By Nicholas De Vere

The Dragon Legacy

The Secret History of an Ancient Bloodline

ISBN - 1585091316

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A Selection of Articles by Nicholas de Vere

The Greatest Fraud

(The Donation of Constantine)

The Donation of Constantine first appeared during the 8th century and was a document which purported to recognise the Roman popes as Christ's representatives on Earth and to donate to Pope Sylvester and the Roman Church all those Imperial powers formerly invested in the Throne of Byzantium.

The 'Donation', the Church claimed, was written in the 4th century at the insistence of the emperor Constantine. The Church said that he was so grateful for having been cured of leprosy by Pope Sylvester, that he gave into the Church's hand the entire power and wealth of the unified Roman Empire, including the right to crown and dethrone kings. Now that is what you call expensive medical insurance.

Supposedly written before 337 AD - the year of Constantine's death - the Donation of Constantine actually didn't make an appearance on the stage of European history until four hundred years later. So far-reaching are the powers bestowed upon the Church by this document, one would have thought that it would have been made public at the time of its bestowal. Not centuries later.

The provisions of the Donation were enforced in 751 AD following which the Merovingians were deposed by the Church and replaced by their sycophants, the Mayors of the Palace who later became known as the Carolingians. The Church had made a pact with the Mayors and offered to 'recognise' their legitimacy as rulers if they would dispense with the true Dragon Kings. The deal was done and the Carolingians were made the puppet rulers under the Roman Church.

The Donation, because it was made by a Dragon King, Constantine, legitimised the Church's right to take this action. To all intents and purposes they had the authority of Dragon Kingship given up to them by this Charter. No doubt the Merovingians knew this to be a fraud, which is why they refused to recognise the authority of the Church to meddle in affairs of state. What do we learn from this?

We can see from the Church's choice of 'benefactor' that the Church was well aware that universally, only those of the Dragon Blood would be recognised as true kings. Therefore they chose Constantine as he was known to have been descended from both the Britannic PenDragon House and the Dragon House of David. Furthermore he was a member of the Desposyni - the heirs of the Lord - the blood descendants and legitimate representatives of Jesus Christ. In the Donation, it appeared as if Constantine had relinquished his hereditary spiritual position as a Messiah and invested it in the Papacy.

By suggesting they were the representatives of Christ, the popes were claiming Dragon descent for themselves. It was well known that Jesus had descendants and that they were part of the only Eurasian dynasty which was authorised to be kings - the Elven Overlords or Dragons. It would have appeared to the public then, that in the displacement of the Merovingians, one Dragon dynasty was being replaced by another, albeit a paper one. This reduced any danger of mass unrest. As time passed however, it became uncomfortably clear that the function of kingship under the Merovingians had been entirely different to that under the Carolingians. Whilst the Merovingians had formerly assumed the role of overseers, sages and wise counsellors, the Carolingians and their successors, prompted by the Church, became deliberately poorly educated, ignorant, insensitive tyrants and territorial tradesmen.

Dragon Kingship and the Grail Code had died to be replaced by a corrupted form of feudal totalitarianism and brutal, economic slavery as the Church carefully and strategically replaced the old dynasties with its own merchant-class client families who, from that day on, became vassals of the Vatican.

Lastly we learn that from 751 AD the true Dark Age began in earnest. The Elven Holocaust was initiated and would run its course for another thousand years until, in England at least, the witchcraft laws were repealed in 1736. North of the border in Scotland, however, the persecution of witches in the 1700's was at its fiercest until the end of the century.

During this time, history has witnessed the rise of the Church of Rome and its successful struggle for power. In time, no dynasty ruled in Europe or remained in power unless the Church sanctioned their reign. The Church chose the royal families, it crowned kings and it deposed its detractors. In short, the Church, under the auspices of the Donation of Constantine was the sole and supreme temporal power in Europe and the known world. Without this purported imperial benefice however, the Church would have remained a marginalised Mediterranean cult contesting for patronage along with a host of other gnostic Christian denominations.

The royal dynasties, sponsored by the Church and crowned by its Divine Right, instituted their courts and parliaments, passed laws and employed agents to act on their behalf. To all intents and purposes it seemed as if the Church had the absolute right of Dragons and wielded power by the very sanction of Jesus Christ and God.

