Secrets of the Treasure Bloodline, an Oak Island mystery

In August 1889 France lost one of its most gifted
19th century writers. Auguste de Villiers de l’Isle Adam, France’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe, had lived a life
of brilliance, poverty and the excesses typical of
the romantic age. He died penniless and
seemingly forgotten leaving behind little more
than his published works. But among his final
possessions was what he considered his life’s true achievement — an unfinished play titled Axel.

Axel tells the story of a noble family burdened
with guarding an ancient secret, a treasure of
unimaginable wealth, hidden for centuries beneath
their family crypt. Generation after generation.

I’m Corjan Mol, historical researcher and author of The Jerusalem Files with Christopher Morford. When
I first encountered Auguste’s story I assumed it was just a work of Gothic fiction. A dramatic
tale of hidden vaults and a dying bloodline, but the deeper I looked, the more I wondered. What if
it wasn’t just fiction, because Auguste de Villiers was the father of the final heir to a noble bloodline, one of
Europe’s most influential medieval families, the De Villiers. Auguste’s own father, a Knight of Malta,
had spent his entire life and the family fortune searching for the lost treasure of the Knights
of Malta, believing it had been hidden somewhere in France during the French Revolution. He never
found anything. Had he been looking in the wrong
place?

The story of Axel echoes the true history
of the De Villiers family, who led two of history’s most powerful military orders: the Knights Templar
and the Knights Hospitaller, later known as the Knights of Malta. At every turning point in their
survival, a De Villiers stood at the helm.

In 1187 during
the fall of Jerusalem Guillaume de Villiers was
second in command of the Knights Hospitaller. In 1291 during the fall of Acre, Gerard and
Jean de Villiers fought side by side as Templar
and Hospitaller leaders.

1302 the fall of Ruad, Gerard
De Villiers narrowly escapes.

1307 Paris, on the eve of the Templar arrests Gerard De Villiers flees with the
Templar treasure according to the sworn testimony by Jean de Châlons. Neither he nor the treasure is
heard from again.

1522 Rhodes, Grandmaster Philippe de Villiers de l’Isle Adam defends the island for
6 months against 100,000 Turks with just 600
Knights.

1530 Malta, the Knights establish their
final fortress securing their legacy and relics.

1632 Isaac de Razilly, son of Catherine de Villiers,
crosses the Atlantic and lands in LaHave, Nova
Scotia, just 20 miles from Oak Island. Two centuries
later one of the last of the Villiers family main branch writes Axel, the story of a noble house with Crusader origins
guarding a secret passed down for generations.

In Axel the treasure is hidden deep beneath the
earth sealed behind a secret
mechanism known only to the family. Inside the vault lies more than gold or jewels.

At the end of the room there’s a yellowed strip of parchment still sealed under mold, with a large
impression of red wax.

Given his father’s obsession, Auguste knew the treasure wasn’t in France. Had it
crossed the Atlantic with Isaac de Razilly? Or sometime
earlier? Had the family secret survived, hidden
somewhere in Nova Scotia?

The dates of artifacts
and structures found on Oak Island align with
the key moments in the De Villiers family stewardship of the Templars and the Knights of Malta.

Perhaps
we can read Auguste de Villiers’ final words in Axel as clues to an ancient treasure, one that might have a
direct connection to Nova Scotia and who knows Oak
Island.

When it comes to guarding your greatest
secrets who would you trust more than your own family?