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The Lost Crown - Chapter 1

The Night Before the Arrest

The knight's name was Gaufred de Montbrun, and he had known for eleven days that he was going to be arrested.

Published April 9, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 2

The Psalter of Mas-Dieu

The man who found it was not looking for it.

Published April 16, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 3

The Archive, Late

The Vatican Apostolic Archive closes at five o'clock in the afternoon.

Published April 23, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 4

The Archivist of Barcelona

Pere Camprubí received the package on a Tuesday in June of 1891 and set it aside until Thursday.

Published April 30, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 5

What Ockham Began

This chapter has no documents.

Published May 7, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 6

The Vendée, 1793

What follows is drawn from two sources: a parish register from Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, and a deposition taken in 1796 from one Marie-Anne F...

Published May 14, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 7

Prague, 1942

What follows is drawn from a set of handwritten notes found inside a chalice case in the possession of Teodor Maren at his death, and from a...

Published May 21, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 8

The Letter from Rome, 2023

What follows is a recovered email correspondence between Teodor Maren and Dr. Mara Leclerc of the Vatican Apostolic Archive, conducted betwe...

Published May 28, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 9

The Dissolution, 1540

What follows is reconstructed from three sources: a letter from Prior Edmund Holt of Rievaulx to an unknown recipient, dated October 1539; a...

Published June 4, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 10

The Reasonable Age

What follows is drawn from the working journal of Father Sébastien Renard, SJ, kept between 1748 and 1771, recovered from the library of the...

Published June 11, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 11

The Keeping of the Hours

What follows is drawn from the administrative records of the Abbey of Inden, near Aachen, covering the years 816 to 823, and from a brief me...

Published June 18, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 12

The Recovery

What follows is drawn from a set of acquisition records and internal correspondence recovered from the archive of the Société des Amis de la...

Published June 25, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 13

The New World

I have placed this chapter here in the record deliberately.

Published July 2, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 14

The Thin Place

This chapter is the most uncertain in the record.

Published July 9, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 15

The American Thread

I did not know, when I arrived in Alton in 1948, that the record was already here.

Published July 16, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 16

The Toledo Keeper

What follows is drawn from the marginalia of a theological commentary held in a private collection in Madrid, photographed in July 2026 by a...

Published July 23, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 17

The Other Side, 1938

What follows is drawn from a set of internal documents recovered from the archive of an organization calling itself the Institut pour l'Etud...

Published July 30, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 18

The Argument

What follows is drawn from a manuscript in the Alton library, catalogued by Teodor Maren as: partial treatise, Latin, late thirteenth centur...

Published August 6, 2026 The Lost Crown - Chapter 19

The Kraków Thread

What follows is drawn from two sources: a household journal kept by the Baranski family of Kraków between 1863 and 1921, and a deposition ta...

Published August 13, 2026