On this day, I John Presco, claim all lands owned in the Americas, by Maximilian von Habsburg, and the general executed by his side, General Tomas Mejia. We see these two loyal men dying at the same time in a firing squad rendered by Eduard Monet. Tomas is the ancestor of Abigail Mejia Folger who was executed by members of the Manson Family, who knew who she was, and where she was – months before they entered the Tate home looking for her. Murders were committed beforehand in order to extort money from her and her wealthy parents. Consider Patty Hearst.
When the “piggy” message failed. they went for kidnapping. Sharon and Sebring – knew martial arts! Anyone else in that house? I suspect the CIA came on the scene and invented Savage Hippie Helter Skelter. They did this for several reasons. They did not want copycats going after the Rich in both America’s! Peter Folger was a Major in the Marines. There were wealthy Americans all over the Americas doing what Oligarchs do best! These are the pigs who had lethal bodyguards……ASSASINS!
I never bought the Race War Motive. Manson and his Crew wanted the same thing Donald Trump and his Crew want….Sex, Drugs, Money, Land – and the Village People? Wake up! This constitutes CONSPIRACY!
While an ordinary citizen, Trump and his Warriors wanted Greenland and Panama. I suspect Trump wants Greenland for his White Christian Warriors to dwell on for a thousand years. I suspect Trump wants Panama for himself and his family – when he is overthrown. Consider Noriega! I see hotels lining the canal in……Trumpanama!
John Presco
Copyright 2025
“Yes, Jay Sebring was an amateur karate enthusiast. He was a close friend of Bruce Lee, who taught him martial arts.
Explanation
Sebring was a celebrity hairstylist and founder of Sebring International. He was also a friend of Sharon Tate. “
EXTRA! Five minutes after I posted the above, I turned on the news and heard warnings about the Oligarchs – who hate freedom movements like the Hippie Movement. If Abagail Folger was forming a Hippie-like movement to overcome El Salvador – and other South American Nations – then they would get her – and her friends. I came across some articles on Manson and the CIA that I have yet to read. Helter Skelter destroyed Hippie Unity,
Every morning I brew a big cup of coffee, then sit before my computer…with my thumb in the dike!
Christmas has come early to the rightful King of Bohemia and Jerusalem because I just discovered the Hapsburg Law. I’m looking for a International Attorney in order to claim the Last Audience of the Habsburgs, and other property owned by the Habsburgs. I highly suggest the Czech Republican consider my claim if they want to receive help from the Americas. And – provide protection for Christians who want to visit the Holy Land this Christmas.
your information was forwarded to the Austrian Consulate General. Please give us more details why you to your mind the mentioned canvas was smuggled out of Austria and who did that.
I found this day The New Bohemian Puritan Church upon the union of Lady Erasmus, and Robert Wilson. The Evangelicals have launched a Catholic-like rebellion against a true Democracy that Pope Francis – must address! The Protestant Church of America is guilty of Popism, and must purge itself of Trumpism, the worst heresy ever to visit Christianity.
Here is the new group I formed, and my message to Karel Schwarzenberg.
I came upon your article posted on your facebook about a “Pirate Party” and the “Civil War” Above is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth with eyes and ears on her dress. This denotes the spy network she established to keep track of the Habsburg Spanish Empire, that the Schwarzenberg family was an ally of. The Jessie Scouts was formed around my relative, Jessie Benton-Fremont, in order to spy on the foreigners in Mexico, including Maximillian von Habsburg. John Fremont is a co-founder of the Abolitionist Republican Party, and was that parties first Presidential Candidate. Over a year ago it was revealed you are related to them and my Rosamond kin. You may be kin to John Wilson seen above – who looks like you! You may be kin to General Robert E. Lee, and Christopher Lee who is being knighted.
I am kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and Ian Fleming who created the spy, James Bond, who was assigned a number invented by John Dee. Dee was Queen Elizabeth’s favorite councilor. He appears to have set up the Queen’s Spy Unit. Dee was a guest of your relative, William Rosenberg, at Trebon castle where you might have stayed. Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Francis Drake on a exploration of the New World. Drake claimed California for Elizabeth, naming it New Albion.
I am looking for people to establish a Euro-California origination who would represent the interests of our Allies in trade across the Pacific. Fremont helped secure California and the Oregon Territory from the Russians and British. We would be honored if you would lend your expertise in this formation. Your openness and transparency – is stellar! California has the fifth largest economy in the world – that would become even more power with a bond with European Nations! I do not see the New Albion Union being run by politicians, but by men and women who own a certain vision, that I hope you can help define.
I was raised Catholic. Members of the Order of Saint Francis are my relatives. The Rosamond family were members of the Orange Lodge. As a theologian, I have ideas that will end the divide between the Catholic and Protestant Religion, and aim those ears and eyes at those who mean to do us harm, and take away our Common Liberty.
Sincerely
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Support Karel Schwarzenberg. I just formed a new group. Karel Schwarzenberg and his family have stood up to the greatest tyrants of our time. My Preskowitz ancestors came to American from Bohemia. Karel complains that Putin treats the Czech Republic like a colony. Many Bohemians found a new home in Nebraska. Let us create an organization similar to the British Defence Staff of Washington so we can own a Hands Across the Water Bond, that will stand up to all tyrants, as is our Common Tradition.
For several years I have been trying to bring to the attention of the Austrian Government the existence of the large canvas at the University of Oregon Museum titled ‘The Last Audience of the Habsburgs’ that was smuggled out of Austria. Alas, I have found just the right person. He is my kindred, Karl Schwarzenberg, who himself had to flee a oppressive regime. Karl opposes Putin, and backs Britain. I will contact him and see if he would like to come give a talk on this painting. His relative, Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, restored the Habsburg Empire.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond
The law stripped the Habsburgs of their sovereign rights and banished all Habsburgs from Austrian territory. Charles was barred from ever returning to Austria again. Other Habsburgs were only allowed to return if they renounced all dynastic claims and accepted status as private citizens. Those assets of the state that had been under the administration of the imperial court, the so-called Hofärar, were placed under the government’s management. The private funds and family funds of the House of Habsburg, common family property administered by the respective head of the house, were expropriated and transferred to the state property. Personal private property was preserved.
Permission to enter was granted to the last empress, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, without a waiver, in 1982, because she was a Habsburg only by marriage and could therefore make no claim to the imperial throne.
Cjristmas has come early to the Titular King of Bohemian – and Jerusalem!
In 1955, at the explicit request of the USSR the Habsburg law became part of the Austrian State Treaty.
From 1960, many members of the House Habsburg-Lorraine signed the waiver. In 1961, it was also signed by Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Charles’ son, who had succeeded his father as head of the house upon his father’s death in 1922. His entry was delayed until 1966 by the Habsburg crisis, in which the legal validity of his declaration was questioned. In this connection the National Council decided to interpret the Habsburg Law authentically, with a majority of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). Permission to enter was granted to the last empress, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, without a waiver, in 1982, because she was a Habsburg only by marriage and could therefore make no claim to the imperial throne.
Státní zámek Lednice / via Wikimedia Commons CC by SA 3.0
Two of the Czech Republic’s top tourist spots are at the center of an ownership dispute. The small country of Liechtenstein is seeking the return of a forest confiscated in 1945, and if it is successful in that test case, it will likely seek two chateaux and other more valuable land.