No monarch reigning today and no government under the monarch or instituted in their name would enjoy their position if the Church, empowered by the Donation, had not given them permission to rule in the first place. Without the Donation of Constantine, European history today would be totally different and none of the dynasties past or present would have had the right to have reigned. Nor would they reign now and none of their governments or agencies would have exercised power.
One slight problem, though. The Donation of Constantine is a complete and utter fraud and the Church was never given any temporal powers at all, let alone the right to found dynasties, crown kings or institute governments. The whole document was a lie from beginning to end and has been known to be a fake since Lorenzo Valla applied the methods of historical criticism to it during the Renaissance.

How do we know Valla was correct? The New Testament references incorporated into the wording of the Donation were taken from the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible. The Vulgate Bible was compiled by St. Jerome who was born more than two decades after Constantine was supposed to have signed the Donation. The actual Vulgate Bible wording that appears in the Donation didn't exist until St Jerome invented it, fifty years after the document had supposedly been dated and signed by the Emperor. By this time Constantine had been dead for decades and couldn't have signed the Dragons’ rights away anyway.
The language of the Donation is eighth century clerical or dog Latin, whilst the Latin used in the 4th century Empire was late classical Roman. The Imperial and Papal ceremonials described in the Donation didn't exist in Constantine's time but were developed some centuries later.

Several documentary instances of the Church's use of the Donation to assert their authority in the medieval period still exist, including the letter of Pope Gregory IX entitled 'Si Memoriam Beneficiorum' dated October 23rd 1236 and addressed to the Emperor Frederick II. Pope Gregory writes ".......that as the Vicar of the Prince of Apostles (the Roman Pope) governed the empire of priesthood and of souls in the whole world, so he should also reign over things and bodies throughout the whole world; and considering that, he should rule over earthly matters by the reins of justice to whom - as it is known - God had committed on earth the charge over spiritual things. The Emperor Constantine humbled himself by his own vow and handed over the empire to the perpetual care of the Roman Pontiff with the Imperial Insignia and sceptres and the City and Duchy of Rome........".

People in the medieval and Renaissance period, confronted with this document, did not generally criticise the Donation on the grounds of its veracity. They just exclaimed aghast that they could not believe that Constantine would have been stupid enough to have given the Roman Church everything.

From the Donation we understand that Constantine offered the Pope all the robes and Crowns of office but the Pope, being such a humble man, gave them back to the Emperor. This lets the Church off the hook should some malcontent turn up and ask for sartorial evidence. If the readers read the Donation for themselves they will be appalled at the pretentious egotism, the arrogance and the sheer material greed of the Church, as authors of the document.

The fraudulent imperial power of the Vatican to create kings by 'coronation' - derived from this faked 8th century 'Donation of Constantine' - was later adopted by the Archbishops of the Church of England with the complicity of the Tudors, who were Catholics themselves.

When he split with Rome, Henry VIII still retained and later ratified and re-established in the Anglo-Catholic Church of England the fraudulent right of the Church's clergy to create by coronation, a succession of British monarchs. This was an illegal act. The 'Donation of Constantine' was proved to be a completely fake document. Therefore no Royal Elven House that knew its origins and cared about social justice could possibly bring itself to recognise a Christian British monarchy or any of their Church sponsored, Church crowned predecessors or any of their regnant or formerly regnant, European cousin Houses.

Because the Donation was a fraud and no subsequent priest of any Catholic derived denomination ever had the right to crown kings, Britain has had no legally reigning monarch for 900 years. As a consequence of this, all the laws passed by these monarchs were and are illegal and worthless and all the governmental agencies set up by or derived from these monarchs or their laws are also illegal and worthless up to the present day.
When considering this, the reader might like to consider the fact that all the arrests ever made by the police in Britain and Europe are acts of kidnap and habeus corpus. Equally, any man who has taken up arms for the Crown and killed for his country is unprotected by law and guilty therefore of murder.

