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--- In rosamond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John Presco" <prosemont@xxxx> wrote:
It is with great honor that I announce my Quest is complete. With
this information my family name will forever be linked with the Grail
Legends. I have found a Grail author that may have lived in
Rougemont, or the Cluney monestary nearby. This is authentic.

Jon

--- In Rosamond-Presco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Presco Jon <prosemont@xxxx>
wrote:

Robert de Boron was the first to identify
Sir Percival's Grail as the Last Supper vessel used by
St. Joseph of
Arimathea to collect the blood of Christ from the
Cross. Robert's 'Didot Perceval' has also been titled
'Prose Parceval. He may have lived in Rougemont
Castle, or the castle that is missing in a trio of
castles making up the smallest canton in France.
Robert was commissioned to write his Authurian tales
by Walter (Gauthier) de Montbeliard, who was a member
of the Ferrette family who were also the Lords of
Rougemont. In a couple of genealogies the names
Frederick and Ulrich are the same.

Here is the latest genealogy that connects the
Rosamond family with the Rougemonts. There is yet to
appear a direct link to my grandfather, Royal
Rosamond, but there are many missing links as the
Rougemonts set out into the American wilderness, and
no doubt did not keep good records, or find a City
Hall nearby to help them do so.

What is truly exciting, is that Robert's Parceval
identifies his father as being Alan de Gros ('The
Fat') who I am all but convinced is kin to William de
Gros the Duke of Albemarle. This family in England is
kin to the Blois, the Dukes of Champagne and Troye who
also hold the title 'Count of Albemarle'. They are kin
to Anne of Kievs, and thus the Kings of France, and
King Stephen of England. They are of course kin to
Mary of Champagne and Fair Rosamond, for the Clifford
family came to own Skipton castle of Albemarle.

It was to the Dutchess of Albemarle that the story of
Pharamond and Rosamonde was dedicated. From the
Dutchess would spring the first British Colony in
America built in South Carolina where the Rougemonts
owned a plantation, the city therein named Albemarle,
later changed to Charlestown.

Here is the Rosamond/Rougemont genealogy that is
proving to be the most exciting genalogy - ever!
Robert has his Parceval taking insturction from the
Holy Ghost that has been title the 'Rosa Mundi'.

John Presco

Copyright 2003

http://www.gbnf.com/genealog3/crain1/html/d0034/I8647.HTM

http://www.eie.gr/ibe/crusades/villehardouin.htm

"ROBERT DE BORON

Despite being famous for his cycle of Arthurian
Romances centred
around the Holy Grail, next to nothing is known about
the Burgundian
known as Robert de Boron. His works reveal that he was
a poet in the
employ of one Gautier, who has been identified as
Gautier de
Montbeliard, the Lord of Montfaucon. Robert presumably
hailed from
Boron - a small village about fifteen miles from
Montbeliard (Mount-of-Balls) where
he appears to have been a cleric of some sort. In
1202, his master is
known to have taken part in the Fourth Crusade from
which he never
returned, dying abroad ten years later. So Robert's
Arthurian trilogy
must have been written in the very late 12th century,
probably after
the Glastonbury monks' 1191 "discovery" of King
Arthur's body, since
Robert's 'Vales of Avalon' would seem to be in
Somerset. He wrote Le
Roman de I'Estoire dou Graal (also called Joseph
d'Arimathie), the
Merlin and, almost certainly, a version of Sir
Percivale's story
usually known as the Didot-Perceval after an early
owner of the
manuscript. They were originally put down in
octosyllabic verse but
only the first named work and 504 lines of the Merlin
survive in this
form. Luckily an anonymous admirer transcribed a prose
version of
each around the 1220s. These were the inspiration for
the later
Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian tales. Robert was the first
to identify
Sir Percivale's Grail as the Last Supper vessel used
by St. Joseph of
Arimathea to collect the blood of Christ from the
Cross.