The complaint filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) concerns a 600 hectare forest near Říčany in Central Bohemia. If the country wins it would set a precedent for reclaiming other properties including the Lednice and Valtice chateaux in the South Moravia region, which have been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1996 and are major tourist attractions. The House of Liechtenstein owned the land and related properties in South Moravia since the mid 1200s.
Stefan Ein’s father was a member of the Nazi Party. When he came home at the end of World War Two, he took his infant son by his head, and hung him over a balcony, threatening to drop him. After hearing this two months ago, I pondered what was going through Mr. Ein’s mind. I conclude he was very disappointed Hitler lost the war, and, the Super Race Dream that his child represented. This boy became a living reminder, a symbol of utter failure. All hope is gone. The child must die with Hitler.
With Trump’s announcement he wants a new Cold War, we the people of the world have once again been taken hostage by nuclear terror, and we are dangling on the edge. Studies have been done on how much damage the nuclear threat is to the human psyche .Two months ago Stefan and I talked for an hour on the phone about the Habsburg painting at the Jordon Schnitzer Museum. He told me Austrian politics are very progressive, and thus the Austrians may no want this painting. In the last several days there is breaking news that Trump’s national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, met with the leader of the Right-wing group that is giving new life to Nazi ideas.
As I type, the United Nations is about to vote on keeping Israel from building new settlements that were first built by Turnverein Jews, Fort-Eighters who fought the Habsburg army, and lost. The Turners fled to America and Palestine. There would be no Israel without the terror and mass murder Stefan’s father launched on the world. There would be no Republican Party – and President Trump – without the Turners. Are the Habsburgs at the epicenter of the Doomsday Countdown?
your information was forwarded to the Austrian Consulate General. Please give us more details why you to your mind the mentioned canvas was smuggled out of Austria and who did that.
Kind regards
Josef Schwob
The Habsburg Law (Habsburgergesetz (in full, the Law concerning the Expulsion and the Takeover of the Assets of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine) Gesetz vom 3. April 1919 betreffend die Landesverweisung und die Übernahme des Vermögens des Hauses Habsburg-Lothringen) was a law originally passed by the Constitutional Assembly (Konstituierende Nationalversammlung) of the Republic of German-Austria, one of the successor states of dissolvedAustria-Hungary, on 3 April 1919. The law legally dethroned the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as rulers of the country which had declared itself a republic on 12 November 1918, exiled them and confiscated their property. The Habsburg Law was repealed in 1935 and the Habsburg family was given back its property. However, in 1938, following the Anschluss, the Nazis reintroduced the Habsburg Law, and it was retained when Austria regained its independence after World War II.
The Habsburg Law
The law has been found to violate human rights, and for this reason, Austria was forced to repeal large parts of it, notably the ban on members of the Habsburg family entering Austria, before being admitted to the European Union in 1995.[1] After a report by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) criticized the prohibition against members of the Habsburg family running for the Austrian presidency, this provision was also withdrawn in June 2011 by the Austrian parliament. Although the law still remains in force, it is considered largely obsolete, with the notable exception of the confiscation of the family’s property in force since 1938.[2]
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On 11 November 1918, EmperorCharles I, counseled by ministers of his last Imperial and Royal government as well as by ministers of German Austria, issued a proclamation relinquishing his right to take part in Austrian affairs of state. He also released the officials in the western (Austrian) half of the Habsburg realm from their oath of loyalty to him. On the following day, the Provisional National Assembly (Provisorische Nationalversammlung) of German-Austria, which claimed authority over the German-speaking portions of the western Habsburg lands (mostly the Danubian and Alpine provinces) proclaimed German-Austria a republic and announced its union with the German republic.
In the night after his proclamation Charles I and his family left Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and moved to Schloss Eckartsau east of the city, then belonging to the Habsburg Family Funds. There he was visited by a Hungarian delegation and on 13 November signed a similar proclamation for the Kingdom of Hungary.
Although these proclamations have sometimes been interpreted as abdications, Charles did not formally abdicate, intending to retain his freedom of action in case the people of either nation recalled him. The new republican government of Austria, uncomfortable with this situation, gave Charles three options: (1) abdicate formally and remain in Austria as a private citizen, (2) leave the country or (3) be interned.
With the help of Lieutenant ColonelEdward Lisle Strutt, a British Army officer sent by KingGeorge V, who was shocked by the fate of his Russian relatives, on 23 March Charles and his family departed from Eckartsau for Switzerland in the former Imperial train, Charles wearing a field marshal’s uniform. Before crossing the border on the morning of 24 March 1919, and changing into civilian clothes, he issued the Feldkircher Manifest, reiterating his claims to sovereignty and stating that any decision by the German-Austrian national assembly relating to the issue was “null and void for me and my House.” Officials of the new republican government were angered that Charles had left Austria without explicitly abdicating. Accordingly, on 3 April, the German-Austrian parliament, on the initiative of ChancellorKarl Renner, passed the Habsburg Law.
The law stripped the Habsburgs of their sovereign rights and banished all Habsburgs from Austrian territory. Charles was barred from ever returning to Austria again. Other Habsburgs were only allowed to return if they renounced all dynastic claims and accepted status as private citizens. Those assets of the state that had been under the administration of the imperial court, the so-called Hofärar, were placed under the government’s management. The private funds and family funds of the House of Habsburg, common family property administered by the respective head of the house, were expropriated and transferred to the state property. Personal private property was preserved.
Also on 3 April, nobility was abolished in German Austria, with the Law on the Abolition of Nobility.
The family demanded that various endowments and funds be placed at their disposal as personal private property; in response to this, and to clear up ambiguities related to this, the Habsburg Law was amended on 30 October 1919, retroactively from 3 April, expressly recording which of the claimed funds or endowments in particular were to count as expropriated.
When the Austrian Constitution came into force in 1920, the Habsburg Law was made a constitutional law. However, the provisions of the Habsburg Law concerning expropriation were expressly not brought into force in Burgenland in 1922 (as well as the Law on the Abolition of Nobility) when it became part of Austria. This was intended to turn the Burgenland aristocrats (who included members of the Habsburg family) more pro-Austrian, for pragmatic reasons. The oddity of a constitutional rule not applying to the whole republic was only “repaired” in 2008, when a federal constitutional law declared that by 1 January 2008 the Habsburg Law in total is valid wherever in Austria.
The Habsburg Law was downgraded under Federal Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg on 13 July 1935 at the time of the AustrofascistStändestaat (State of estates) from the status of constitutional law to that of normal law; the ban on certain Habsburgs from entering the country was lifted. The “Family-Provision Fund” of the Habsburg family was restored, and substantial property was returned to the fund.
After the “Anschluss“, ReichsstatthalterArthur Seyss-Inquart, head of the “Austrian State Government”, enacted the “Law on the cancellation of the transfer of property to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine”, on 14 March 1939, on the grounds of a personal Führer decree; thus, the property passed without compensation to the “Land Austria”, part of the Third Reich.
