excluding this important period from our general knowledge and is conveniently dismissed as the “Dark Ages”. Contrary to popular belief the opposite is the case, for this was a period of considerable Prosperity, Wisdom and Spiritual Enlightenment, linking people, cultures and civilizations across the then known World.

THIS Month’s
STORY

Story of the Month
By the Order of Antrustions
The Legend of Lorraine

The single rocks, the oddly formed stones were objects of religious veneration during the period of the Gauls. They were seats of the ancient Gods, who received the devotion and homage from the faithful at these sites.
The stone of Milly, a menhir, near Dun-sur-Meuse, is one of the rare examples in Lorraine, a land which has been overrun too often by foreign invasions. If we are to believe the very ancient chroniclers, this stone, under the name of “Pierre Pertusa”, (pierced stone), was formerly used as the frontier marker between the Merovingian Kingdoms of Austrasie and Neustria.
It is also known under the name of “Hotte du Diable” (the Devils Sack), because in the imagination of the primitive Christians, when substituting the God’s of paganism with Satan, and confusing them with the same disapproval. They considered that this stone was undoubtedly a place of pagan worship and of diabolical origin.

All this happened a very long time ago when the gods of the Gallo-Roman pantheon had been usurped in favor of the single God of the Christians.

Saint Saintin had evangelised Verdun and with great difficulty Saint Remacle, the apostle of the Ardennes, had chased from the Forest of the Woevre all the Satyrs, Priapi and Valkyries that had chosen to make their homes there since time immemorial. So Satan, powerless, saw his fortresses fall, one after the other. He no longer knew where to take refuge. He did not dare approach the places sanctified by the new Faith. But he was tenacious and would not admit defeat. So he resolved to make one last supreme effort to take back his old Kingdom and his power.

Above all, he wanted to find the place where the monks of Saint Remacle had establish themselves at Stavelot in Walloon country. He blamed them for all his misfortune and decided to annihilate them. He uprooted a mountain of granite, fixed a large brass ring around it and loaded it onto his shoulders in a sack. He went down into the valley of the Meuse, avoiding Verdun, access to which had been forbidden to him since the arrival of Saint Saintin. His intention was to crush the monastery under an enormous mass of rock.

The “Smoking King” went alone slowly, bent under his burden, which squashed his shoulders. But anger and the certainty of delivering a decisive blow to his enemies increased his strength tenfold.

Meanwhile, his passage spread flames and sulphur everywhere. So he cleared the places that he crossed by fire, scorching the marshy grasslands, burning the impenetrable forests. So he implemented the “slash and burn”, rendering valuable services to the future inhabitants of these lands without being aware of it. But Saint Remacle was warned of the danger which threatened the monastery and without hesitation was determined to oppose the Devil’s disastrous design.

Clothed in a cowl, armed with his pilgrim’s staff, he went out to meet him. On his back he carried a sack, into which he had all the old sandals of his monks. He soon joined up with the devil in the region of Stenay. Exhausted by his long walk and by the weight of his charge, the demon had thrown the rock onto the ground and was sitting on top of it. His brown skin ran with phosphorescent sweat and his breath smelled of burning sulphur. He peered closely at the horizon, looking to see where he should go.

Soon he saw an old man with a scrawny look, who was drinking, and he too was carrying a sack, the weight of which appeared to crush him. It was Saint Remacle, but Satan didn’t recognize him.

When he was within hearing distance Satan got up and went towards him; greetings old stranger.

Without getting up, Saint Remacle returned his greetings.

-“Where are you going like that then”, asked the Devil, who wanted to engage him in a conversation to find out the exact place where the stronghold of his enemy could be found.

-“To Rome”, replied Saint Remacle.

-“That’s a very long way away, indeed”, replied Satan.

-“And you, where are you going, you seem to be worn out”, continued the Saint.

-“I’m going to Stavelot, but tell me old man, is it still far to go”?

-“My poor friend, it is far away, very far away still. I know because I come from there”.

-“Anyway, look at my sack. I have used all these sandals since I left that town”.

-“What”? Said the Devil seeing the impressive number of sandals that were crammed into the sack.

-“So it is still so far away”?

-“Alas, yes”, replied Saint Remacle.

With these words the Devil realized that he would never get to the Monastery with his load. A terrible anger took hold of him and in his rage he seized the rock, pulled the ring from it and threw the enormous mass into the air. The stone made a great arc in the sky as far as the horizon and it fell to earth a long way from there, in the middle of the plain of Dun-Sur-Meuse.