However, paradoxically, as the entire British legal system is illegal, there are no laws, and so the crimes of habeus corpus and murder as we define them today, simply do not exist. Subconsciously people know that their politicians and monarchs have no legitimate authority to rule over them. They manifest this knowledge in an increasing disrespect for these optional, arbitrary and illusiory social conventions, which is yet another reason why social order is breaking down.

If the UN is right, we may face chaos in the near future; and all because of a stupid fraud, perpetrated by a group of myopically greedy, maniacal peddlers of false religion who are now long dead.

Again, for asserting this kind of view the Fairies are implicitly guilty of Treason, even though all British laws are constitutionally illegal and the act of treason itself is a non sequitur. Think of the implications of this.

It applies to any nation state in the Christian world today which is still a monarchy or which has evolved as part of a successive, developing political process originating from a monarchy, by virtue of its continuing sanction from, or sponsorship by, the Church of whatever denomination. It is unauthorised by any temporal or divine power to coerce anyone to obey any law originating at any stage of that government's evolution.

In effect, Britain, Europe and America are ruled by the sword, and that sword is being wielded by people who are no more than short sighted, self seeking robber barons. They have no constitutional right to rule even in America, where in the 19th century, the libertarian commentator, Lysander Spooner, demonstrated that the consensual nature of the original document, upon which the subsequent, consecutive clauses are founded, was being flouted, thereby making the entire Constitution illegal. Pierre Proud'hon called them all "Tyrants and Usurpers". Next time you are tempted to eulogise Western Democracy, bite your tongue and let your brain select first gear before you open your mouth. Flawed or otherwise, the idea that the English speaking world has any democracy at all is a joke.

At the beginning of this work the author stated that the people have been conned enough. He now hopes that the readers might appreciate for themselves the precise extent to which the people have actually been deceived. They have accepted a state of affairs where they and their ancestors have been enslaved by a chameleon-like corporate body that has destroyed their creativity and robbed them of their psychological liberty and their freedom of conscience for over a thousand years.

The entire moral basis of our society is founded upon a massive historical lie which has twisted the minds of generations of individuals until they have become terrified of the natural drives of their own bodies and souls.

The resultant taboos that have been created have been used to divide the minds of the people and make them dependant on the Church-State for solutions to the problems of resisting Satan and fighting temptation and sin, when these contrived, nonsensical whimsies never existed in the first place.
As a result, western Christian society was turned into an open air lunatic asylum packed full of lost souls who weren't lost at all and had no need of a cure for diseases of the soul they weren't actually suffering from in the first place.

The Church created the confusion and the division and then offered the solution. In fear the population invested its trust in the perfidious Church and in return for their confidence the Church turned the people into slaves and an entire civilisation into a manufacturing plant to service their own greed for luxury and power.

For a thousand years the Fairies have remained silent about their identities - formerly for fear of their lives - latterly for fear of becoming social outcasts and objects of mirth and derision. Still however, a shadow of menace lies over the ancient families. Greed will go to any length to ensure the continuity of its satisfaction and the same motives that prompted the Church to murder and lie in the past, still prompt their merchant-class puppets to kill and deceive today.

Nicholas de Vere 2003

 

Prince Nicholas de Vere's now infamous Monumental Rant -

... from the erstwhile dragoncourt.org website ...

Introduction to Dragoncourt. org

It is intended that the Dragon Court will continue to publish individual aspects of its history, along with references to the classical folklore and mythic customs of Europe and Asia which are directly linked to the Dragon tradition.

We trust that visitors to this site will find the given details sufficient to cement the facts pertaining to the Court, facts which positively disassociate this Court from other presumtuous Orders such as the recently formed Roman Catholic, Hungarian Social Club also calling itself "Sarkany Rend".

