WORD OF THE AUTHOR
Dear reader,
The Essay that follows is based on my - Essai sur l´origine des patronymes BAILLEUL-BELLE-BELS et variantes - first written in French in 1986 and first published in 1996.
Since then, although important amendments have been made to the original text, no major changes were done as far as the essence of the Essay is concerned. This essence remains:
- The Bels-Belle-Balliol (and patronymic variations) belong to one and the same lineage which has its origin in Flanders (Belgium).
- The Balliols of Scotland descend from the Balliols of Flanders and not from Normandy.
Furthermore, significant discoveries were made, indicating clearly that the Bels and Belle, along with their patronymic variations, were involved in the ephemeral and enigmatic history of the southern regions of France and northern Spain. From the Pyrenees to Albi, from Montségur to Perillos, from Dagobert II to the "reconquista" and the counts of Barcelona, from the Templars to the Cathars, from the hypocenter of "Perillos" to its epicenter of "Rennes-le-Château," all these regions and times warrant the utmost attention, as they hold the potential to rewrite the entire history of Western Europe and Christianity.
Whereas other significant European lineages fade away in the mist of time, these two lineages reappear far beyond the temporal barriers established by historians, as they appear in the Capetians and Merovingians times and may be traced back to Roman schools and administrations.
These new discoveries and some assertions are developed and constitute, also, the core of this Essay. In this Essay, I will give the reader quite another approach than the classical historical versions still considered as true.
At first glance, these versions seem to hold the road. Unfortunately, they do not, and they can only subsist thanks to the lack of serious investigation and courage to face the non-movere attitudes resulting from a comprehensible, but not acceptable, resistance to change!
Civil and religious authorities have never looked kindly on anyone questioning them or challenging their views. The slogan is well known: “Keep them poor”, said the politicians, “we'll keep them ignorant”, said the religions.
More details about this will follow in the corpus of the text.
I hope that positive criticism will emerge from the reader’s perspicacity. If the questions we ask ourselves are the motor of science, so is criticism the motor for further investigations and research.
As far as the origin of the Bels-Belle-Balliol Dynasty is concerned, the reader should be warned before consulting the classical encyclopaedias and literature on the subject. They all carry data issued from wrong assertions made by the 18th century French writer Mr. Vosgier. Assertions that were subsequently and blindly taken over by other French writers such as Mr. Blanchard and Mr. René de Belleval (1866).
So were these three writers considered as "the" references for the Balliol History! Their never-questioned assertions landed straight into the world’s biggest and most serious Encyclopaedias, such as the “Grande Encyclopedie Universelle Larousse” and the “Encyclopedia Britannica”.
An Italian encyclopedia has the following text:
“Baliol (Balliol). Famiglia feudale normanna stabilitasi in Inghilterra, all'epoca di Guglielmo il Conquistatore (1066). Insediatisi sul confine tra Scozia e Inghilterra, i - parteciparono alle lotte tra i due paesi, e acquistarono pretese alla Corona di Scozia, che fu tenuta tra il 1292 e il 1296. Tra gli ultimi membri della famiglia, estintasi nel sec. XIV, Edward (m. 1367) consegnò la Scozia al re Edoardo III d'Inghilterra.” Source: Nuovissima Enciclopedia Universale Curcio.
Only Mr Francis Bailey had the correct view of what happened in those remote times. Unfortunately, by the time his work was published (Ed. Spottiswoode. London 1881), all leading encyclopaedic works and literature had already published Mr. Vosgier’s assertions. Mr. Bailey’s study came simply too late!
To have an overall view of the History of our Bels-Belle-Balliol Dynasty and the lineages that composes it (Belles, Beyls, Bayls, Bellis, Bell, Bailleul, Bailey, etc.), I strongly suggest the reader to consult the following works:
- The Bailleuls of Flanders, written by Mr. Francis Bailey. Anno 1881.