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In 1945, the Second Republic brought into force again the Constitution of 1920/1929 according to its version as of 1933, and with it also the Habsburg Law of 1919. With the Constitution Transition Law, all constitutional laws enacted between 1933 and 1945, and all laws which were not compatible with the constitution that was in force until 1933, were repealed. Thus, the legal situation of the First Republic was restored.
In 1955, at the explicit request of the USSR the Habsburg law became part of the Austrian State Treaty.
From 1960, many members of the House Habsburg-Lorraine signed the waiver. In 1961, it was also signed by Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Charles’ son, who had succeeded his father as head of the house upon his father’s death in 1922. His entry was delayed until 1966 by the Habsburg crisis, in which the legal validity of his declaration was questioned. In this connection the National Council decided to interpret the Habsburg Law authentically, with a majority of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) and the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). Permission to enter was granted to the last empress, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, without a waiver, in 1982, because she was a Habsburg only by marriage and could therefore make no claim to the imperial throne.
Members of the Habsburg family and other families, “that have ruled before”, have according to article 60, paragraph 3 of the federal constitution, the same rights and possibilities as any other Austrians, except from being unable to serve as Federal President. In 2010, Ulrich Habsburg-Lothringen, living in Carinthia, unsuccessfully tried to be accepted as a candidate at the federal president’s elections.
The Arbitration Panel of the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism (decisions 5/2004, 6/2004, 7/2004) has declared that it lacks jurisdiction over applications of the Habsburg family, for reasons of constitutional and international law. In a subsequent complaint of the Habsburg family concerning decisions of the Arbitration Panel, the Austrian constitutional court has declared that it lacks jurisdiction.
Robert E. Lee and I are in the family tree of this amazing family that is debating about getting its castles back that Hitler took from them, and then, the Soviet Union. This is an incredible story of a real Lost Kingdom that the Rosamond and Wilson family are a part of. So are the Bentons!
My first history book will be titled ‘Gone To Hartwell’ which could be a euphuism for ‘Gone Nuts’. The reason I love doing genealogies, is because 86% percent of the royals are nuts! Flawed and Crazy People have made 99% percent our history.
I have been warning my Dutch friends The Holy Trumpire was coming their way. The Dutch owned New York City that was called ‘New Amsterdam’. I posted about forming an alliance outside the evangelical-republican dictatorship to show our allegiance with the Dutch People that is extended to their allies, the Danes.
There’s a very good chance POTUS wanted to grab a title and give himself a medal after purchasing Greenland. This goes with me gifting the Lousiana Territory to my fiancé when I was just the King of California.
It is clear to everyone who subscribes to this blog that Trump is reading it, and is a copycat! Unfortunately………..I paved his way!
Welcome to the Coo-Coo’s Nest, Mr. President. Welcome to the Emerald Valley, and, the Yellow Brick Road.
Seer Jon
President Donald Trump claimed to laughter on Wednesday that he sought to give himself a Medal of Honor, but decided not to after being counseled against the move by aides.
The offhand remark from the president came during his address to the 75th annual national convention of American Veterans, a volunteer-led veterans service organization also known as AMVETS.
At the event in Louisville, Kentucky, Trump singled out for praise WWII veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Woody Williams.
“That was a big day, Medal of Honor. Nothing like the Medal of Honor,” he continued. “I wanted one, but they told me I don’t qualify, Woody. I said, ‘Can I give it to myself anyway?’ They said, ‘I don’t think that’s a good idea.’”
Thirty years ago I read the Bible for the first time. I was forty-two. What I saw, was John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Disciples had opened the Judaic Religion – to everyone! Saul-Paul closed The First Church, and shut out the Jews. Therefore, I declare the Catholic and Protestant Churches – dead! Only the Moravian Church – survives! This Church is open to everyone!
Alles Erdreich Ist Österreich Untertan, Austriae Est Imperare Orbi Universo
(“All the world is subject to Austria” or “Austria is the Empire of the entire world”, usually abbreviated to A.E.I.O.U., the motto of Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg and of the Habsburg Empire after him)
Lobkowicz Palace (part of the Prague Castle complex).
A noble family in the Czech Republic saw their castles and 20,000 cultural artifacts stolen, first by the Nazis then by the Communists.
William Rudolf Lobkowicz, a 27-year-old prince, is trying to preserve and share this 700-year-old legacy using NFTs, the blockchain and the metaverse.
CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos and William Rudolf Lobkowicz in the Family Chapel of the Lobkowicz Palace depicting an early 18th-century altarpiece painting of St. Wenceslas, patron saint of the Czech nation.
Nazi officers observing plans during their occupation of Roudnice Castle in 1939. The castle was turned into an SS training camp.
In the last two days the world has been considering if Donald Trump is invincible -and will be reelected President of the United States – AGAIN? The really mind-boggling question is – how can he be reelected – if he was not UN-ELECTED! Many real scholars are suggesting we are looking at….
THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY!
As a Biblical Scholar I CAN SEE what is coming – NEXT! I own powers of deduction – TOO! For two months I have been flirting with the Mormon Religion. I was preparing them to be – free and clear of the death of the Republican Party – that has gone insane! I told them about ‘The Last Audience of the Habsburgs’ that will be located three miles from their new temple that will be in Eugene – or Springfield – about a mile from where KORE stood. I was considering a Baptism of all the Habsburgs – IF I get baptized! I studied if it was possible to educate the LDS Church. I concluded…..
I BEST DO EVERYTHING MYSELF!
Many people believe Trump and his cult followers – are like the old Nazis – who stole the Bohemian castles of my alleged ancestors. I found an article about the Lobcowicz family who are trying to recover their property that was – LOST DURING THE WAR! People go to war to RECLAIM what they rightfully BELIEVE BELONGS TO THEM. Trump ran on this idea that can no longer be contained and channeled in a prescribed reality. IT IS BREAKING OUT!
John Presco
“Chris Lovegrove, who reviewed The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail when first published in 1982, dismissed the significance of a Jesus bloodline even it were proven to exist despite all evidence to the contrary:
If there really is a Jesus dynasty – so what? This, I fear, will be the reaction of many of those prepared to accept the authors’ thesis as possible, and the book does not really satisfy one’s curiosity in this crucial area
In the Land of Israel, Austria- Hungary’s polyglot army was part of the realpolitik strategic alliance between the Central Powers – Muslim Turkey, Roman Catholic Austria- Hungary, mixed Protestant-Catholic Germany and Orthodox Bulgaria. All three empires – the Ottoman, Habsburg and Hohenzollern – collapsed at the end of the war.
Tim Wallace-Murphy, Marilyn Hopkins, . . Weiser, $22.95 (268pp) ISBN 978-1-57863-323-4
In this second collaboration, Wallace-Murphy and Hopkins continue a quest begun in their first work, Rex Deus . This similarly themed sophomore effort finds them making a case for identifying the Holy Grail as the bloodline of Jesus Christ and portraying subsequent efforts to protect that lineage throughout history. They claim to have been contacted by a man known only as Michael, who claims to be a descendant of Jesus Christ and a custodian of the secret of the Grail. To support their thesis, the authors recast biblical history as a vast coverup, an ingenious story concocted by priests and plotters. They continue with a narrative of church and state conspiring to maintain the secret of the Grail, beginning with the early church, through the Middle Ages and finally to the present day. To accept the authors’ premise, one must consent to the idea of a massive coverup, a cabal involving church, various governments and science. Furthermore, one must agree that Jesus survived the crucifixion and lived on to raise his children and produce a family line. Drawing heavily from known secondary sources, this book offers little that is new, but rather a rehash of much that has already been published and has been heavily popularized through the novel The Da Vinci Code . It does, however, provide a readable—if fervent—overview of this controversial theory. (June)
Not only have I found Sleeping Beauty Rosa, I have found her Kingdom in San Francisco!
