The illegitimate birth of France’s greatest King, Louis XVI September 5, in 1638. A Scandal in the 17th Century
Anne of Austria
Is
Queen Anne, wife of King Louis XIII of France, the lady Nostradamus speaks
of in this quatrain? It would seem more than likely that it is. Possibly
in the numbering of it, 8-32, we could be given a clue as to the date 1632
or so. Anne of Austria, born Dona Ana Maria Mauricia of Spain on September
22, 1601, was the first child of King Phillip III and Margaret of Austria.
Her marriage with the French King Louis XIII proved to be difficult for
her. She was treated badly by an overbearing mother in law, and suffered
great humiliation at the hands of her husband, who was more interested
in his boy toys than he was in his wife.
If Richelieu, who was the government of the day, knew about any affairs,
certainly he would have kept it silent - and there was nothing that Richelieu
did not know about during his years in power in France. He had the most
formidable system of underground spies imaginable. Sometimes he kept silent
about what he found out, sometimes he told, but always, he used it as blackmail
to suit his own agenda.
It is an absolute certainty that this Queen's husband was not the
father of Louis XIV, who was born on September 5, 1638. This being the
case, who was it? Nostradamus isn't saying in this quatrain, but he does
give us a few clues in some of his other ones.
4-93 A serpent will be seen
near the royal bed,
By a lady of the night,
the dogs shall not bark.
Then to be born in France
a Prince so royal,
That the Princes will all
say he came from heaven.
Some
of the verses concerning Louis XIV, France’s great Sun King, are just priceless!
Quatrain 4-93 predicts that France will have an “Illegitimate King”
so to speak. The real father of this great prince is no stranger to the
royal palace - or the royal bed either, as Nostradamus points out here
- “The dogs will not bark”. Everyone will marvel at his conception,
and say he must have come from God.
No other monarch in French history fits this one quite like Louis XIV!
His parents were Louis XIII and Anne of Austria according to the history
books, but even the history books themselves have doubts upon whether in
fact Louis XIII was his real father or not. It was assumed at the time
that Louis XIII had homosexual leanings, because he always surrounded himself
with young men. For 18 long years it was a barren marriage, and there was
no sign of an heir for the French throne.
Then, as a miracle, Anne of Austria became pregnant, and gave birth on
Sept 5, 1638, to the greatest King in French history, Louis XIV. Who was
the real father? Nostradamus does not say, but he hints that it was someone
very close in the royal circle. Note that he gives us two digits of the
date 1639 in the numbering of this quatrain, 4-93.
6-3 The river that proves
the new Celtic heir,
Will be in great discord
with the empire.
The young prince through
the ecclesiastical people,
Will remove the scepter
of the crown of concord.
This
quatrain as well hints at Louis illegitimate birth! The river of Line one
is the Rhine. According to an ancient French legend, they took their newly
born kings and threw them into the Rhine to see if they could swim up it
or not - that being the criteria for which they judged if the infant was
lawfully born or not!
He is also correct in line two of this quatrain,
since the Rhine River was definitely in discord during this period in time.
The 30 years war had opened on May 21 1635, just a few years before Louis
was born. Cardinal Richelieu who ran the French empire almost single-handedly,
had made a commitment to support the Protestant princes in their war with
the Catholic Hapsburg Empire by declaring war on Spain. The condition was,
that France was to receive the left bank of the Rhine River from Breisach
to Strasbourg.
Line 3 indicates that during
his minority the young prince will be guided and ruled by the “Ecclesiastical
people” - this is more true in the case of Louis XIV than any other monarch,
since the Cardinals Richelieu and Mazzarin completely ran the empire during
his minority.
Note in the numbering of this quatrain, 6-3, Nostradamus has given
us two digits of the date this miracle Prince was born, 1635, or if one
were to turn the 6 upside down, it would read 39, yielding the same digits
as the other quatrain gives us.
10-42 The human reign
of an Angelic offspring,
Will cause his realm
to hold in peace and union.
War half captive in
it’s enclosure,
For a long time, he
will cause them to maintain the peace.
Le regne humain
d'Angelique geniture,
Fera son regne paix union
tenir;
Captive guerre demi de
sa cloture,
Longtemps la paix leur
fera maintenir.
In this quatrain, the first
line refers to the “miraculous birth” of Louis XIV. It could also possibly
be construed to be a word play on the English, or Anglican. Is it possible
that this Queen's lover was an Englishman? It was rumored at the French
court of the time that Anne of Austria had an affair going with the Duke
of Buckingham, who was English.
During this King's reign,
says Nostradamus, he will keep the peace for a long time - which indeed
he did. In the original French, the last line reads Longtemps la paix leur
fera maintenir. The word maintenir is rather a sly play on the name of
Louis’ mistress at this time, Madame Maintenon.