- Robert Bell and his Early Virginia Colony Descendants (2011), Bell Roots (2012) and One Hundred & Twenty-Five Bell Families Contribution to History (2016), written by Mr James Elton Bell, Knight Ordinis Balliolensis, FSA Scot and Ms. Frances Jean Bell. Anno 2011.
- The Balliol Dynasty, written by Prof. Dr Amanda Beam. Anno 2008. AHRC Project “The Paradox of Medieval Scotland (PoMS)”. Dept. History. University of Glasgow.
Maybe this Essay will, together with plenty of others, slowly but surely allow us to better comprehend that hinge period of our common history.
This study is also to be used as a historical manual for our future Knights. It will give them sufficient historical data to have a good overview of happenings involving members of the several Lineages that constitute our Dynasty.
The Essay time span ranges from the IIIth century, for the Bels lineage, until the XVIIth century, the time when the Essay stops its enumeration of facts and description of events, in order to respect the privacy of individuals.
There are however only a few exceptions and they all concern people who had or still have a public life, such as:
- The late Princess of Réthy, Lady Liliane Baels. Born on 28 November 1916, she became the second wife of Leopold III von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha (1901-1983), King of the Belgians.
- George Washington (1732-1799), the first president of the United States, whose mother was Marie Ball (1708-1789), of Flanders, through the Middle Age Scotland.
- Or other public figures such as Roland Belz, who bought the Castle Frankenberg, for 10.000.000 Euros, etc.
- Some facts about the author's direct lineage.
- Facts demonstrating the relationship between the Ordo Balliolensis (OB, the Traditional Order of Chivalry of the Bels-Belle-Balliol dynasty) and the Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani (OSMTH Porto - International), better known as the Knights Templar Order, and some other connections, to clarify certain trans-generational interactions.
- A few characters worth mentioning from a historical point of view, such as:
- Bels Henry, born in Horpmaal on 11.04.1791, son of Bels Henri (1745-1819) and Fastré Anne (1750-1814). He Married 23/04/1818 at Horpmaal to Sibille Driesen (1791-1867). Henry incorporated the 108th Régiment d'Infanterie de Ligne, of the Napoleonic army corps, on the 18/09/1812 till the 12/03/1813. Source: Willy Bels from Leopoldsburg (Belgium).
- An artist, a soldier named Bels, is the author of this humorous cartoon from either the 7th (Wednesday) or 9th (Friday) January 1914, depicting a conversation between two soldiers in the Flanders trenches on a cold winter's day (-15* CC) during the First World War. Source: Bels Archives.
Based on the shape of the helmets, it can be inferred that the soldiers were French and not Belgian. Their helmets were identical, but the Belgians had, up front, since November 1915, the face of a Lion. “Les Capotes”, the long, double-breasted greatcoats with large lapels were typical of French infantry uniforms, especially in winter conditions. The few details in this drawing strongly suggest they are French soldiers.
The French text, translated into English, reads as follows:
“Well, how's it going with the Boche?”
"There is a slight chill between us”.
The scene happened in the winter. The month, under the “Bels” signature, seems to be “x January 14”. Since there are never such low temperatures as -15*CC in Flanders in November nor in March, the depicted scene must have been amid the winter. This is why I think the deciphering of the month must be read as “January”.
I researched the Climatological data for this period:
1. The winter of 1914-1915 was mild and wet, leading to extremely muddy conditions in the trenches. Later in the season, temperatures dropped, and light frost became common. The average temperatures were between 0°C to 7°C, with some colder periods.
2. The winter of 1915-1916 was one of the coldest winters of the war. Heavy snowfall and frozen ground made trench warfare even more brutal. The average temperatures ranged from -9°C to 0°C.
3. The winter of 1916-1917 was an extremely cold and long winter, one of the coldest in decades. Snow and ice covered much of the front, and trenches became frozen solid. The average temperatures ranged from -15°C to -2°C.