“After Victor Emmanuel became King of Sardinia he appointed Cipriani to be his first consul in San Francisco.”
Cipriani’s home was brought around the Cape by my kindred, Carl Janke, whose daughter married William Stuttmeister. I believe my kindred were chosen to help found the Sardinian Colony that would support Victor Emmanuel’s kingdom. This is astonishing! With the history of John Fremont and his wife, Jessie Benton, my kindred are the Acme of California History.
Many historians have wondered why the Italian Mafia was not present in California (with the exception of Big Bone Remmer) It appears the Sardinians own the franchise. Now I understand why, and how, my father, Victor William Presco, was a “made man”. The Stuttmeisters may be Italian-Germans. Here is William Stuttmeister and Cipriani.
I declare myself the Cultural Embasador of the Kingdom of Sardinia. I will establish a cultural exchange between Sardinia and its California Colonly. I will make Sardinia the the Tourist Mecca for San Francisco natives. We will form a Art Exchange program based upon the works of Frederico Biesta, a owner of a SF newspaper. There will be a Festival Sardinia Day held in Belmont.
Christine came to live with me at the Idle Hands Commune in San Francisco paid for by Betty Williams, who was married to Col. Zorthian, a Armenian who was titled ‘The Last Bohemian’. We knew the manufacturers of LSD that fueled the Kesey Revolution. Nancy Van Brasch lived with us. Jessie Benton was a good friend of Lewis Kossuth who lived with Giuseppe Mazzini in London. She and John had a bodyguard made up of Hungarian Forty-Eighters who also fought the Papal Army in Europe. Wenzel Anton Prescowitz was a Forty-Eighter from Bohemia. We are looking at the most radical people in the world that would form the Abolitionist Republican Party.
This is the Invisible Revolution that made California a Colony of the Kingdom of Sardinia that was surrounded by the Habsburgs who had backed the Papacy for a thousand years. This is why Count Cipriani drove a herd of cattle to California known for its fruit and vegetables. The Rose of the World Revolution would not be starved out. If Opus Dai had a mortal enemy, it was Victor Emanuel, and Belle Marie Rosa.
Click on top photo to enlarge. There is a gun hanging in the tree between my father;s grandfather, William Broderick, and his wife, Alice Stuttmeister, who looks like Christine and Vicki. We lived with Beema and Beepa in Oakland where these folks fled after the San Francisco after the earthquake. The gentleman holding the wine may be the father of William Broderick. There is no lineage for this branch who I suspect were the Illuminati, and sold barrels to bootleggers during Prohibition. Who do you think owns that rifle? How many Catholics fell in the sights of this weapon?
There is a black wreath hung in the tree next to the rifle. What message does that give?
Then there are the Rougemont Knight Templars that owned the Shroud of Turin. They were the Dukes of Athens, and very possible my kindred on my mother Rosemary’s side. The Stuttmeisters were Teutonic Knights. President Obama sent more troops to fight ISIS from Germany.
To my loyal friends, Marilyn Reed, and Amy Sargent, history will honor you as Good Souls, who cared about my mental and physical health. Like I told my sixteen year old daughter after we met for the first time……
After Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, the Italian states were restored to their former rulers. Under the domination of Austria, these states took on a conservative character. Secret societies such as the Carbonari opposed this development in the 1820s and ’30s. The first avowedly republican and national group was Young Italy, founded by Giuseppe Mazzini in 1831. This society, which represented the democratic aspect of the Risorgimento, hoped to educate the Italian people to a sense of their nationhood and to encourage the masses to rise against the existing reactionary regimes. Other groups, such as the Neo-Guelfs, envisioned an Italian confederation headed by the pope; still others favored unification under the house of Savoy, monarchs of the liberal northern Italian state of Piedmont-Sardinia.
Victor Amadeus initially resisted the exchange, and until 1723 continued to style himself King of Sicily rather than King of Sardinia. The state took the official title of Kingdom of Sardinia, Cyprus and Jerusalem, as the house of Savoy still claimed the thrones of Cyprus and Jerusalem, although both had long been under Ottoman rule.
On 17 March 1861, law no. 4671 of the Sardinian Parliament proclaimed the Kingdom of Italy, so ratifying the annexations of all other Apennine states, plus Sicily, to the Kingdom of Sardinia.[17] The institutions and laws of the Kingdom were quickly extended to all of Italy, abolishing the administrations of the other regions. Piedmont became the most dominant and wealthiest region in Italy and the capital of Piedmont, Turin, remained the Italian capital until 1865, when the capital was moved toFlorence. But many revolts exploded throughout the peninsula, especially in southern Italy, and on the island of Sicily, because of the perceived unfair treatment of the south by the Piedmontese ruling class. The House of Savoy ruled Italy until 1946 when Italy was declared a republic by referendum. In this referendum the southern regions, including Sardinia, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the House of Savoy, with the results being 63.8% in favor of maintaining the monarchy.
It appears that Cipriani was successful in uniting the House of Savoy with the Bonapartes, and thus the House of Stuart. Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul of France, Pr Napoléon, married in Turin in 1859, Princess Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emanuel. From this union would come other Bonapartes with the name Victor. Prince Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric, Prince LOUIS Jérôme Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie, and, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Was the Jacobite ‘Order of the White Rose’ somewhat successful in their plan to put the Stuarts on a throne and rule the world? There appears to contention with the Prussians who can claim the same ancestry through the Winter Queen of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James, and thus the Hanovers who are in all regards, the Windsors.
