Oldest Tarotcards. Origin of Tarot. Research of the history of Tarot.

<div id="root" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:664px;height:824px"> <div style="position:absolute;left:114;top:90;width:501;height:640;"> <table width=501 height=640 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign="top"> <td><span style="font-size:14">Rene d'Anjou (1408 -1480), wrote and painted books, was in Italy from 1438 - 1442 and 1453/54 as concurrent of Alfonso d'Aragon to the throne of the kingdom of Naples, became then friend to Cosimo de Medici, Francesco Sforza and Jacopo Antonio Marcello, was called beside many other titles King of Jerusalem, is called an esoteric grandmaster in the Rennes-de-Chateaux papers,  is part of "Esoteric History".<br><br>Rene is said to have accompanied (perhaps) Jeanne d'Arc, a story, which is in doubt. Also it is said, that he induced Cosimo de Medici to build the first public library in 1444 at </span><a href="http://www.arca.net/db/musei/laurenzb.htm"><span style="font-size:14">San Marco</span></a><span style="font-size:14"> in Florence  (Cosimo had reasons enough to do so by his own interests).<br><br>Renes first wife Isabelle de Lorraine (ca. 1405 - 1453) received a famous </span><a href="http://www.oocities.org/autorbis/marcello1.html"><span style="font-size:14">parcel </span></a><span style="font-size:14">with two pack of cards from Jacopo Antonio Marcello in 1449. <br>Lorraine with its capital Nancy is located rather near to the Oberrhein, a center of German playing card production; the distance between Nancy - Strasbourg is about 80 km; Lorraine belongs at that time to the Holy Roman Empire, not to France (</span><a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/france_1453_shepherd.jpg"><span style="font-size:14">map</span></a><span style="font-size:14">).<br><br>1496: Rene II, a later duke of Lorraine, played with "triumphe" cards according to his account book from 1495/96. "Au Roy, le 29 avril pour jouer audit triumphe a Vezelise deux francs. Encore audit seigneur roy le 1 Mai pour jouer audit triumphe a Vezelise deux florins d'or." <br>Perhaps this is a rather late reflection to the letter of Marcello of 1449.<br> <br><br></span><a href="http://www.oocities.org/autorbis/marcello1.html"><span style="font-size:14">Renes relation to Tarocchi history<br></span></a><a href="http://www.oocities.org/autorbis/rene_marcello.html"><span style="font-size:14">Literary Relationship between Rene and Marcello</span></a><span style="font-size:14"><br><br></span><a href="http://www.guice.org/renendex.html"><span style="font-size:14">- King Rene (very nice site) with biographical data and works</span></a><span style="font-size:14"><br></span><a href="http://www.loire-france.com/personnalites/politiques/roi-rene.htm"><span style="font-size:14">- short biography (in French) together with other biographies<br></span></a><a href="http://www.craigsweb.com/anjou.htm"><span style="font-size:14">- alternative biography</span></a><a href="http://www.loire-france.com/personnalites/politiques/roi-rene.htm"><span style="font-size:14"><br></span></a><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08361a.htm"><span style="font-size:14">- Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem</span></a><span style="font-size:14"><br></span><a href="http://www.dagobertsrevenge.com/index.html?articles"><span style="font-size:14">- Dagobert's Revenge - about Holy Grail and Rennes-de-Chateaux </span></a><span style="font-size:14"><br></span><a href="http://smithpp0.tripod.com/psp/idx.html"><span style="font-size:14">- Rennes-des-Chateaux papers from Paul Smith - background information<br></span></a><a href="http://www.alpheus.org/html/articles/centennial/1.html"><span style="font-size:14">- Alpheus, Esoteric history</span></a><span style="font-size:14"><br><br></span><a href="http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-claude.colrat/anjou.htm"><span style="font-size:14"><br></span></a><a href="http://members.aol.com/hywwebsite/private/joanofarc.html"><span style="font-size:14">- Joan of arc archive (very nice site) with extensive biographical data, which doesn't care too much about Rene d'Anjou<br></span></a><a href="http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/orleans.htm"><span style="font-size:14">- Siege of Orleans<br></span></a><a href="http://www.arca.net/db/musei/laurenzb.htm"><span style="font-size:14">- about the public library in San Marco sponsored by Cosimo<br></span></a><a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/france_1453_shepherd.jpg"><span style="font-size:14">- map of France in 1453</span></a></td> </tr></table></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:110;top:33;width:508;height:38;"> <table width=508 height=38 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign="top"> <td><b><i><font size="+2"><span style="font-size:24">Rene d'Anjou   </span></font></b></i><b><i><font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-size:14">- page is under construction</span></font></b></i></td> </tr></table></div> <div style="position:absolute;left:94;top:728;width:558;height:45;"> <table width=558 height=45 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign="top"> <td bgcolor="#CCCCFF" align="center"><i><font color="#0000FF" size="-1"><span style="font-size:12">Links on this page do lead to foreign resources. 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