""And then Perceval came to the king and said: "Sire,
know that
Alain li Gros, who was your son, was my father." And
when the Fisher
King
had heard him he began again to rejoice greatly and
said: "Dear
grandson,
I am very glad for your coming." Thereupon he knelt
and rendered
thanks
to Our Lord, and then he took Perceval by the hand and
led him before
his
vessel and said: "Dear grandson, know that this is the
lance with
which
Longinus struck Jesus Christ on the cross, and this
vessel that is
called
the Grail, know that this is the blood that Joseph
caught from His
wounds
which flowed to the earth, and the reason that we call
it the Grail is
that it is agreeable to all worthy men and to all
those who can stay
in
its fellowship; nor will it in its fellowship permit
sin. And I will
pray
to Our Lord that He may guide me in whatever I can do
for you."
Then Bron knelt before his vessel and said: "Dear Lord
God,
as
truly as this is here Your blessed blood and as You
permitted that it
be
given to me after the death of Joseph and as I have
guarded it from
then
until now, so give me true sign of what I shall do
with it
henceforth."
Then the voice of the Holy Ghost descended and said:
"Bron,
now
know you that the prophecy will be fulfilled that Our
Lord pronounced
to
Joseph. Our Lord commands you that you teach to this
man those sacred
words which He taught to Joseph in the prison when He
gave you the
keeping
of the Grail, and that you place it in his care for
Our Lord. And on
the
third day from today you will leave this world and
will come into the
fellowship of the Apostles." Then the voice ended and
Bron did just
as it
had told him and taught him the sacred words that
Joseph had taught
him,
which I cannot nor ought not tell you. And he taught
him all the
faith of
Our Lord, and how he had seen Him as a little child,
and how he had
seen
Him in the temple, there where He had confuted the
masters, and also
how
the high men of the land of Judea had received Him
with hatred, and
how He
had had a false disciple who had sold Him to the Jews,
and how he had
seen
Him lifted onto the cross, and how his brother-in-law
who had the
name of
Joseph had asked for His body, and how Pilate had
given it to him,
and how
he had removed Him from the cross, and also how when
he had lain Him
upon
the earth he saw His blood run upon the earth, and how
he felt pity of
this, and how he caught it in a vessel, "in this same
one that you see
there, and in its fellowship can no sinner be seen."
And he
recounted all
the life that his good ancestors had led, and Perceval
listened to him
most willingly and soon was filled with the grace of
the Holy Ghost.
And
Bron the old placed the vessel in Perceval's keeping
between his
hands,
and from the vessel there came a melody and a scent so
precious that
it
seemed to them that they might be in Paradise with the
angels.
And Bron who was very old was with Perceval all three
days,
and on
the third day he came before His vessel and there lay
down as on a
cross
and gave thanks to Our Lord. And there he died. And
when he had died
Perceval came there and watched and saw David with his
harp and a
host of
angels with censers where they awaited the soul of
Bron, and they
bore him
into the Heavenly Reward with his Father whom he had
served a long
time.
And Perceval who was a most worthy man stayed there;
and the
enchantments fell and disappeared throughout the
world. And on this
same
day King Arthur was at the Round Table that Merlin had
founded, and
they
heard a crash of such greatness that they were
frightened most
severely by
it, and the stone was reunited which had split beneath
Perceval when
he
had sat in the empty place. Then they marveled greatly
for they
could not
understand what this meant. And then Merlin came to
Blayse and told
him
these things and when Blayse heard this he said:
"Merlin, you told me
that when these works were completed you would put me
in the company
of
the Grail." And Merlin answered him: "Blayse, know
that you will be
there by tomorrow." And then Merlin took Blayse and
bore him to the
dwelling of the rich Fisher King who was named
Perceval, and he
stayed in
the company of the Grail.
When Merlin had completed this he came to the court of
Arthur
at
Carduel. And when Arthur saw him he rejoiced greatly,
and his men
asked
Arthur to inquire of Merlin what the meaning was of
the stone which
had
reunited at the Round Table. And the king said: "I
pray him
earnestly
that he tell me of it if it pleases him." And Merlin
answered: "Arthur,
know that in your time was fulfilled the greatest
prophecy ever made;
for
the Fisher King is cured, and the enchantments have
fallen from the
land
of Britain. And Perceval is lord of the Grail by the
choice of Our
Lord;
and now you can see that he is a very worthy man since
Our Lord has
given
him in keeping His exalted blood to guard; and this is
the reason
that the
stone reunited which had split under him. And also,
Gavain and Keu,
know
that it was Perceval himself who was victorious in the
tourney of the
White Castle and threw you down full length on the
earth. Yet I may
tell
you also that he has taken leave of the doing of
knightly deeds and
will
wish henceforth to hold himself in the grace of his
Creator."
When the king and the nobles heard this they all wept
together and
prayed to Our Lord that He would bring him to a good
end. Then Merlin
took leave of the king and returned to Blayse and to
Perceval and he
had
this all set down in writing.