Before introducing the issue of the relationship between theColony and the central government, let us look into this type of political immigration which was characterised by different social implications and cultural backgrounds. In fact, one of these political immigrants was the young Leonetto Cipriani (1812-1888), destined to become the first Sardinian Consul of San Francisco. Assigned the tasks of improving trade between the Sardinian Kingdom and California,
’ in 1852, in quarters which he had physically brought from home. Curiously, the newborn Sardinian Consulate was constructed from 1200 pieces of wood, transported by sea and personally assembled by Cipriani and his entourage. Undoubtedly the official representative of the Sardinian Kingdom was welcomed with “interestand distinction” within a young Italian community which needed political support. Cipriani ’s activity in San Francisco essentially concerned the financial enhancementof the Colony, by improving maritime trade with the homeland. To this end the Consul enlisted the help of Nicola Larco and widely favoured him, funding the most lucrative initiatives of the Ligurian entrepreneur Cipriani was also a romantic: both his venturesome choice of emigrating to California and his early resignation can be traced to this inclination. In any case, more relevant than Cipriani’s impetuous nature is his list of citizens of the Kingdom, which he sent to Turin in 1853: this document is the first original report giving the names and activities of early Italian pioneers in California. Thanks to the list, we are introduced to a number of Italian residents in the West, including Larco and another personage who would later become historically significant: a certain Federico Biesta, vaguely and informally defined as a property owner Possibly even more interesting than the names included on the list is the exclusion of certain others. For instance, though his presence in San Francisco during the same period is well-established, the Sardinian Consul did not mention Felice Argenti, founder of the 1941 North American Chapter of the Giovine Italia. We now know that many others were also excluded from the list as well as Argenti: the new Consul, in fact, deliberately
During the nineteenth century many prominent Italian travelers visited the Far West. One of the earliest visitors was Leonetto Cipriani (1812-1888). Cipriani was born in Corsica but his family roots (like those of Napoleon Bonaparte) were in Tuscany. After the Battle of Waterloo the family returned to Tuscany where it established a successful mercantile business. Cipriani was eventually appointed by Grand Duke Leopold II to be governor of Livorno and in that capacity established relations with King Carlo Alberto (King of Sardinia) and Louis Napoleon (President of France). – See more at: http://sanfranciscoitaly.com/post/123993261859/meet-the-first-italian-consul-in-san-francisco#sthash.e7UAQ3f2.dpuf
After Victor Emmanuel became King of Sardinia he appointed Cipriani to be his first consul in San Francisco. Cipriani’s memoirs, which contain narratives of three separate journeys to California in 1851, 1853 and 1871, were published in1934. He recorded some very interesting encounters. In fact, the accounts of his two earliest journeys are the only central overland narrative written by an Italian. Throughout his travels he encountered local leaders and diplomats as well as other Italians. In Salt Lake City he met Brigham Young and other members of the Mormon hierarchy, with whom he established good relations, as well as an Italian musician named Gennaro Capone. In San Francisco, he was introduced to the French and Austrian Consuls as well as Nicola Lauro who he described as “the richest Italian merchant in the city” and his cousin Ottavio Cipriani. He also describes how he assembled his elegant prefabricated home in Belmont, the first of consequence on the San Francisco peninsula, later to become the Ralston mansion.
His memoirs Avventure della mia vita (pictured above) were published more than forty-five years after his death and were based on a manuscript that is still located in Bastia, Corsica in the original sea chest that he used during his travels. These memoirs were first translated into English by Ernest Falbo and published as California and Overland Diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani from 1853 through 1871 (Portland, OR: The Champoeg Press, 1962). More recently I had the honor to examine the Cipriani archives in Bastia, Corsica. I included excerpts from Cipriani’s account in my documentary history of European travelers (including other prominent Italians) who visited Utah entitled “On the Way to Somewhere Else” (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2010) which is still in prin
The Papal States were territories in the Italian Peninsula under the sovereign direct rule of the pope, from the 8th century until 1870. They were among the major states of Italy from roughly the 8th century until the Italian Peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia. At their zenith, they covered most of the modern Italian regions of Lazio (which includes Rome), Marche, Umbria and Romagna, and portions of Emilia. These holdings were considered to be a manifestation of the temporal power of the pope, as opposed to his ecclesiastical primacy. After 1861, the Papal States, reduced to Lazio, continued to exist until 1870. Between 1870 and 1929, the pope had no physical territory at all. Eventually Italian leader Benito Mussolini solved the crisis between modern Italy and the Vatican, and, in 1929, the Vatican City State was granted sovereignty.
Count Cipriani was born in Centuri Corsica, on October 10,
1812. On his father’s side he is descended from an old Florentine family of Ghibellines, which after a long struggle with the vitorious Guelfs, found refgue in Corsica in the fifteenth century. On his mother’s side he is descended from Saint Francis Caracciolo of Naples, and thus Saint Aquinas. This struggle inspired Shakespear to write ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and thus the question “What is in a name?” came to be.
Royal Rosamond Press dedicates this closure to my chapter ‘Bohemians and Bankers’ to Cipriani, a man who shaped the West, and knew the ancestor of Rosamond, the ‘Rose of the World.
John Presco
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“Returning to Paris in October, 1855, he was warmly received by his friend Prince Napoleon who overwhelmed him with questions about his travels in America. “I answered them the best I could.” Cipriani wrote, “But , it is a veritable deluge….We keep talking about my journeys, of the Sanora, of conquering it.” Perhaps he thought of seizing it for France and hoped the prince might persuade his cousin the Emperor to finance the undertaking. “It is an idea in the air,” he added, “that I would willingly undertake, if necessary capital and men were available.” To another member of the imperial household, Jerome Bonaparte, ex-king of Westphalia, Cipriani revealed tha the had considerable investments in California and hinted at receiving interest of twelve to fifteen percent a month on his money. He also boasted of his house in Belmont which “out there is considered magnificent.” On behalf of the Emperor Napoleon 3, he visited King Victor Emanuel of Sardinia to explore the possibilities of a matrimonial arrangement between the ruling houses as a prelude to a political- military alliance between France and Sardinia. The conversation eventually turned to Cipriani’s overland journey of 1853, which apparently had not escaped the king’s notice. “I have heard tell,” he said, “of a great journey of yours, with you on horseback and camping out.” “For eight solid months, Your Majesty,” Cipriani replied, making certain to include the time he left San Francisco in February to October, 1853. “But it is true.” the king continued, “that you led covered wagons and crossed the Rocky Mountains where there was roads, and great rivers without any bridges.”
The above is from the ‘California and Overland Diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani’. a journey that may constitute the first cattle drive. What this diary reveals is France’s plan to conquer Mexico, and perhaps the Western United States.
“Cipriani must have followed with close interest the activities of Count Raousset-Boulbon and other French filibusters in the Sonora province of Mexico. The French consul in San Francisco, in difficulty with the American government for his alleged support of such filibustering activity, wrote to the Sardinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1854 that he was grateful (moral) support he was receiving from Colonel Cipriani. That Cirpiani had entertained some such expedition in the Sonora is clear from his memoirs though there is no evidence of any actual participation.”
https://books.google.com/books?id=ESusAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=frederico+biesta+cerruti&source=bl&ots=yMSEfYTxVz&sig=e2EUDGXoyaBRpHftjQRoFAGpUzk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqvbWyxq_MAhWHKGMKHdfKBIYQ6AEILDAE#v=onepage&q=frederico%20biesta%20cerruti&f=false With the ‘Gold Rush’ came foreigners who sought to fulfill the manifest destiny of their nations who now feared the growing richness and power of America and the role she might play on the world stage. One could say pre-emptive strikes were made against the “boastful barbarians” as Count Cipriani titled most of the Americans he encountered. Without a doubt he followed with interest the moves of Count Gaston Raousset-Boulbon, who arrived in San Francisco on August 22, 1850, just at moment US laws segregated the foreign people who came to search for California riches. His arrival coincided with the move of thousands of French-people who looked for a way out of the wars in their country, who came to find substance and well-being in California. Not finding any gold, Raousett wondered if California’s gold extended into the Mexican State of Sonora. I am sure Ciprinai wondered this as well, and he may have organized his cattle drive for such an expedition, he selling some California property to the Rothschilds to bank-roll his adventure that the Bonapartes were well aware of.
