Mary Magdalene Rosamond de Toxandria

Gauthier de Costes de la Calprenede is said to have written the first
historic romance novel when 1668 he compiled the history of the
Merovingian Frankish Kings in his monumental work ‘Pharamond’. Within
we have an account of Pharamond’s love for Rosemonde, the Cambrian
princess whose tribe, the Cimri, are mentioned in the Bible.

“Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de La Calprenède, (born c. 1610, château of Toulgou, near Sarlat (now Sarlat-la-Canéda), France—died 1663, Grand-Andely), author of sentimental, adventurous, pseudohistorical romances that were immensely popular in 17th-century France.”

“Although confused in construction and unashamedly anachronistic, these novels were enormously popular for their heroic mythification of contemporary courtly ideals. They inspired the plots of many plays, most notably Thomas Corneille’s Timocrate (1656).”

Margaret Starbird and other authors associated with the Holy Blood and Grail topic that suggests Jesus had a daughter, falls in the category of pseudohistorical and mythifications of courtly ideals…