4. The winter of 1917-1918 was slightly milder winter than 1916-17, but still cold. Trench conditions remained difficult with frost and mud cycles. The average temperatures ranged from -4°C to 4°C.
The serious political instability in Europe, which was to lead to the most terrible war ever fought - and a world war at that - culminated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine) and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo; At that time, a condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Four months later, the world was at war.
Questions:
- What were these guys hanging around in trenches, in January 1914, some 4 months before the assassination of Sarajevo, and 8 months before the first World War really started in Flanders's plains?
- How come they're pictured wearing French “Adrian” helmets as early as January 1914, even though they weren't invented by the French military officer and engineer General August-Louis Adrian until 1915?
- Why is it mentionning an extremely low temperature for Belgium, that may only have occurred during the winter of 1916-1917 but not 1914?
Seen these serious inconsistencies in the cartoon, I ask myself the question to know if this cartoon was contemporaneous of the life in the trenches or if it was drawn later… Could it be a fake?
This is the way I handle historical data in this Essay. I continually question the validity of some interpretations made by historians, bearing in mind that only facts must lead to hypothesis and theories, not the other way around.
My grandfather's idea to write "one" book that would contain all our data, normally spread in "thousand" books, turned out as an objective that is impossible to achieve. So huge is the volume of information available. In my Essay, I did not copy, except for very few exceptions, historical data that appeared in other major Dynastic Historical Works such as:
- One Hundred & Twenty-Five Bell Families.
- Bell Roots, Our Early History, 825-1800.
- Sir Robert Bell and His Early Virginia Colony Descendants.
by our Dynast James Elton Bell, Knight Ordinis Balliolensis, FSA Scot
- The Bailleuls of Flanders and Willow Hall,
by our Dynast Francis Bayley.
- The Falaise Roll.
by Jackson Crisapin & Leonce Macary.
Some chapters, included in this Essay, were the writings of historians and dynasts. Their references are given at the end of their text after the word “Source:”
IMPORTANT NOTES TO THE READER
Please be aware that the people quoted under “Acknowledgment” in this Essay do not imply ipso facto that they share my views on events, happenings, thesis, and hypothesis I propose and/or put forward. On some very sensitive matters, my views and opinions engage only myself!
Some parts of this Essay follow a rather conventional survey, other constitute a quite unconventional approach to History. Theoretical historians often use this method when trying to elucidate the events from which concrete data, such as time and space, are missing or lost forever.
This sometimes-criticised unconventional “puzzling” method has already paid off many times and allowed scientists to make astonishing discoveries. After all, it has always been very difficult to reconstruct the course of ancient events except in terms of speculative theories.
Questions will unavoidably arise as to why, in such an Essay, whose aim is to provide as objective a study as possible of the history of our dynasty, I develop themes such as the mysterious happenings surrounding the small French village of Rennes-le-Château, Mary Magdalene, the Cathars, the Templar Knights, and the implication of the Roman Catholic Church in all of them?
At first glance, these themes may appear to be quite out of place. The more that the whole Rennes-le-Château affair is often presented as nothing more than a huge hoax. However, this apparent out of place will very quickly disappear when we realize that it is linked to events that concern directly our Dynastic History. Three examples:
- The events concerning the arrest of the last Languedoc Cathar Perfect, William Bélibaste (anno 1321), are mentioned in this essay because the direct actor behind this ignominious arrest was Mr Arnaud Sicre, a Dynast (someone from our Dynasty, from the Late Latin “dynastes”).
The murdering of the Dynast’s mother Sybille Baille (also Bayle) and his son Pons, by the Roman Catholic Church, had to be mentioned also, whatever our position is regarding this Church!
- The ruins of our estates in Belcastel-et-Buc and Villardebelle (Corbières - South of France), are “much too close” to the Châteaux of Villerouge-Termenès, Durfort, Blanchefort, Peyrepertuse and the mysterious “Rennes-le-Château”, to be the simple result of pure coincidences.
