* Sinclair ( surname ) ( a contraction of " de Saint-Clair ")

From 1975 Pierre Plantard used the surname Plantard de Saint-Clair, described as an epithet by Jean-Luc Chaumeil, following his interview with Plantard in the magazine l ’ Ère d ’ Aquarius.

His first residence in southern France was in Cabasson, near Le Lavandou, then he settled a short distance away, in the small hamlet of Saint-Clair, where he spent the remainder of his life, leaving only for Italian trips in 1903 and 1908, and for his annual Indépendants exhibits in Paris.

The precursor to these Rosslyn theories is the 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln that introduced the theory of the Jesus bloodline in relation to the Priory of Sion hoax-the main protagonist of which was Pierre Plantard, who for a time adopted the name Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair.

In 1989, when Plantard revised his claims about the Priory of Sion, it was stated in a 1989 issue of Vaincre: " The parchments of Blanche of Castile were in Etienne Plantard's safe-deposit box in London since November 1955 and they did not ' mention ' Dagobert, or a Dagobert II and Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair was never ' a Merovingian pretender ' to the throne of France: His lineage results from the Counts de Rhédae and by the female line of Saint Clair-sur-Epte, which has no relationship with ' Sinclair '.

In January 1910 he returned to Saint-Clair, where he died of the cancer just four days short of his 54th birthday, on 16 May 1910.

* Saint-Clair ( grape ), another name for the French wine grape Saint-Pierre Doré

* Jean de Saint-Clair, alleged sixth Grand Master of the Priory of Sion

* Marie de Saint-Clair, alleged second Grand Master of the Priory of Sion

Plantard also appropriated the false titles of " Comte de Saint-Clair " and " Comte de Rhédæ " to himself.

Image: Mutrécy église 01. JPG | 11th century church of Saint-Clair

His bands included saxophonists Red Holloway, Clifford Scott, Percy France, David " Bubba " Brooks, Clifford Davis, and Floyd " Candy " Johnson ; guitarists Floyd Smith, Billy Butler, Sam Lackey and Pete Mayes ; and singers Edwin Starr, Toni Williams and Betty Saint-Clair.

– Neuilly-sur-Seine: Éd de Saint-Clair ;: diffusion F. Beauval, 1975 ( impr.

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