Raousset-Boulbon made his first trip to Mexico in February 1852. Once in Mexico City, he met Consul André Levasseur who introduced him to investors of a company called La Restauradora whose majority partner was Jecker, Torre and Co. On April 7, 1852, Raousset- Boulbon singed a contract with La Restauradora on which he is appointed jointly with an “agent”, who he met in San Francisco, to explore all places in northern Sonora, and discover gold mines.. The Count returned to San Francisco, and recruited a company of about 270 men, in addition to weapons and food. On May 19, 1852, he left San Francisco, on the Archival Gracie to arrive Guaymas, Sonora, the first day of July, under a spectacular welcome provided by the Guaymas people and Sonora authorities. But in no time it was clear he was a rebel. Raousset-Boulbon granted the company with a flag with the French colors and the words “Indepéndance de Sonora”. On October 1852, General Navarro and Blanco faced Roausset near Hermosillo. The treaty with the French company was dissolved, but Blanco guaranteed the security of the French. Raousset-Boulbon, who had hidden in Guaymas, and did not sign the treaty. The project in ruin, the French nobleman returned to San Francisco where he consolidated his mission in Sonora: Becoming rich with the supposed Sonora gold Putting a stop to the US expansionism. Reestablish the pure Latin-blood on the Americas. Taking revenge on Mariano Arista.
Back in Mexico, Arista was deposed and replaced by Juan Bautista Ceballos as the presidency, then by Manuel María Lombardini, who in turn was succeeded by Santa Anna, and Gandsen, US minister to Mexico. Raousset-Boulbon departed from San Francisco on June 16, 1853, arriving in Mexico City on July 7. He met Santa Anna and discused with him his colonization project in Sonora by bringing 6,000 emigrants from Upper California from Europe in six years. Santa Anna refused the proposals and Raousset-Boulbon’s forces were finally defeated by General José María Yáñez on July 13, 1854. He is shot dead on August 12, 1854. Around 1860 a group of rich Mexican emigrants met in Europe, they had fled the Juarez revolution. Catholic and conservative, they looked for support in Europe for their plan to establish a monarchy in Mexico. They needed money, troops and a genuine European noble. The Bonapartes had tried to bestow nobility upon Cipriani, but he refused fearing to become more of a puppet then he was. Victor Emanuel had made him Governor of Balogna, and he would become the first President of the United Kingdom of Italy. Cipriani would marry an American, Mary Tolly Worhtington of Baltimore County who a descendant of George Washington. Cipriani descends from the famous Caracciolo family of Naples, and appears to be the son of Napoeleon’s major dommo, Franchesci Cipriani. The whole truth is not being told here, and Cipriani may have been playing down the royal hand he was dealt.
Jerome Bonaparte married Elizabeth Patterson, and wealthy heiress. Emperor Napoleon had marred Marie-Louis von Habsburg, and it was a Habsburg that be amply qualified to become the first Emperor of Mexico. Napoleon III. gave the emigrants troops, French financial circles assured their assistance. The French supported the conservatives in the civil war with the radicals and occupied the capital. They planned an expansion of France on the American continent close to the United States of America, torn up by the civil war. Maximilian supported aspect of the Confederacy, it said he financing Quantril. After the Civil War many Confederate officers and politicians found sanctuary in Mexico. The brother of the emperor Franz Josef, archduke Ferdinand Max, seemed to be a suitable candidate. He was married to the Belgian princess Charlotte. As commander of the Austrian navy and governor general of Milan, he could not live all his ideas. Poet, lover of large gestures, an emperor throne was enticing for him. In addition he was honestly convinced to be able to bring law and peace to Mexico. In 1863, pushed by Napoleon III., the ambitious Maximilian and its wife Charlotte, fulfilled by romantic ideas, are proclaimed emperor of Mexico. Charlotte saw herself as co-emperor, perhaps even as the actual emperor, requesting her husband to finally show his qualities – in Mexico. Perhaps she wanted also to flee the bores the Miramar castle and the shades of the more beautiful empress Elisabeth. The Austrian court was suspicious about this adventure, Maximilian had to resign any rights of succession to the Austrian throne. An Austrian volunteer corps followed him. Their uniforms aroused the mockery of the Mexican children. On the trip the couple prepared for their new job: How to behave at the audience, how to place guests at diner, which medals to be given, what uniforms the guards should wear. But the emperor found only few followers and an indebted government. The Mexican empire remained limited to a considerable number of generals, ministers, chamberlains, stable masters, cooks, gardeners and palace guards, plus some land owners and businessmen, who profited from the emperor. Maximilian, a Sombrero on his head, traveled around the country, gave dinners and distributed medals. He adopted a small Mexican boy as his son, his mother reclaimed him back later. This was a gesture my father would imitate as he loved history and admired the Habsburgs. The republicans became stronger and advanced. Vienna stood briefly before the 1866 war against Prussia and Italy, and permitted only a limited recruitment of volunteers. But they sent from the imperial collections the shield of Montezuma and the report by Cortez to Karl V., how he had won victory against the Aztecs. The USA supported the opponents of the emperor, conforming to the Monroe doctrine “America the Americans”. They demanded and obtained that the recruitment of volunteers in Austria was stopped, 2000 men already embarked had to leave their ships. With the victory of the north in the American civil war 1865 the decision fell also in Mexico. In vain, empress Charlotte searched assistance. She arrived in Europe after the battle of Königgrätz. In Paris, which had an assistance contract with Mexico, she got the answer from Napoleon III., “it would be good, if her majesty would not hang on to illusions”. Napoleon did not want to invest money into an affair without future. She did not even bother to go to Vienna. Franz Josef did not want to hear anything of its brother, specially not since the Viennese rallied after the lost war against Prussia “Vivat emperor Maximilian”, who seemed to them as more liberal and the better emperor for Austria. Her last hope was the Pope, who could have talked to Napoleon and Franz Josef, concluded a concordat with Mexico and convinced the Mexican catholic church. But Pius IX. only wanted to pray. Charlotte fell into depression, one night fled from the hotel and required lodging in the Vatican. Her brother brought the mentally ill Empress back to Miramar. The French troops withdrew. Maximilian was on the way back to Austria, however his Belgian and Austrian advisor’s, specifically father Fischer convinced him not to give up the throne. Even his mother now requested from him to endure as long this “can happen with honor “. His wife had written in a memorandum before her departure that “abdication is condemning himself, an certification of inability, acceptable for the old and stupid, but not for a prince of 34 years full of live and future.” But his armed forces were small and little motivated. On May 15th, 1867 Maximilian handed his sword to the partisan leader Escobedo. He was taken prisoner. He could have fled, but he had refused to leave his most devoted officers. He was condemned to death. In the prison he complained briefly before his execution, that he was here because he had followed his wife. Now the diplomacy got into motion to prevent that a member of the ruling European dynasty would be shot like a simple murderer. Franz Joseph restored Maximilian’s rights to the succession of the Austrian throne and asked the American secretary of state to intervene. On June 19th, 1867 Maximilian was executed on the Cerro de las Campanas, a hill near the city Queretaro together with the generals Miguel de Miramon and Thomas Mejia – latter an Indian – scarcely 350 years after the murder of Montezuma by Spanish mercenaries. Maximilian gave a golden piece of twenty pesos to each soldier of the firing squad. He was idealist, a human full of liberal thoughts and had honestly hoped to bring the Mexican people liberty and internal peace, “a figure of beautiful, pure knighthood, which will teach up- striving souls that it there is something higher than the bare life and benefit” wrote Adalbert Stifter. He was idealist, a human full of liberal thoughts and had honestly hoped to bring the Mexican people liberty and internal peace, “a figure of beautiful, pure knighthood, which will teach up- striving souls that it there is something higher than the bare life and benefit” wrote Adalbert Stifter.