(The Didot is the last of three Grail stories ascribed
to Robert de
Boron,
the other two being Joseph d'Arimathie and Merlin)

A Strange White Lady


Rougemont and its castles
Detached of the canton Haut-Rhinois de Masevaux after
our misfortunes
of 1870-1871, and incorporated consequently in this
artificial
creation that the Territory of Belfort constitutes,
Rougemont-the-
Castle became, at the same time, the chief town of the
very new
canton, undoubtedly smallest of France, since it
includes/understands
only 4 communes: Leval, Petitefontaine, Romagny and
Rougemont itself.
The mention "the Castle" should normally be in the
plural, since
Rougemont has on its territory the ruins of three
castles:

One rose with the Mount-Ori, toponym which would seem
the German god
Thor, rather than the count Ulrich de Ferette,
undoubtedly lord of
the places in XIIIème century.
The second drew up himself with the Mount-of-Balls.
The third was with the locality Chapelotte, near to
the current
church.
One rose with the Mount-Ori, toponym which would
rather seem to evoke
the German god Thor, that the count Ulrich de
Ferrette, undoubtedly
lord of the places in XIIIe century; the second drew
up himself with
the Mount-of-Balls, and the third tronvait with the
locality
Chapelotte, near to the current church. For a long
time it was
believed - and even the historians let themselves
there take - that
Rougemont had had only two castles: that of in bottom
(Chapelotte)
and that of in top, whose ruins are still seen with
the Mount-of-
Balls and that one called, sometimes wrongly, castle
of the Ori
Mount, as well because it is located close to this
mountain as
because the old texts evoke a castle of this name. In
fact, a third
castle was well with the Mount-Ori, but its ruins
since longtemp
having disappeared, they are our modern
archaeologists, of which
Pierre Walter, of Rougemont, who found the trace of
it. So that when
the historians of formerly and at one time speak to us
about the
castle about in top, it is not known if it is of that
of the Mount-of-
Balls or its neighbor of the Mount-Ori.

At all events, the castle of the bottom, mentioned for
the last time
in 1382, disappeared before 1469, since the treaty
known as of Saint-
Omer, concluded this year between Sigismond from
Austria and Charles
the Bold one, speaks only about the site which it
occupied. The
castle the top, in which one can see that of the
Mount-of-Balls, was
in ruins in 1610; as for its neighbor of the
Mount-Ori, there
undoubtedly did not exist any more, well before this
date. In a
valley, between the two castles of in top, a vault
dedicated to holy
Catherine was. She still remains.