- The two mysterious paintings in our former hospital called “the Belle Almshouse”, in Ypres (Flanders, anno 1272) are not the product of fertile imagination or clever invention. They are physically hanging there on the walls since the XVIth century. What they show us are, at first glance, some flagrant inconsistencies (atypical background for Flanders countryside, typical Corbières Rocky Mountains, what resembles impressively the Castle of Peyrepertuse, the mother and child being neither Mary nor Jesus, intentional absence of painters’ identification, etc.). However, with increased scrutiny, we recognise in these apparent inconsistencies, the presence of an “internal coherence”, a quite unusual, but permanent “pattern”, through time and space, present in plenty of other pieces of art connected with the Rennes-le-Château mystery!
This more than usual “internal coherence” will automatically disarm the probability of the “pure chance” factor making it more than improbable to account for so many Europe-wide occurrences.
There is absolutely no doubt that we are here in the presence of a precise, skilful, and intelligent force at work behind the curtains of History, to transmit secret messages into the minds of generations to come, able to understand them.
As said earlier, some may consider the whole Rennes-le-Château (RLC) affair as a gigantic hoax, made up by the alleged falsifier trio: Plantard, de Chérisey and de Sède. This may probably be true for some of the treasures or mysteries pretended to have been discovered, although in the opaque backstage of this whole affair, confessed to have been a forgery (to avoid prosecution), could lie unpublished and authentic information.
But then, how to explain the interest and involvement of so many of Europe's great families if the whole affair was nothing but a farce? What were the Imperial lines of the Habsburgs, the royal line of the Bourbons and the Vatican interested in? What prompted the Pope to personally intervene and reverse the decision of Mgr. de Beauséjour, the Bishop of Carcassonne, to suspend the priest Béranger Saunière from his ecclesiastical duties?
It would be remiss of us not to inquire about Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's finance superintendent, who amassed immense wealth following a peculiar correspondence from his brother Louis Fouquet and the painter Nicolas Poussin, informing him of an "immeasurable fortune, which will not be equaled on earth" and "possible that no one else will ever rediscover it in the centuries to come."
We know that Louis XIV, after visiting Nicolas Fouquet's estate at Vaux-le-Vicomte, had his minister arrested and imprisoned. But how can we not become suspicious after learning that the king ordered the confiscation of his private correspondence, which he combed through with a fine-tooth comb, that he decorated his bedroom with Nicolas Poussin's painting “The Shepherds of Arcadia”, and that he dispatched his Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert to Rennes-le-Château.
The result: Louis XIV, too, suddenly became immensely wealthy, allowing him to indulge his “Folie des grandeurs”, revealed not only by the extraordinary constructions of Versailles, but also by his financial donations to the four corners of France for the refurbishment of cathedrals, churches, abbeys, museums and so on. Where did this colossal fortune come from? From a farce?
However, nobody can dismiss the fact that the breathtaking anomalies everyone can see in the small Mary Magdalene church, its surroundings, and the mysterious activities of the Abbé Bérenger Saunière, predated the trio by at least 70 years!
The controversial Coded Messages, like the one carved on the Epitaph of the Marquise d´Hautpoul, Marie de Nègre d´Ables, even predated the trio by some 180 years! How can one seriously pretend that these men invented a coded message story when elements the code itself has been carved into a tombstone at the time they were not even born? Six generations before theirs!
To try to explain (in all modesty) the paths I followed (as did some other freelance historians) to discover the roots of some strange behaviours, unorthodox actions, and mysterious events, I was obliged to go sometimes deeply into details. The importance of some elements and some actors such as the Western Europe Parallel History, the Apocrypha, the Roman Catholic Church, and some Jewish families, is so tremendous that without mentioning them (summarised as much as possible) we would miss the key elements needed to understand a gigantic puzzle set over two thousand years.
Please consider that all apparent unorthodox developments in this Essay are based upon very serious historical considerations. They are not the product of an untamed fertile imagination, pure fantasy, or mental wandering. They are neither ego-driven assertions to make one more interesting than another! They are neither of the domain of sensational, just to entertain, nor money motivated because I sincerely doubt if, in one decade, 10 people will ever read this Essay!
