X.72
L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois
Du ciel viendra un grand Roy deffraieur
Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois.
Avant apres Mars regner par bon heur.
Line 2 - "défrayer"
Line 3 - "Angoumois"
Verse translation
1999 and seven months to the fore,
Heaven sent, shall come just one King to pay
The noble of Angoumois again to restore,
Ere, after March shall reign by fortune's say.
Based on the official return of Angoumois, as a feudal vassal subject to
King Philip II of France, in July 1199, after Eleanor of Aquitaine
decided to pay homage to him, (rather than to her son John Lackland, the
newly appointed King of England), for the lands she had inherited from
her father, which then allowed Philip II to consolidate France into one
royal domain. This decision was greatly influenced by the death, a few
months earlier, of her favourite son, Richard the Lionheart (Duke of
Aquitaine and King of England), after he was struck down by a crossbow
bolt from out of the blue on 26 March 1199. He died while besieging the
castle of Châlus attempting to subdue the Viscount of Limoges who had
taken a stand for the King of France, supported by the Viscount of
Angouleme. Evidently, in order to project the past into the future,
Nostradamus has simply transposed the year of the event in the first
line from 1199 to 1999. A failed prophecy.
Merlin the Magician
"As it once was so shall it be again, world without end"
[TEOTW: 27, Shelter from the Storm, 346]
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