That’s how it earned its name!

Updates from the Antrustions
The Order of Antrustions is in the final research stage and the compiling of our first major publication (book and presentation) regarding the complete history of the Merovingian Bloodline, from the very beginning in ancient Arcadia (Greece) to the end of the Dynasty; when the Majors of the Palaces and the Roman Church conspired together to remove the Merovingian Kings, thus ending the Merovingian period of prosperity and stability.
The annual pilgrimage to the site of King Dagobert ‘s assasination, the Fountain of Alphius, in the forest of Woevre, takes place normally on the last Saturday of August of each year. Due to the circumstances it was canceled this year.
We aim to promote and develop further field trips in the coming year.
We have introduced a referral program for our members, for each new member introduced you will receive the sum of $10 for your support.

Other publications

Antrustions: The Bodyguards of Merovingian Kings.

Merovingian Notebook

Merovingian Crypte of Jouarre

Sigisbert III; Son of Dagobert I and Father of Dagobert II

Dagobert II; True origin of the Royal House of Lorraine

History of Dagobert II; Son of Saint Sigisbert III

All publications are digitally available on our website for our members, or can be ordered:

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A small piece of text from our new publication:

Dagobert II was killed (murdered) during a hunting trip close to his summer Palace in Stenay on December 23 in 679. According to the “official“ history there were no heirs left after his death who could claim the throne of Austrasie, which was the very first Frankish homeland. But as Dagobert was married with Gisela of Razes (his second wife) they had a son called “Sigisbert“.

Gisela of Razes was the daughter of the Count of Razes, (today called Rennes Le Chateau), in the South of France. She fled with Sigisbert to the South of France to be protected by her father.

Genealogy from this main bloodline:

Genealogy:

Sigisbert – died 758 AD
Count of Razes
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Sigisbert II
Married to Magdalene
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Sigisbert III
Count of Razes from 758 – 769 AD
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Bira III
Count of Razes from 769 – 770 AD
Married to Alba
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Guilhelm I
Count of Razes from 770 – 795 AD
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Bira I
Count of Razes from 795 – 813 AD
Married to Romille
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Argila
Count of Razes from 813 – 836 AD
Married to Reverge
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Bira
Count of Razes from 836 – 860 AD
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Hilderic I
Count of Razes from 860 – 867 AD
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Bernard
Count of Razes from 867 – 877 AD
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Sigisbert V
Count of Razes from 877 – 885 AD
Married to Rotilde, who was the daughter of Charles II (Charles the Bald)
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Guilhelm II
Count of Razes
Died in 914 AD in England
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Guilhelm III
Count of Razes
Died in 936 AD
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Arnaud
Count of Razes
Died in 952 AD
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Bira VI
Count of Razes
Died in 975 AD
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Sigisbert VI
Count of Razes
Died in 980 AD
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Hughes
Count of Razes
Died in 971 AD
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Jean I
Count of Razes
Married to Isabel
Died in 1020 AD
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Hughes (known as the Plantard)
Count of Razes
Married to Agnes de Gumieges
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Eustace I
Count de Razes
Count de Boulogne
Married to Maud (Mathilde) de Louvain (Belgium)
Died in 1049 AD
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Eustace II Aux Grenons de Boulogne
Count de Razes
Married to Ida Bouillon(1014-1113) Saint Comtesse de Lorraine Boulogne ‘Ardennes’ daughter of Godefroy Le Barbu d’Ardennes en Doda de Lorraine
Mother of Godfried of Bouillon (1060-1100) and Eustece III, (both famous)
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Eustace III (1058-1093 AD)
Count of Boulogne
Married to Mary of Scotland (Mathilde), daughter of Malcolm the Third, King of the Scots

It is important to realize that there were different Merovingian bloodlines, later Carolingian Kings married Merovingian Princesses to legitimize their Rule as Kings.

Antrustions website

We regularly update and extend our Antrustions website, we now have a total of 140 pages available for our members to browse through and learn about history, the Merovingians and our current Financial System. We will be updating and expanding our website regularly. The aim is to become the most trusted place on the internet for comprehensive information regarding the Merovingians and their history. What can we learn from history to create a better future?

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New Antrustions website pages:
https://www.antrustions.com/introduction-2/
https://www.antrustions.com/from-gaul-to-france/
https://www.antrustions.com/merovingian-villas/

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Our next newsletter will be published on December 21-2020.

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