Trading off the back of the public ignorance of the Sovereign Law into which remit these people place themselves and with great emphasis for the assumed validity of such an action; they publicise the fact that their "association" was registered in a High Court in Budapest, as if this vouchsafed its authenticity, or as if such registration had some form of nobiliary significance or import, but that Social Club - for that is all it is and that is all it is registered as with the judiciary - is not recognised under Hungarian Constitutional Law as a Chivalric Order or Court, because Hungarian Republican Law is constitutionally incapable of recognising the validity of so-called Royal or Noble Courts or Orders re-established within its borders. Having already been offered this dubious honour - that of being "registered" in the same High Court years ago - the Dragon Court ignored it because Sarkany Rend, as it is ill-named, is not a Hungarian National Order. It isn't even an "Order", so the idea of anyone being ‘knighted’ into it is ridiculous. We nevertheless received a letter in the mid 1990's from the Secretary of the Prime Minister of Hungary recognising this, the Angevin Dragon Court, as Sarkany Rend and desiring that he be included amongst our number as the Charge d'Affaires of the Dragon Court in Hungary.

In addition to assuming the name Sarkany Rend this Hungarian body, or its new associates or both, have apparently also misappropriated the Name and style of The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and Order of the Dragon Sovereignty, along with numerous devices and designs which originated from, and are the copyright of this, the original Imperial and Royal Dragon Court. Purely as a legal consideration the copyright was registered in the British Law courts years ago. This dubious piece of egotistical, nationalistic Hungarian fol-de-rol was founded by some Roman-Catholic monseigneur and it has no more Royal, Nobiliary or Chivalric status than a British, Northern Working Mens Club. Along with all the other silly so-called Royal, Noble or Chivalric Courts or Orders established or patronised throughout history by the Roman Church or its offshoots, pathetic social clubs for pathetic social climbers, both it and they all continue to be illegal by virtue of the fraudulent and consequently spurious Royal and Noble powers assumed by the Roman Church under the auspices of the equally fraudulent and spurious Donation Of Constantine. However, as defined within the main body of the following text, the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court represented herein, which actually is legitimately recognised as the Sovereign Court of The Sovereign Dragon Nation by the relevent and appropriate Government of a European Member State, is a closed fraternity of individuals, representing those who trace their ancestry and affiliations back to the ancient Grail and Dragon families. It is not in any way a joining club or membership subscription society. Neither is it a commercial, religious, political or charitable institution.

A Closed Fraternity

When the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court was reconstituted by King Sigismund in 1408 as the Societas Draconis, it was based upon an ancient bloodline tradition which Sigismund assumed that he had inherited from his presumed Egyptian and Scythian ancestors through the Pictish, Dragon Princess Maelasanu of Northumbria and the Ancient and Original Angevin Royal House of Vere of Anjou, the Imperial Dukes of Angiers. This line had descended through the Tuatha de Danann (The Dragon Kings of Anu) on the one hand, and from the Egyptian Dragon dynasty of Sobek on the other with the latter strain including some backwater bloodline called the Davidic House of Judah who married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. Quick detour: Anyone with a brain, on reading any of the numerous offerings which mushroomed up as a result of the publication of the work of the "Holy Blood Holy Grail". Trio will be asking themselves why on Earth there is any special significance in Jesus's bloodline, and how such a descent could possibly legitimise the claims of the numerous Merovingian Muppet Show candidates for the throne of Europe who have recently presented themselves to the public. The answer to this question of significance is that Jesus's descent is only remarkable because for millenia we have been fed a certain view of him as the virgin King of the Jews by the Church. So any significance that might be obtained from claiming descent from this obscure Jew, is derived merely from juxtaposing an new form of propaganda against an old form of propaganda. In reality Jesus was a very minor political figure, in a very small rural district who was the rightful king of a bunch of semites whose contribution to and position within international politics and religion at the time was less than marginal. So today we have a minor mediterranean copy cat cult that got lucky and did well but whose "Messiah" was only one of many official "Messiahs" in the Roman World. Big Deal. To Paraphrase a worn out Monty Python jibe: "You claim a fraudulent descent from some daft prick who was stupid enough to get his bollocks stapled to an upright block of wood and you call that a basis for a contemporary European kingship, mate?" To which "in any intelligent modern society" the correct response is "You Can Go and Fuck Yourself, Tosh". Ingratiating themselves into false "Orders", hoping to gain a following and get a plentiful supply of free lunches/blowjobs, these pseudo-royal and ersatz noble hypocrites and liars are arrogant enough to think that they deserve to have their arses continually licked by fawning fools whom furthermore they think that they have the unimpeachable right to insult as well as injure by flogging these ingenuous sycophants revolting, worthless New Age literary detritus at overblown prices into the bargain.