The legend of the White Lady
A legend sticks to the ruins of the Mount-of-Balls. It
could, at the
origin, to apply to the castle of the Mount-Ori, then,
after the
disappearance of this one, to take refuge, to some
extent, in the
vestiges of the Mount-of-Balls. Let us let the
archaeologist of
Golbéry, whose text on this subject seems oldest
(1828), us tell it
naively:

sometimes "a white lady comes to sit down on the
remains of the
tower. A girl being itself one day approached about
it, it requested
it to total one hour indicated, by announcing to him
that a dragon
with the ignited mouth, with the terrible glance,
would spring
towards it of a threatening air; but, added the white
lady, one
should not any conceive any fright, it is necessary to
wait, it is
necessary to take in its mouth even a key, which is
that of a
treasure. After some hesitations, the girl promised
all: she came
indeed. On its side, the dragon did not fail to be
presented. The
fire which left its gosier, and its horrible cries,
frightened so
much this village shy person, whom it did not dare to
continue his
company. Then a plaintive voice exclaimed: "here thus
percent years
still captivates Me". The girl died of terror ".

Odile Gevin-Cassal, who reports this legend nearly one
century
afterwards of Golbéry, adds that, once in possession
of the key,
which is of gold, the girl was to descend a staircase,
to open a door
with the key, to seize the treasure deposited at the
bottom of an
underground, to keep for it these richnesses, except
for a ciborium
which it would give to the priest. As of the first
time that serving
it the mass would say by using this ciborium (or
rather this
chalice), the white lady would be saved. To finish,
the damsel did
not dare to face the dragon with the mouth of fire;
she fled with all
legs, but did not die however of fright. Lastly,
useful precision for
the continuation of the account, but that does not
mention Golbéry,
the attempt was to be made Friday.

The White Lady of the Basque Country
A similar legend meets in the Basque Country. It is
even located,
curiously, in a place called Mount-Ohri. summarized
here by Sébillot,
according to the work of Cerquand: "Legends of the
Basque Country".

"a shepherd saw one day in the cave of the Ohri Mount
a young lady
being combed with a gold comb. It says to him: "If you
want to draw
me on your back from this cave, the day of the Jean
Saint, I will
give you all that you will wish. But, though you can
see on your way,
you will not have to be frightened ". The shepherd
promised to him,
and the day of the Jean Saint, it took the lady on its
back and
prepared to remove it. But seeing animals of all
kinds, a dragon
which launched flames, it was taken of fear, gave up
its burden and
flees. The lady threw a cry terrible and known as:
"Maudit be my
fate! I am condemned to live thousand more years in
this cave!"

That two legends built on the same topic are in almost
synonymous
places, there is what to be questioned. Thus, was the
tradition of
Rougemont transplanted with the Basque Country, or the
reverse? Who
will say it? Let us note, however that the Basque
Country is placed
on the way of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle, place of
pilgrimage
attended formerly, since IXe century, by most of
Europe. And it is
known that pilgrims, soldiers, sailors, merchants,
ménestrels and
other travellers largely contributed to the
propagation of the tales
and the legends.