Thus, serious historical studies oblige us to note that, from the low to the high Middle Ages, the aristocratic, noble, and patriarchal families (Leudes) maintained between them extremely close links, that they were dynastic (of ascendancy, marriage, succession), feudal, commercial, financial or security.
European politics was only a matter of big family interactions in the Middle Ages! These very strong families’ bonds rested on a secular social system that lasted until the end of the Second World War. In Western Europe, the so-called “modern age”, which witnessed the upcoming of the socialist system, played an important part in the strong intention to level out the upcoming “modern society”.
Slowly but surely, the thousand years old close dynastic links and interactions were suppressed and started to decline. Family links were forgotten and the nobility system itself, although still existing in a few countries of Western Europe, started to show signs of fraying at the edges. Today its influence, on society, is reduced to almost nothing. It will be only a matter of a few decades of years to see its definitive collapse.
On July 19, 1946, Robert IV Valère Bels fs. Valérius Bels, went to the town hall of Leers-Nord (on the Belgian - French border) to officially declare the birth of his first son, whom he wished to name Robert Adelsohn Bels.
The municipal secretary M. Jean Aubar (the spelling is unclear) accepts the name "Adelson" but refuses, with the support of the mayor Mr. Edmond Bourgeliou and the village warden Mathieu Vossen, the name "Adelsohn" because of its German consonance "Adel-Sohn", in English "Son of a noble". This would have been, without the addition of a title of nobility, a discreet little window opening on a prestigious past.
These people had, due to the 4 years of Nazi dictatorial occupation of Belgium, become viscerally anti-German. Mr. Mathieu Vossen (*1889 +1967), veteran of the 1914-1918 war, lived until his death with a war bullet in his body.
The “pseudo-educated” trio could no longer distinguish between a "German" and a "Nazi"! The first name of Robert IV Valère Bels' second son, who was to be named "Rüdiger", was refused for the same reason. The less Germanic name "Rudi" was accepted.
These people’s ignorance prevented them from knowing that even the personal name “Robert” is Frankish. It comes from “Hrodberht” (hruod = glory + berht = bright). The same for the first name “Rüdiger” which comes (hruod = glory + ger = spear). The name became famous through the Nibelungen saga.
In the light of what has been said, we now better realize that the presence of the Knight Hrvotland Bels, a lawman who signed as witness the Treaty of Verdun (Yutz, in anno 843), which was a purely “private” Carolingians´ Dynastic matter, was not just pure chance. Instead, it must be seen as the logical outcome of current procedures “in place”, for centuries, among these big families. This is no longer speculation, but fact! Any historian of this period will acquiesce!
In short: If the Bels Knight had such a high position (Office holder also called baronobis, see end of Chapter VIII) at the court of the Carolingians, we are practically certain that his father and grandfather did also have such a position or a similar one!
His name “Hrvotland”, original form of “Roland” indicates us that he was more than a common. He was not a serf because he possessed land. His status was probably a scribe, and advisor, and/or lawman. This conferred him an important place in the king's court. His first name means "Hrvo = glory + Land". It indicates very clearly a person owning land or a domain. He was, therefore, a " Freiherr", or a "Baron" at birth. He was a feudal owner.
Since he received his Christian name "Hrvotland" from his father, at his birth, it is obvious that he inherited all from him. This is a logical continuation of the family tradition of the Leudes and Vassis. We see from this example, taken on the fly, how these hereditary lineages of various administrative functions (teachers, notaries, lawyers, scribes, etc.), went back in time without changes in their socio-cultural status.
Modern historians of international renown, such as the German historian and author Dr. Prof. Timothy Reuter (1947-2011), go even further. They proved that these transitions from one ruling family (dynasty) to another, were not isolated events, but rather the logical result of the perennial status and education of a certain class of society, called "Leudes"!
