"Holy Blood" redirects here. For the folk metal band, see Holy Blood . The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a pseudohistorical controversial book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, which was based in large part on Pierre Plantard?s Priory of Sion hoax. The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London, as an unofficial follow-up to three BBC TV documentaries being part of the Chronicle series (Roy Davies, who directed the television documentaries, distanced himself away from the book, and asked the authors to remove his photographs that they had used without his permission in their book). A sequel to the book, called The Messianic Legacy, was published in 1986. The original work was reissued in an illustrated hardcover version in 2005. One of the books, according to the authors,

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