http://cancoillotte.net.free.fr/Sortir/Rougemont.htm






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From the records of medicine in Quebec, before and after the English
Conquest come several memorable stories The first autopsy on what
was to be Canadian soil is recorded as follows. Jacques Cartier was
ice-bound in 1535, and his sailors sickened with scurvy. After many
deaths Cartier ordered the barber surgeon to cut open the body of
Phillipe Rougemont from Amboise.
He was found to have his heart white but rotten, and more than a
quart of water about it; his liver was indifferent faire, but his
lunges black and mortified, his blood was altogether shrunke about
the heart so that when he was opened, great quantities of rotten
blood issued out from his heart; his milt towards his back was
somewhat perished, rough, as if it had been rubbed against a stone.
The Founding of New France
Throughout the rest of the 16th century the European fishing fleets
continued to make almost annual visits to the eastern shores of
Canada. Chiefly as a sideline of the fishing industry, there
continued an unorganized traffic in furs. At home in Europe new
methods of processing furs were developed and beaver hats in
particular grew very fashionable. Thus new encouragement was given
to the infant fur trade in Canada. In 1598 Troilus de Mesgouez,
marquis de la Roche, set out for Canada armed with a new kind of
authority--a royal monopoly which gave him the exclusive right to
trade in furs.
La Roche established a small colony on Sable Island, an isolated
Atlantic sandbar southeast of Nova Scotia. The settlement, which
proved a dismal failure, was the first of a series of efforts by
France to persuade various leaders to set up colonies in Canada in
return for an official monopoly of the fur trade. Pierre Chauvin in
1600 established a trading post at Tadoussac, on the St. Lawrence
River. This post survived for about three years.
In 1604 the fur monopoly was granted to Pierre du Guast, sieur de
Monts. He led his first colonizing expedition to an island located
near the mouth of the St. Croix River. This in time was to mark the
international boundary between the province of New Brunswick and the
state of Maine. Among his lieutenants was a geographer named Samuel
de Champlain, who promptly carried out a major exploration of the
northeastern coastline of what is now the United States (see
Champlain). In the spring the St. Croix settlement was moved to a
new site across the Bay of Fundy, on the shore of the Annapolis
Basin, an inlet in western Nova Scotia.
Here at Port Royal in 1605 a settlement Champlain described as the
Habitation was established. It was France's most successful colony
to date. The land came to be known as Acadia.
http://www.linksnorth.com/canada-history/thefounding.html
THE BEGINNINGS OF QUEBEC
THE year 1598 was a memorable one in the history of France, for it
witnessed the death of that insatiable schemer, Philip II. of Spain,
supporter of the Guises, and it also saw the end of the long wars of
religion and the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes. The time
seemed to be more propitious than before for commercial enterprises,
and the thoughts of a few bold spirits turned once more to the St.
Lawrence. One of these was the Marquis de la Roche, a Breton
nobleman, who obtained from Henry IV. a commission very similar to
that under which Roberval had sailed. But so little popular interest
was felt in the enterprise that volunteers would not come forward,
and it became necessary to gather recruits from the jails. The usual
scenes of forlorn and squalid tragedy followed. Roche was cast
ashore on the Breton coast in a tempest, and was thrown into a
dungeon by the king's enemy, the Duke de Merc?ur;1 while his
convicts were landed on Sable
THE FRENCH MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES.
The missionary spirit was active in the Catholic Church in France
when the early voyages of exploration were made to the New World,
and side by side with the adventurer in search of gain or fame came
the priest, who held it his highest duty to convert the savage
nations to Christianity. The Jesuits were first in the mission field
of Canada, but they were soon followed by the Recollects, a reformed
branch of the Franciscan order. With Champlain, in May, 1615, came
four of the Gray Friars, and of these Joseph le Caron was appointed
to labor among the Hurons on Georgian Bay. The Recollects invited
the assistance of the Jesuit. These missions were scattered
throughout New France, and quickly penetrated the region of the
Great Lakes. Father Joseph de la Roche d'Aillon founded a mission
among the neutral nations on the Niagara river, and urged the French
to open up communication by way of Lake Ontario; but he spoke too
soon.
The mission of the Hurons, begun in 1615 by the Recollects, was
continued by the Jesuits. The Hurons dwelt in palisaded villages.
Diligently the advocates of the better life labored, and heroically
they endured the hardships and privations of the forest life, yet in
1640 they could claim but 100 Christians out of 16,000 Hurons. New
stations were formed to the southward among the neutrals, and to the
northward among the Algonquin tribes.
1542
Marguerite de La Rocque co-seigneuress of Pointpoint, a close
relative of Sieur de Roberval (1500-1560), accompanied him on this
years voyage to Canada. Shocked by Marguerite taking a lover,
Roberval set her ashore of Ile des Demons in the Saint Lawrence
River with her lover and a servant girl. The young man, the servant
girl and Marguerite's child which was born on the island, died.
Marguerite managed to survive and was rescued two years five month
later by French fisherman. This would represent the first recorded
Country Marriage and the birth of the first European child in New
France (Canada).
Hurtleberry pie is introduced into Newfoundland that is made from
blueberries, blackberries, bilberries and huckleberries. The term
originated about 1450.
April 16: Jean Francois de la Rocque de Roberval (1500-1560)
sailed from La Rochelle, France with three ships and 200 convicts
for America to create a French settlement.
June 8: Jean Francois de la Rocque de Roberval (1500-1560)
encountered Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) at St. John's Newfoundland
and ordered Cartier to return to Canada. Cartier refused this
direct order from his superior. Jacques Cartier snuck off in the
night, fully aware that Roberval could have him executed (hanged) as
a traitor.
July: Jean Francois de la Rocque de Roberval (1500-1560) reached
Cartier's settlement at Cap Rouge and renamed it France Royal.
Michel Gaillon was hanged for theft at France Royal, alias Cap
Rouge, Quebec. Roberval lost 50 men to scurvy, indicating that
Cartier had not told him of the Indian method to avoid this
ailment. This first attempt to start a colony failed. It is
noteworthy that competent sailors from Europe were well aware of
scurvy and usually gathered the herb alexanders to cure the
ailment. This herb was in use since 1 A.D. by the Romans to prevent
scurvy.
September: Newfoundland sailors (Robert Lefand) reported that
Jacques Cartier and Sieur de Roberval (1500-1560), after one year
with three ships, had accumulated eleven barrels of gold ore and a
quantity of precious stones, rubies and diamonds. This is likely
the source for the current saying: false as a diamond of Canada. The
gold turned out to be pyrite and the diamonds quartz. It is
noteworthy that diamonds would later be discovered in Canada in the
twentieth century.
September 19: Jean Francois de la Rocque de Roberval (1500-1560)
pardoned Aussillon de Sauverterre.
GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L Archives
From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <sallypavia2001@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Genealogy Bits and Pieces] Prime Minister Announces Canada
History Centre by E B Lapointe
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:36:53 -0700
On 26 May, 2003, the Honourable Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of
Canada,
announced the creation of the Canada History Centre.

