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Michael Baigent (born Michael Barry Meehan, 27 February 1948 – 17 June 2013) was a New Zealand writer who published a number of popular works questioning traditional perceptions of
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and the
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. He is best known as a co-author of the book ''
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (published as ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unoffic ...
''.


Biography

Baigent was born on 27 February 1948 in
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and spent his childhood in the nearby communities of
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and
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. His father was a devout
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, and he was tutored in Catholic
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from the age of five. After his father left the family when Baigent was eight years old, he went to live with his maternal grandfather, Lewis Baigent and took his surname. His great-grandfather,
Henry Baigent Henry Baigent (1844 – 31 August 1929) was a timber miller, and served as a city councillor and mayor of Nelson, New Zealand. He founded the Nelson firm of H Baigent and Sons Ltd. His funeral was noted as one of the largest that had ever taken ...
served as a Nelson city mayor and had founded a
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firm, H. Baigent and Sons. His secondary schooling was at
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, and then he moved on to the
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,
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, initially intending to study science and continue in the family career of forestry, but switched to studying comparative religion and philosophy. After graduating in 1972, Baigent made extensive travels to different countries, as a freelancer. He did stints as a war-photographer in Laos and as a fashion-photographer in Spain, before arriving at England in 1976. While working at the
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photographic department and doing night shifts at a soft-drinks factory, he met Richard Leigh via a TV producer who was producing a series on the
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. Leigh was to be his frequent co-author across his entire professional life. The two joined
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in unravelling the alleged mystery of
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in
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, the details of which were put forward in ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail''. In 2000, Baigent also earned an MA in the study of
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and Religious Experience at the
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. A
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and a Grand Officer (2005) of the
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, he was an editor of ''
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'' from Spring, 2001 to Summer, 2011 and advocated for a more liberal approach to Freemasonry.


Personal life

Baigent married Jane, an interior designer in 1982 and had two daughters, Isabelle and Tansy, along with two children from her earlier marriage. He died from a
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in
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, East Sussex on 18 June 2013.


Works


The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Published on 18 January 1982, ''
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (published as ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unoffic ...
'' popularised the hypothesis that the true nature of the quest for the
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was that
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and
Mary Magdalene Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to crucifixion of Jesus, his cru ...
had a child together, the first of a bloodline which later married into a Frankish royal dynasty, the
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, and was all tied together by a society known as the
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. The theory that Jesus and Mary were in a carnal (physical) relationship is based on Baigent's interpretation of the Holy Kiss on the mouth (typically between males in early Christian times, thus signifying Mary's emancipation), and ''spiritual marriage'', as given in the
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. It was earlier perpetuated by authors Laurence Gardner and
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.


Popular and critical reception

The book was a bestseller in America. It regained popularity after the publication of
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's ''
The Da Vinci Code ''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel ''Angels & Demons''. ''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Robert Lang ...
'' and sold over six million copies. Historian
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noted the book to be filled with lurid falsehoods and distorted reasoning. Soon enough, the authors had a public clash on a
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...
broadcast with her and the
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. In a scathing review of the book for ''
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'', critic
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wrote: "It is typical of my unregenerable soul that I can only see this as a marvelous theme for a novel." A Kirkus Review described the work as an intriguing phantasmagoria wherein the authors jumped "perilous heights to reach crazy conclusions".
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, reviewing for
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, noted that the work advanced a preposterous hypothesis and made major blunders in its quest to get simple reductive answers from complex questions. In the immediate aftermath of the publication of ''
The Da Vinci Code ''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel ''Angels & Demons''. ''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Robert Lang ...
'', ''
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'' deemed ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' to be among the all-time great works of pop pseudo-history. John J. Doherty, literature librarian at
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, writing in ''King Arthur in Popular Culture'', describes of the work as being "thoroughly debunked by scholars and critics alike". Arthurian scholar
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commented the work to be a "notorious pseudo-history", which advanced its arguments on innuendo and fertile speculations, and would take a book of equal length to dissect and refute it in entirety. In 2005, a
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programme hosted by
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interrogated the main arguments of Brown, Baigent and Leigh, and termed the entire episode to be a hoax. Arnaud de Sède, son of
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, stated categorically that his father and Plantard had made up the existence of a 1,000-year-old
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, and described the story as "piffle". With increasing proliferation and popularity of books, websites and films centered around Baigent's works, many critics regard the work to have been highly influential in the mainstreaming of
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and
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in the public psyche.
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noted the book to "employ the rhetoric of authentic history, but not its method, to present myths as fact".
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writing for
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described the book to have advanced a preposterous idea in stages - first as a wild guess, then as a tentative hypothesis, and lastly as an undeniable fact - but entirely from within a miasma of bogus authenticity.