It appears that Cipriani was successful in uniting the House of Savoy with the Bonapartes, and thus the House of Stuart. Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul of France, Pr Napoléon, married in Turin in 1859, Princess Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emanuel. From this union would come other Bonapartes with the name Victor. Prince Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric, Prince LOUIS Jérôme Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie, and, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Was the Jacobite ‘Order of the White Rose’ somewhat successful in their plan to put the Stuarts on a throne and rule the world? There appears to contention with the Prussians who can claim the same ancestry through the Winter Queen of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James, and thus the Hanovers who are in all regards, the Windsors.
Did the Jacobite movement come to America? I am authoring a biography of my family, and came upon Count Leonetto Cipriani who became the President of Italy.
Jon
“On behalf of the Emperor Napoleon 3, he visited King Victor Emanuel of Sardinia to explore the possibilities of a matrimonial arrangement between the ruling houses as a prelude to a political- military alliance between France and Sardinia.”
“It appears that Cipriani was successful in uniting the House of Savoy with the Bonapartes, and thus the House of Stuart.”
Anarchists, Jacobites, Masons & Manifest Destiny
The City of Belmont California was founded by Count Cipriani who appears to be related to the Anarchists of Italy, who may have had something to do with Sissi’s assasination. Anarchists Clubs sprang up in Italy in response to the Hapsburg’s and Austria coming to rule Italy. Opposed by the Piedmontese and the Milanese, Count Leonetto Cipriani would champion the cause of a free and democratic Italy.
“A writer hostile to Cipriani accused him of forbidding his son Italian citizenship because he did not want the boy to be a subject of an Italy that, after 1882, was allied with the traditional enemy, Hapsburg Austria. Cipriani seldom forgave and never forgot an enemy.”
Whether Leonetto Cipriani is related to the infamous Italian Anarchist, Amilcare Cipriani, I do not know. But, they surely had the same cause, that would come to shape the culture of San Francisco, if not the whole Pacific Coast, and not just the Italian community. It appears that Cipriani was successful in uniting the House of Savoy with the Bonapartes, and thus the House of Stuart. Prince Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul of France, Pr Napoléon, married in Turin in 1859, Princess Clothilde of Savoy daughter of Victor Emanuel. From this union would come other Bonapartes with the name Victor. Prince Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric, Prince LOUIS Jérôme Victor Emmanuel Léopold Marie, and, Prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Was the Jacobite ‘Order of the White Rose’ somewhat successful in their plan to put the Stuarts on a throne and rule the world? There appears to contention with the Prussians who can claim the same ancestry through the Winter Queen of Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of King James, and thus the Hanovers who are in all regards, the Windsors.
Count Cipriani was born in Centuri Corsica, on October 10, 1812. On his father’s side he is descended from an old Florentine family of Ghibellines, which after a long struggle with the vitorious Guelfs, found refuge in Corsica in the fifteenth century. On his mother’s side he is descended from Saint Francis Caracciolo of Naples, and thus Saint Aquinas. This struggle inspired Shakespear to write ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and thus the question “What is in a name?” came to be.
“Returning to Paris in October, 1855, he was warmly received by his friend Prince Napoleon who overwhelmed him with questions about his travels in America. “I answered them the best I could.” Cipriani wrote, “But , it is a veritable deluge….We keep talking about my journeys, of the Sanora, of conquering it.” Perhaps he thought of seizing it for France and hoped the prince might persuade his cousin the Emperor to finance the undertaking. “It is an idea in the air,” he added, “that I would willingly undertake, if necessary capital and men were available.”
To another member of the imperial household, Jerome Bonaparte, ex-king of Westphalia, Cipriani revealed tha the had considerable investments in California and hinted at receiving interest of twelve to fifteen percent a month on his money. He also boasted of his house in Belmont which “out there is considered magnificent.”
On behalf of the Emperor Napoleon 3, he visited King Victor Emanuel of Sardinia to explore the possibilities of a matrimonial arrangement between the ruling houses as a prelude to a political- military alliance between France and Sardinia. The conversation eventually turned to Cipriani’s overland journey of 1853, which apparently had not escaped the king’s notice. “I have heard tell,” he said, “of a great journey of yours, with you on horseback and camping out.”
“For eight solid months, Your Majesty,” Cipriani replied, making certain to include the time he left San Francisco in February to October, 1853. “But it is true.” the king continued, “that you led covered wagons and crossed the Rocky Mountains where there was roads, and great rivers without any bridges.”
The above is from the ‘California and Overland Diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani’. a journey that may constitute the first cattle drive. What this diary reveals is France’s plan to conquer Mexico, and perhaps the Western United States.
“Cipriani must have followed with close interest the activities of Count Raousset-Boulbon and other French filibusters in the Sonora province of Mexico. The French consul in San Francisco, in difficulty with the American government for his alleged support of such filibustering activity, wrote to the Sardinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1854 that he was grateful (moral) support he was receiving from Colonel Cipriani. That Cirpiani had entertained some such expedition in the Sonora is clear from his memoirs though there is no evidence of any actual participation.”
In 1851 he brought to Belmont a prefabricated house in 1,200 parts, to be fastened together with 700 hooks and 26,000 screws. He invested in local realestate but lacked the Midas touch. The Count sold his prefab house and sailed back east to organize a wagon train to move overland to the Pacific. In 1853 the Count left Missouri with 11 wagons, 24 hired hands, 500 cattle, 600 cattle, 60 horses, and 40 mules. He wrote an account of this six-month journey that became the book ‘The California and Overland Diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani’ by Ernest Falbo.
But, I have just touched the surface, for it appears Count Cipriani was a relative of Napoleon’s’s major donmo, Franchisci Cipriani who was a fellow Tuscan, whose family knew the Bonapartes well, and were with him in the end, in the emperor’s exile on St. Helena. What is truly extraordinary, is, there have recently appeared several books, and a couple of television documentary in Europe suggesting it is the body of Franchesci Cipriani who was found in the coffin of Napoleon when it was exhumed and moved from England to France. You will hear more about this as this genealogical tale, and mystery, unfolds.
Count Cipriani would make seven more voyages to the United States, dabbling in mining, ranching, and the stock market. When Cipriani was called home to serve in the Italian Senate in 1853, he turned over his consular duties to a most unlikely Italian, Patrice Guillaume Dillon, the French consul with the Irish last name. Dillon was responsible for all matters concerning all the Italians in the Far West. Since he could not read or write Italian, Dillon employed a friend of Cipriani’s, Frederico Biesta. Biesta would eventually serve as acting consul for Sardinia within the French Consulate. What is going on here?
Biesta was born in Turin, the home of the Holy Shroud, and served in the Army of King Charles Albert of Sardinia with considerable distinction. He was made a cavalier. After six months he had to turn to his friend Cipriani for financial help, and because of his many talents, Cipriani became his backer. When the French government reassigned Dillon to Port au Prince in 1857, Biesta became acting consul of Sardinia. Everyone expected him to be named permanently, but to everyone’s dismay he was passed over, and a native of London, Benjamin Davidson got the post.
