Is the Medici Family the original "Pawn Stars"?
The Medici Family allegedly was exiled from Florence never to be seen again. Look at the similarities between their family seal and the "pawn" symbol. Do you really think a family with excess of 100 Billion dollars could just disappear off the face of the earth?
Lorenza de'Medici is the only modern person to have kept the family name. She is a chef and cook book writer. We know the Family also married into Napoleon's in France and other empires in Europe. Gone in one form, but still very much around....
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The Black Mass was apparently invented by Catherine de Medici and practiced as a kind of bizarre party gag in the court of Louis XIV, but things degenerated and culminated in the horrific Affair of the Poisons.
The Affair of the Poisons (L'affaire des poisons) was a major murder scandal in France which took place in 1677–1682, during the reign of King Louis XIV. During it, a number of prominent members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcraft. The scandal reached into the inner circle of the king.
16th century: Catherine de' Medici, the Queen of France, was said by Jean Bodin to have performed a Black Mass, based on a story in his book on witchcraft, De la démonomanie des sorciers. In spite of its lurid details, there is little outside evidence to back up his story.
Caterina de' Medici transfers commenda of Saint-Lazare from the Knights of Malta to the Duchy of Savoy; congratulations on the birth of Filippo de' Medici.
The Black Nobility or Black Aristocracy (Italian: "nobiltà nera" or "aristocrazia nera") are Roman aristocratic families who sided with the Papacy under Pope Pius IX after the Savoy family-led army of the Kingdom of Italy entered Rome on September 20, 1870, overthrew the Pope and the Papal States, and took over the Quirinal Palace, and any nobles subsequently ennobled by the Pope prior to the 1929 Lateran Treaty. For the next 59 years, the Pope confined himself to Vatican City and claimed to be a prisoner in the Vatican to avoid the appearance of accepting the authority of the new Italian government and state. Aristocrats who had been ennobled by the Pope and were formerly subjects of the Papal states, including the senior members of the Papal Court, kept the doors of their palaces in Rome closed to mourn the Pope's confinement, which led to their being called the "Black Nobility".
http://vatican.com/prayers/5922/sign-protest-of-black-mass-oklahoma-city — in Oklahoma City, OK.