Therefore, do they claim that if the Bels Lineage were such Office holders under the Carolingians rulers (anno 843) and in northern Spain (Vacarisses anno 1014), they must have been Office holders (baronobis) under the Merovingians as well. These functions were hereditary as were the trades of the past such as masons, bakers, weavers, etc.
Another brilliant historian and world specialist on the history of the Merovingians, the Knight Dr. Enrico Paust Freiherr von Lipstadt, of the German Friedrich-Schiller-Universität of Jena (D), breaks the out-posted time barrier when he asserts that the Bels Lineage must have occupied these functions already as Roman public officers. For more developments on this subject, read Chapter XIII.
Please approach the apparent unorthodox developments, you will encounter in the Essay, with a free and open mind, from different perspectives, but above all, with an attitude liberated from any educational or dogmatic conditioning. Turn away from most classical and traditional teachings, ideologies, and fixed pseudo-certainties. They only tell you what some manipulative and conspiratorial political and religious “authorities”, via the media, want you to believe and to know, for whatever purposes!
History much more than any other science has been and still is the subject of incredible manipulations and falsifications. We are daily, despite us, the “credulous” victims of gigantic, perfectly orchestrated, and worldwide conspiracies! The machinery to deaden our minds and enslave the human race is so perfectly tuned that most of us do not even suspect it to be in place!
However, many daily happenings should challenge us because of their high factor (index) of strangeness, inconsistencies, and suspicions. By posing the right question, the right answer will appear! As I wrote somewhere in the Essay, concerning the Rennes-le-Château affair:
“...As there is no smoke without fire, we must ask the right questions to receive the right answers! Who is lying to whom? Who wants to inform indirectly the public about a gigantic manipulation of historical events and who wants, at all costs, to prevent the spread of this information? To whom would profit or damage the publication of the information... ?”.
I am not an “active” adept of the Worldwide Conspiracy Movements, which sees the shadow of State, Church, and some Jewish families’ manipulations in everything that happens. However, we all must recognise that many “happenings” give us some cause for serious concern and compel us to interrogate ourselves. They are much more than just coincidences!
In those times, some people knew exactly what was going on - and left, for the prosperity, secret messages in the form of a transposition telling us the real stories. In this case, the hidden message is: “Les rois fait néants” or “The kings reduced to silence”! However, the message addressed to the common was: “Les rois fainéants” or “The lazy kings” A clever play on words that says a lot about the reality of events and that is aimed at those who can understand.
Another very significant play of words, in French, is: “Pas dedans” for “Pas de dents” that stands for “not in” and “no teeth”. Or the sentence “Je suis Robert” which can mean “I am Robert”, if the verb is “to be”, or “I follow Robert”, if the verb is “to follow”.
This kind of transposition is feasible in English as well: “I will come with the night” could be understood as “I will come with the knight”. Only a few languages lend themselves wonderfully to these turns of phrase and wordplay. However, only a few of them were used to encode ultra-secret events affecting the very foundations of Western civilization. Only France has had to face these imperatives!
These messages inform us indirectly of the conspiracy set up by the Church and the Mayors of the Palaces, to get rid of the Merovingian dynasty, which was no longer interested in expanding its territories.
This was the same constellation of the events, which took place almost 700 years later, with the conspiracy of the Church and the King of France against the Templars. We find the same kind of transposition in the church of Rennes-le-Château where the text “Par ce signe tu vaincras” has been encoded into “Par ce signe tu (le) vaincras”. We will come back to this later.
We should become much more alert and pay much more attention to what happens around us. Only then will we be able to discern some abnormalities and allow them to become the subjects of our preoccupations and speculations! We must develop a questioning if not an investigative attitude if we do not want to end like a bunch of caws looking at a rolling train without understanding what they see!