And people fall for the lie and buy the flannel, and what's even more pathetic is that these dumb fools defend the very manipulators who are screwing their heads and their pockets and laughing at them all the way to the Bank and to the numerous little parvenu Mitfordesque soirees they must get invited to by jumped up tradesmen or by rapidly reformed ex-communist bully boys who, now the Iron Curtain has become the Iron Doorstep - over which slither their broken down Zils and Trabants, their paedophile filth and their criminally insane - are themselves engaging in copious amounts of Viennese Rimming - the Osculum Obscene - with some voluntarily abdicated "married in - clapped out" Roman Catholic ex-dynast down in Brussels. How many morons today do you think would be basing their legitimacy on a descent from Jesus if Jesus had been a shoe salesman whom history had consigned to obscurity? The answer to this is, of course, Bugger All.

Take away the Vatican Spin Doctors and all you have is a guy whose descent was mongrel Egyptian - Draconian for sure (that is never mentioned), but whose impact on the world scene was actually nothing during his lifetime.

People have been concentrating on the wrong descent. The power of the Merovingians comes not from some Hick Rabbi who got himself nailed to a tree, but from the Dragon Descent of the Frankish Heerkonige whose ancient ancestors via Antenor and the Trojan Royal House back to the Scythian Ubaid originated from the Black Sea. In comparison to its purer Elven origins, the much hyped Merovingian descent from Jesus is a non sequitur. The other thing about the Merovingians is that, unlike those currently hopeful worthies who now claim Merovingian and/or some kind of miraculous, very rapid, very recent and conveniently instant Catholic "hit me on the shoulder with a tin stick and oil my forehead" Dragon descent and who would love to gain your support today on the back of it and part you from your cash, the Merovingians themselves actually couldn't have given a flying fuck whether you supported them or not. And nor, for that matter, do we. We just want you to wake up. These pseudo-Merovingian and wannabe Dragon dynastic fuckwits who salivate over titles which always carry the prefix "Grand" and who dance to worn out tunes of former royal glory are carrying you to hell in a handbag. They stand for, aspire to and promote elitism, social status and corporate greed. It's jumped up merchant scum like this that contribute significantly to keeping nicely oiled, the cogs in the machinery of your perpetual social and consumer slavery and of our impending collective, global destruction.

Which is it really: "The Real Dragon Order" or THE NEW WORLD ORDER?

It's your call. Have a quick looksie and see which "Court" has got a price tag attached and then you decide. But then the New World Order is just the Old World Order with an IQ of 90, skidmarks on its underpants, more money, and less than no breeding at all. The ideal environment for these kinds of tradesmen.

Nicholas De Vere

(From the original website of dragoncourt.org ... now no longer online)

Attention all Draconians!

The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court is the ancient Household Court and Order of the senior Angevin descendants of the Imperial and Royal House of Vere of Caledonia, Anjou and Lorraine, and the physical embodiment of the Sovereign Princedom of Drakenberg; which is recognised under European Law as a sovereign ethnic racial group; the principle nation state of the Draconian peoples:

Furthermore, the royal and ambassadorial nature of the title of the Prince of Drakenberg (Princeps Draconis) is recognised under the 'Official Observations' of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Government of its state of origin within the European Union. Documents pertaining to its sovereign status are held in government archives. The right of fons honorum has been tested and ratified under law and the sovereign rights of Drakenberg as an incorporeal sovereign state have been registered and included as part of this process. For its part however, The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court is not affiliated with or subservient to - and does not recognise - any royal house established by the Roman Catholic Church or any of its schismatic Christian denominations, or any other contemporary corporate, academic political, social, religious or quasi-mystical elites.

The Dragon Court is publishing on this website individual aspects of its history, along with references to the classical folklore and mythic customs of Europe and Asia which are directly linked to the Dragon tradition. Meanwhile, we trust that visitors to this site will find the given details sufficient to cement the facts pertaining to the Court, facts which positively disassociate this establishment from other Orders such as those of the Dragon Overthrown and the Golden Dragon with which it has erroneously been associated in some propagandist literature.