The centre?which will be located in the former Union Railway Station
(currently known as the Canadian Conference Centre) in Ottawa, the
country's
capital?has, as its mandate, the preservation of Canada's political
and
civic history.

In a statement read at the opening, the prime minister said
that "Together
Canadians have built a nation that is strong, prosperous and free.
We must
know the builders of our nation to sustain what their mind and
hearts, their
muscles and their blood, have created." He further added, "The Canada
History Centre will bring to life the memories of men and women who,
through
their lives, their vision and their actions, inscribed their names
on the
rolls of our history."

Although physically located in Ottawa, the centre will collect
materials
from the Library and Archives of Canada (no word yet as to if this
will
include the Canadian Genealogy Centre written about in the previous
column
entitled, "Canadian Genealogy Centre Opens on 29 March, 2003"), as
well as
other museums and cultural organizations across the country. Much of
the
material will then be placed in traveling exhibits across the
country, and
is to be featured on the Internet. It will also be an interactive
centre,
taking advantage of the many technological innovations in presenting
Canadian history to the peoples of the world.

Heritage Minister Sheila Copps was also on hand for the
announcement, in
which she said "Canadians want to know more about our country and our
history. Today, through the creation of the centre, the Government
of Canada
is taking a decisive step to respond to this need."

The government will provide funding of approximately $50 million
over the
next five years towards the development of the Canada History Centre
for
renovations of the building and in the collection and dissemination
of the
museum components.

In a spate of what seems to be many announcements made over the past
couple
years by the government concerning cultural subjects, the government
is also
in the process of building a new Canadian War Museum on unused land
at
LeBreton Flats (property located by the Portage Bridge over to the
city of
Gatineau, in the province of Quebec), as well as the Portrait
Gallery of
Canada, which will be located across from Parliament Hill on
Wellington
Street.


http://www.portraits.gc.ca.





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