Davidson owed his selection to the fact he was the local agent of the Rothschild banking house of London. Count Cavour’s of Sardinia policies were commonly said to be financed by loans from the Rothschilds. European Bankers were eager to have their agents in consulates where thy could be on the lookout for financial opportunities. Napoleon had his agents all over thw world and was forever at war with Jacob Rothschild
Members of the emporers family were said to be Freemasons. I suspect Dillon was a Mason, as was Bret Harte, the Californian writer and poet who was the discovery of Jesse Benton Fremont, the wife of the founder of the Republican Party, and its first Presidential candidate, John Fremont who was titled ‘The Trail Blazer’, he a Pioneer of the West. Jesse Benton is an ancestor of my niece Drew Benton, whose father, Garth Benton, married my late siser, the world renowned artist who signed he art by her middle name, Rosamond, which is my mother Rosemary’s maiden This name hails from Rougemont Switzerland.
Ralston’s’ death by drowning in San Francisco Bay while taking his usual swim, has been titled a murder by some, it said his demise coming at the hands of the agents for Rothschild Banking. William Sharon would come to own the chateau of Cipriani, and beget a powerful family of politicians and bankers, including the founder of Welles Fargo. These bankers are related to the famous Preston family who are kin to the Benton family, and thus my niece.
When Ralston needed silver and gold bullion to back up his bank notes and stop a run on his, and other Sand Francisco banks, he had a un- named person let him into the San Fransisco Mint, and in the middle of the night they carried a couple of tons of bullion through the streets. In the morning, Ralston showed the people the large pile of gold and silver stacked-up in his bank. I believe this person who worked in the Mint was Bret Harte, as it was Jesse Benton who got him the job at the mint, where was minted the first U.S. coin where on is printed these words “In God We Trust”. Some believe this motto is of Masonic origin.
A Veteran Italian Editor Passes Away. He Died With His Pen in His Hand While at Work Translating Telegrams. The veteran Italian editor, soldier and diplomat. Fedeilco Kle>ta, died in his apartments on Mdtitgouieiy street at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. He passeci away quiellyiwith lits pen in his hand, and seemed as If he was going to sleep, so peaceful was the end.
i-‘ederico Uiesta was one of the best- known Kalians in California, tie was looked upon by bis own people as a man of high Intellectual attainments, and was respected by them. Somewhat irritable in disposition, but most reserved Iv manner, he counted his intimate friends only by hundreds, but ihose that he had loved him and appieciaied his intellectual aitainnients. At the tune of his death he was trausl.tlne telegrams lor the Ittliau paper L’Elvezia, and woiKed up to the lait moment, and ouiv stopped wiiting to die. lie had been sick for some time w itn a torm of anaemia, hut his deaib was unexpected by any
atiacue of the Italian consulate, m which he tilled me position of secretary naUl 1857, when lie went to British Columbia ana engaged iv tne business of assayer. He only remained at It for a few yeais and returnrd to California, agaiu taking a position In i he Italian consulate. From that time on lie rilled various offices of bis Government until 1881, when he went Into journalism eniliely. Ha started the tii>t Italian paper in California, called LEctio della l’atn.i, and was also editoi of the illustrated l ■au i r, La Patria, ISefote coming to this country Federico Biesia was in the Italian army under Klnc diaries Albert, aud In the revolution of 1849 gained
considerable distinction in the service. At the battle of Novarra he was ihe l’«;irer of the mi I’oitani dispatches from the King to bis son. Yicioi Emanuel. For his .ictiou ou that occasion he was made a chevalier. The life of lederico Diesta was filled with work, and he passed away knowing, he had done every duty sei him.
Victor William Presco made several expiditions across the border and was good friends and partners with Americans who have been titled the “Mexican Mafia”. He smuggled Connie, his Mexican bride to be, over the border in a marijuana shipment, and it was his desire to make Connie’s eleven children his heirs, which he did, much to the consternation of Vicki who saw this a more grandstanding from a man who commanded attention everytime he walked into a room, and got it; for Victor was a Leo, a Lion-King in his own mind, and was forever conducting loyalty checks. I know he heard things from his mother. His cousin Bill was hoisted atop a great wall in Belmont at ten, and told to go get his stolen legacy. But, when one has lost a fortune, or a title, one quickly learns to not talk about it, as one can be titled “delusional” – especially when one has nothing to show for their royal adventures and contacts with the high and mighty. Vic was present when his daughter presented her portrait of Jimmy Stuart to the actor my father was mistaken for when he and Rosemary came out of a theater in Westwood, Vic just out of the Merchant Marines. This was the only male she rendered because of the striking resemblance. I do not know if Jimmy is a Stuart royal. But, Vic wore the same white suit Jimmy wore in the painting, and upon it was a large blazon. I asked Rosemary about it, and she said my father had paid a genealogist to research his background, and apparently he had found he was of a noble birth. He was very secretive about this. Christine may have known, for in our last conversation she spat this question at me; “You don’t know who I am!” I wondered at this, and answered; “Yes I do. You are my sister.
Like myself, Rosemary and Vic loved world history, and they were at peace when they conducted their long discussions about world events. This no doubt had a influence on their children, and the art of Rosamond, who revived realism in the 70s in regards to her portraits. And what is history without its portraits and busts of famous people? Rosamond was the model for many of the ‘Rosamond Women’. I consider my sister to be a new Pre-Raphaelite artist – and model – who had conversations with Joaquin Miller’s daughter on the phone, she known as the ‘White Witch’ of Oakland, and is not unlike the White Dame de Rougemont. Here is an account of Miller’s dinner with the Pre-Raphaelites.
The Habsburg Law (Habsburgergesetz (in full, the Law concerning the Expulsion and the Takeover of the Assets of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine) Gesetz vom 3. April 1919 betreffend die Landesverweisung und die Übernahme des Vermögens des Hauses Habsburg-Lothringen) was a law originally passed by the Constitutional Assembly (Konstituierende Nationalversammlung) of the Republic of German-Austria, one of the successor states of dissolvedAustria-Hungary, on 3 April 1919. The law dethroned the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as rulers of the country, which had declared itself a republic on 12 November 1918, exiled them and confiscated their property. The Habsburg Law was repealed in 1935 and the Habsburg family was given back its property. However, in 1938, following the Anschluss, the Nazis reintroduced the Habsburg Law, and it was retained when Austria regained its independence after World War II.
The Habsburg Law
The law has been found to violate human rights, and for this reason, Austria was forced to repeal large parts of it, notably the ban on members of the Habsburg family entering Austria, before being admitted to the European Union in 1995.[1] After a report by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) criticized the prohibition against members of the Habsburg family running for the Austrian presidency, this provision was also withdrawn in June 2011 by the Austrian parliament. Although the law still remains in force, it is considered largely obsolete, with the notable exception of the confiscation of the family’s property in force since 1938.[2]
Maximilian was captured on Cerro de las Campanas in May 1867, sentenced to death at a court martial, and executed, together with Generals Miguel Miramón and Tomás Mejía, on 19 June 1867.
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