Dan Brown lawsuit

Some of the ideas presented in Baigent's book ''
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (published as ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unoffic ...
'' were later incorporated in
Dan Brown Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his Thriller (genre), thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels ''Angels & Demons'' (2000), ''The Da Vinci Code'' (2003), ''The Lost Symbol'' (2009), ''In ...
's bestselling American novel ''
The Da Vinci Code ''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel ''Angels & Demons''. ''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Robert Lang ...
''.NZ author claims copyright breach in Da Vinci Code
28 February 2006 In ''The Da Vinci Code'', Dan Brown named the primary antagonist, a British Royal Historian, Knight of the Realm and Grail scholar, Sir Leigh Teabing, KBE, also known as the Teacher, in homage to the authors of ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail''. The name combines Richard Leigh's surname with 'Teabing', an anagram of Baigent. In March 2006, Baigent and Leigh filed a lawsuit in a
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court against Brown's publisher,
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, claiming
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.Kiwi author takes on Dan Brown
1 March 2006 Concurrent with the plagiarism trial, Baigent released a new book, '' The Jesus Papers'', amid criticism that it was just a reworking of themes from ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'', and timed to capitalize on the marketing hype around the release of the movie ''
The Da Vinci Code ''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel ''Angels & Demons''. ''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Robert Lang ...
'', as well as the attention brought by the trial. In the postscript to the book (p. 355), Baigent asserts that the release date had been set by Harper Collins long before. On 7 April 2006, High Court judge Peter Smith rejected the copyright-infringement claim by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. On 28 March 2007, Baigent and Leigh lost their appeal against this decision and were faced with legal bills of about £3 million.


Other

Beginning in 1989, Baigent and Leigh co-authored several books, most prominently ''
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'' (1991), in which they primarily followed the controversial theories of
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concerning the interpretation of the
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. This was discredited by Otto Betz and Rainer Riesner in their book ''Jesus, Qumran and The Vatican: Clarifications'' (1994). In 1999, Baigent and Leigh published ''The Inquisition''. Bernard Hamilton, writing in the ''
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'', described the book as pursuing "a very outdated and misleading account", which ignored all modern development in Inquisition Studies and grossly exaggerated its power and influence, to the extent of being polemical. Writing in the ''
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'' magazine,
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deemed the authors to have penned a misinformed diatribe against Catholicism, with nil interest in "understanding the subtleties and paradoxes in the history of the Inquisition". A review in
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noted it to be mostly drab and uncontroversial, in reiterating facts which were already known for decades but which progressively gave way to hysteria, in its bid to draw a parallel between the ancient institution and current abuse of power by Catholic authorities. Dongwoo Kim, writing in ''
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'', noted the book to not be a significant contribution in the field, in that it was an epitome of '' Whig historiography'' which sought for a binary categorization of the past between good and evil, while locating the Catholic Church as the "antithesis of modernity and liberalism". Baigent himself conceded that none of his theories yielded any positive results: "I would like to think in due course a lot of this material will be proven," he said, "but it's just a hope of mine."DaVinci, other books fit conspiracy fixation
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Bibliography


Sole author

*''From the Omens of Babylon: Astrology and Ancient Mesopotamia'' (1994) . 2nd edition published as ''Astrology in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Science of Omens and the Knowledge of the Heavens'' (2015) *''Ancient Traces: Mysteries in Ancient and Early History'' (1998) *'' The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History'' (2006) *''Racing Toward Armageddon: The Three Great Religions and the Plot to End the World'' (2009)


Co-written with Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

* ''
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (published as ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'' in the United States) is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London as an unoffic ...
'', 1982, UK ** U.S. paperback: ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail'', 1983, Dell. * ''The Messianic Legacy'', 1986


Co-written with Richard Leigh

*'' The Temple and the Lodge'', 1989, *''
The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception ''The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception'' (1991, ) is a book by authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. Rejecting the established scholarly consensus that the Dead Sea scrolls were the work of a marginal Jewish apocalyptic movement, and following ...
'', 1991 *''Secret Germany:
Claus Von Stauffenberg Colonel Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (; 15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer best known for his failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the Wolf's Lair. Despite ...
and the true story of Operation Valkyrie'', 1994 *''The Elixir and the Stone: The Tradition of Magic and Alchemy'', 1997 *''The Inquisition''. 1999


Co-written with other authors

*The Astrological Journal (Winter 1983–84, Vol. 26, No. 1) with Roy Alexander, Fiona Griffiths, Charles Harvey, Suzi Lilley-Harvey, Esme Williams, David Hamblin, and Zach Mathews, 1983 *''Mundane Astrology: Introduction to the Astrology of Nations and Groups'' (co-written with
Nicholas Campion Nicholas Campion (born 4 March 1953) is a British astrologer and historian of astrology and cultural astronomy. He is the author of a number of books and currently pursues an academic career. Career Astrology Campion is a former ''Daily M ...
and Charles Harvey) 1984 (reissued expanded edition, 1992) * ''Freemasonry Today'', (editor) 2001-2011


References


External links


Michael Baigent website


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