Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

The Venetians were always known as masters of intrigue; they aided the Turks in the conquest
of Constantinople in 1453, which ended the twelve hundred-year reign of the Emperors of
Byzantium. The Turks were shocked at the rapacity of the Venetians, who carried off much of
the city's legendary art treasures, gold, and jewelry. After they had returned home with their loot,
the Venetians actively disputed control of the Mediterranean with the Turks, fighting them
continually from 1453 to 1718. Venice had now become the headquarters of a ruthless,
social-climbing band of entrepreneurs who purchased titles for themselves, or created them out
of thin air, built splendid mansions, and collected the art treasures of Europe. They financed their
new lifestyle with the enormous sums which they garnered from trade, piracy, and money lending.
From the year 1171, this group became known throughout Europe as "the black nobility," because
they were of Canaanite origin, as contrasted to the fairskinned nobility of the people of Shem.
The black nobility gradually infiltrated the noble families of Europe; today, they constitute most
of the surviving European royalty.
Because of their ruthlessness, the Venetians attained a worldwide reputation as international
arbiters of intrigue, revolution, poisoning, and other forms of assassination. They often conspired
to bankrupt any opponent, and were known to cruelly rape the daughters of anyone in the
oligarchy who dared to oppose them. From Venice, they rapidly spread northward like some
new form of plague, setting up businesses and banking establishments in the northern cities of
Italy. They bought more titles and intermarried with impoverished families of the old nobility.
In Florence, the preeminent family was the de Medicis, who used their wealth to establish an
Accademica which foisted humanism on the world. The de Medici established Florence as the
European center of the black nobility, or Guelphs, as they were now called.
The black nobility also established close ties with the ruling families of England, through the
Savoy and Este families. The Savoys ruled Italy from 1146 to 1945. The Este family ruled Ferrara
from the twelfth century until Italy was united in 1860. Peter, the ninth Count of Savoy, married
his niece, Eleanor, to King Henry III of England, and thereby became his privy councillor. King
Henry granted him large estates, with the title of Earl of Richmond. Peter brought in other
members of the black nobility to marry English noblemen, who included Richard de Burgh and
the Earl of Lincoln. Peter's younger brother, Boniface, was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
Peter died in 1268.
The founders of the European dynasties which lasted into the twentieth century were Rupert,
Count of Nassau, who died in 1124, and Christian, Count of Oldenbourg, who died in 1167.
From Rupert came the Hesse-Darmstadt line, the Hesse-Cassel line, the Dukes of Luxembourg,
the Battenborgs, the Prince of Orange and Nassau, and the Kings of the Netherlands. From
Christian came the Kings of Denmark and Norway, the Schleswig-Holstein line, and the
Hanovers, who became Kings of Great Britain from 1717 to the present time. Also of the black
nobility were the Dukes of Normandy, the Angevins and the Plantagenets, who became the Tudor
and Stuart kings of England, the Saxe-Coburgs, and the Wittelsbachs.
The Hanover line was always deeply involved with Freemasonry. The Hanovers became Kings
of England in 1717. hat same year, the first Grand Lodge was established in England. The Masons
Company had been established in England in 1376 in London and had obtained a grant of arms
from King Henry VIII in 1472; it was incorporated by King Charles n in 1677. But this was guild
masonry, the builders, which was taken over in 1717 by "speculative Masonry," which opened
the groups to members of other professions. A poem appeared in London in 1723, "The
Freemasons; a Hudibrastic Poem," which rhymed: "If history be not ancient fable, Free Masons
came from the Tower of Babel"
A tradition was established that a member of the royal family, or someone with close ties to
Buckingham Palace, would be named Grand Master of the English Lodges. From 1782, the Duke
of Cumberland, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Sussex were grand masters. The Duke of
Sussex was King George II's second son; he married Louise, daughter of the King of Prussia.
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