The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court is a closed fraternity of individuals, fronted by those who trace their ancestry and affiliations back to the ancient Grail and Dragon families. It is not in any way a joining club or membership subscription society. Neither is it a commercial, religious, political or charitable institution.

'Mr' Laurence Gardner, author of 'Bloodline of the Holy Grail' and 'Genesis of the Grail Kings' resigned from the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court - "by mutual agreement" - following the dismissal of his business partner, Mr. Adrian Wagner, who was asked to leave the Dragon Court before 12th November 1999. In consequence of which and despite the material featured on the Nexus website and on the website of some other individual named David Icke, Mr Laurence Gardner is NOT the Chancellor of The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and nor was he ever Head of the organisation as this Icke person states.

The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court is not a platform for the airing of vacuous New Age garbage and nor is it intended for use as a tool to promote a personality cult, a cottage industry or a money making corporation.

Furthermore, material used by Mr. Laurence Gardner came, in its purest form, from Nicholas de Vere whose archival and research material were used extensively in Mr. Gardner's book 'Genesis of the Grail Kings', for which Nicholas de Vere was credited. However, in the bulk of Mr. Gardner's Nexus lectures on 'Starfire', 'The Donation of Constantine', 'The Albigensian Blood', 'The Elven origins of The Imperial and Royal House of Vere' and their connexion with 'The Realm of the Ring Lords' (and the 'Ring Lords' material itself and in its entirety), all of which also appear on Mr. Gardner's 'Ring Lords' website, Nicholas de Vere was NOT credited, but has and asserts the moral right to be named as the copyright holder. The Realm of the Ring Lords archival and research material and the impetus to publish it originated from Nicholas de Vere, not Mr. Gardner. Although having been asked to do so, none of these individuals have seen fit to do the author of these works the courtesy of making the proper credits or corrections in their advertising or their material and it is therefore necessary to do this ourselves. The original manuscript copies of this material, written and distributed between 1993 and 1997, are in the keeping of the copyright holder's lawyers.

Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg

NOTICE

By Sir Laurence Gardner

 "When publishing my book 'Genesis of the Grail Kings' early in 1999, I asked a certain Nicholas de Vere to write the Foreword to that work on the understanding that he was Magister Templi of the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court in Britain by virtue of a warrant issued by the ducal House of Habsburg-Tuscany.

    It subsequently came to my attention, however, that this was not the case and I learned that Nicholas de Vere's said warrant was in no way valid since the House of Habsburg-Tuscany was not at liberty, under any legal right or consideration, to issue such a document.

    On behalf of the Grand Protectorate of The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and Order, I therefore now confirm that, despite his Internet protestations and various messages to all and sundry, Nicholas de Vere is not recognized in any capacity as being attached in any manner, formally or informally, to the Hungarian establishment of Sarkany Rend. Neither is he attached or affiliated to any of its priories in other lands. His name is not recorded in the Court's registration at the High Court of Budapest, nor in any other authentic document of the Court in Britain or any other country.

    In November 1999 I was required to publicly sever my association with Nicholas de Vere, while still acknowledging the help he had afforded me with certain matters of research and reimbursing him for these services. In that same month MediaQuest, who had hosted de Vere's Web, was similarly obliged to cease all further professional association, terminating the site. At that same time, the Webmaster, Sir Adrian Wagner (Knight of the Swan by grant and ratification of the Royal House of Stewart) duly resigned from all and any de Vere affiliation.

    As detailed within the main body of this current site, the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court ceremony held at the Mansion House, York, on 21 March 2000 (with Chev. Dr. Gyorgy von varhegyi Lehr, Count of Oberberg, Chancellor of the Court, in attendance) established the truth of the matter once and for all in Britain. Also present, among various officers of the Court and Order, were Chev. Dr. Andrew von Zsigmond, Baron de Lemheny, of the Hungarian Consulate, Grand Prior of the Order in Britain, and HRH Prince Michael of Albany, the Order's Protector in the English speaking world. The City of York was formally represented by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, while the Sheriff of York attended to represent HM Queen Elizabeth II."

    Sir Laurence Gardner
    July 2000