I studied decades of years, apocryphal texts. These over 50.000 mysterious documents were all discovered, here and there, by a mere stroke of fortune, in the Mediterranean region and in the Middle East’s most deserted and remote places. They all report events that happened in the very early times of Christianity. In the light of their deciphering, we must be very assertive: the Roman Catholic Church has outrageously and purposely manipulated the whole History of Christianity with the complicity of the rulers in place in those times.
Didn't they include four gospels in the Bible when there were more than fifty, held in great secrecy in their archives? What could be so dangerous for Roman Catholic dogma that they had to resort to such historical manipulations?
Since Christianity is mainly the teaching of precepts created by the follower Paul, we should rather call it “Paulinism”. The German historian, philologist and philosopher Wilhelm Nestle (1865-1959), wrote, “Christianity is the religion founded by Paul, it replaced Christ’s Gospel with a Gospel about Christ”.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST
I personally financed this Essay for more than 35 years and did not receive, in all this time, a single financial aid, from anyone or any institution whatsoever, which could have helped me to finance such expensive research, necessitating ten thousand Euros to cover countless travels, journeys and research costs, across Western Europe. Not even a small contribution came from the numerous different lineages and families that constitute our Dynasty to whom this Essay is, finally, dedicated!
I must admit, however, that I never asked for someone’s financial help. Therefore, could one thing explain another!
To realise this enormous study, I had to live modestly refraining from very educative sojourns on the four corners of the world. Noblesse obliges! I also imposed on my family some temporal constraints and financial restrictions that should not have been implemented if this study had never occurred or if it had been partially sponsored. Therefore, I am very grateful to my family members for having, à contrecoeur, permitted me to achieve my goal.
Most of my studies were therefore carried out without access to information on the Internet (Wikkipdia, etc.). As I finish this Essay, in February 2025, Artificial Intelligence is becoming operational, explosively increasing the volume of information available, without having to leave home. All the world's knowledge is now within everyone's reach, often delivered in a matter of seconds.
This overall lack of financial support demonstrates ad perfectum the general attitude of virtually all the Members of our prestigious lineages, assembled, as we have seen, in the Bels-Belle-Balliol Dynasty and spread across all the Continents.
However, I do not regret having spent three decades of my life and so much money for one cause. What I profoundly regret, is the flagrant lack of interest of our Dynasts toward their, almost unique, own history and ancestors, which counted among the most influential in Western Europe. All heirs of such prestigious lineages have moral obligations to them, disregarding the time and money they must invest in their research.
The Bels lineage is, as of 2025, at least some 1.965 years old. Of course, this is relatively young compared to the Massimo of Italy, who are at least 2.199 years old! They descend from Maximus (Massimo) Decimus (Decimo) Meridius (Meridio), a Roman general of the legions Felix, commander of the northern army, and a loyal servant of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. The Bels turned out to be, after much historical research, Morinii or Menapii. They were Celtic tribes living in Flanders when the Roman troops arrived in 56 BCE.
In the official documents of the Ordo Balliolensis, under the coat of arms of Mgr. Fra. Robert Adelsohn Bels, the term "multisecular cognationes" is used, in place of the supposed year of the patronymic's first appearance. The purpose of these words is to prevent endless criticism and polemics that are caused by jealousy, envy, or negative attitudes towards the alleged antiquity of the Bels branch in the history of our lineages and in general.
The Time has come now to appeal to the reader’s commiseration for any encountered typing, orthographic, grammatical, phraseological, and historical mistakes. If they would shoot me for them, I would hardly survive the first pages of this Essay! I want to inform you that the grammar of this essay has never been corrected by anyone!
I consider that my multi-linguistic abilities were for me an enormous benediction. Not a benediction from God, but by my own hard work! My studies of foreign languages helped me tremendously with the redaction of this Essay. Most of the very old documents I got in my hands were written in Latin, proto-French, and Archaic German, German, Diets, French and English, all languages I had absolutely no problems understanding. This was for me a gigantic asset.
Non Nobis, Domine, Non Nobis …
Fra. Robert Adelsohn Bels.
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