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Le tremblement de terre à Mortara,
Cassich saint George à demy perfondrez,
Paix assoupie, la guerre esuctilera,
Dans temple à Pasques abismes en fondrez.
Saint George is an obvious reference to England which took that ancient saint as its patron saint. Many have predicted the sinking of part, or all, of England. In the 93rd quatrain of the 5th century, Nostradamus indicates an Isle of Scotland. So, this has to refer to the future; hopefully, centuries in the future.
Before people say this is impossible, let me remind reader that we live on a very unstable crust that moves, rises and falls. Lisbon once endured an earthquake where part of the city dropped several hundred feet – what remains still sits out in the waters. The earth can be violent. The sinking of England is possible, as is the sinking of any land mass.
De fin porphire profond collon trouvee,
Dessoubs la laze escriptz capitolin :
Os poil retors Romain force prouvee,
Classe agiter au port de Methelin.
A porphyry is a drawn tree that shows a hierarchical ontology. It comes from Porphyry, a 3rd century Greek who wrote a most important introduction to Aristotle’s Categories. The Capitoline is one of the seven hills of ancient Rome. I cannot find Methelin, but there is a Metheglin, which is mead – however, I doubt we are talking about a harbor of mead. More on this I cannot say. This must refer to the future.
Hercules Roy de Rome & d’Annemarc,
De Gaule trois Guion surnommé,
Trembler l’Itale & the un de sainct Marc,
Premier sut tous monarque renommé.
Hercules can only refer to an individual who had the equivalent of the legendary labors of Hercules. Annemark is a reference to either Denmark or Bohemia. The one of Saint Mark on line 3 is a reference to Venice, whose patron saint is Saint Mark, the gospel writer and secretary to Saint Peter and where the Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco (Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark) is located.
This almost was fulfilled by Napoléon Bonaparte, in fact if he had conquered Denmark or Bohemia, he would have. He was a fierce, herculian defender of France throughout the entire time he was in power – though he did cause a few of the wars he fought in, it must be stated that the rest of Europe also caused a number of the conflicts and almost none of the monarchies were happy until a Bourbon was on the throne of France again. He was the defacto King of Rome after he removed Pope Pius VII from the Holy See, and caused Venice to tremble several times. While Denmark remained fiercely independent of France and Bohemia remained under Austrian control, Austria became an ally of France during the great invasion of Russia in 1813.
When Nostradamus put together the pieces of future history he saw, it is very likely he made a mistake and assumed that either Denmark or Bohemia would become part the French Empire. An error on his part, but a close one. The rest of the quatrain is so specific to Napoléon and his empire, this quatrain can refer to nobody else.
Not quite a perfectly accurate prediction, but close enough that it is known what it refers to and the error is, under the circumstances, perfectly understandable.
Le part soluz mary sera mittré,
Retour conflict passera sur le thuille :
Mar cinq cens un trahyr sera tiltré,
Narbon & Saulce par coutaux avons d’huille.
Note on Translation: A tuille is a piece of armor that covers the thigh.
The name of Mary on line 1 is a giveaway as to whom this quatrain is for. In another quatrain, he uses the exact same name to refer to the same woman. It is not a mistake that he used the English name of Mary instead of the French name of Marie; he met Mary and knew her personally when she was married to the Dauphin of France. This is about Mary, Queen of Scots.
The time concerned is the time between June 1584 and February 1587. The tie in is based on line 4. Narbonne and Saulce are in southern France. At the time, they were under the control of Henri III and supported Henri de Navarre, who was now the heir to the French Throne. He had become the heir due to the death of François, Duke de Anjou & Alençon, brother of Henri III. So it could not have occurred before June 1584.
The other three lines concern Mary and her time in England. At this time, she was in the custody of Amias Paulet, the governor of Jersey, the Channel Isle closest to France. Mary was given some leeway in her movement. Yet, her movement was restricted and she was considered a pariah in England due to a prior plot she was involved in against her cousin Elizabeth. The Mitre she wore was her headgear. She assumed it when her husband, Francis II of France, died, well before this quatrain started. She never took it off, until the day of her execution.
The final plot, the Babington Plot, seems to have involved over 100 men. It could easily have been close to 500. Mary was definitely involved. The plot was discovered and foiled, which would result in several executions, the final one being the execution of Mary herself. She was the one entitled, in the thoughts of the traitors and other Catholics in England, to be the lawful and true ruler, not Elizabeth.
True to the second line, Spain was arming for the invasion of England. The Spanish Armada was being built. The classical armor of the knight was being rejected. While the breastplate was still accepted, the leg and arm armor had been rejected by the Spanish and was being rejected by the English as well. The eye of Nostradamus was quite accurate.
Et Ferdinand blonde sera descorte,
Quitter la fleur suyure le Macedon,
Au grand besoing defaillira sa routte,
Et marchera contra le Myrmidon.
The Greek flavor of the quatrain is beyond a doubt. But that it is not a Greek is made evident by the fourth line. In the Iliad, the Myrmidons are the soldiers of Macedonia which sided with the Greeks in the Trojan War. So, we have a foreigner named Ferdinand who first sides with Greece, but then later opposes Greece, especially when Greece has at least part of Macedonia. There is one and only one who fits the quatrain’s criteria.
The Ferdinand in question was the Prince of Bulgaria. He obtained this distinction when his predecessor, Alexander, abdicated. But when he assumed the crown in 1886, he was definitely tied to the flower known as the Ottoman Empire, a fact which he did not like.
In 1908, he took advantage of the struggle of the Young Turks in order to “detach” Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire. He declared himself Czar of Bulgaria, increasing his prestige. Without a shot being fired, the Turks capitulated. In this, he “followed the Macedonian”, the Greeks who had already revolted and achieved their liberty.
In 1912, he sided with the Greeks and allied with Serbia and Montenegro against the Turks. The four were victorious over the Turks, although some of the gains the four nations won were lost when the great powers insisted on the creation of the state of Albania.
The next year, he was opposed to the Greeks, attacking them, the Serbs and the Montenegrins. This time, the Turks joined the other three countries and Bulgaria suffered a humiliating defeat.
Ferdinand was not finished fighting the Myrmidons though. In 1915, he joined the Central Powers. Greece joined the Entente in 1917 and made its presence felt. Everything went against Ferdinand, who in 1918 was forced to abdicate.
Un grand Roy prins entre le mains d’un jeune,
Non loing de Pasque confusion coup cultre :
Perpet. captifs temps que fouldre en la hune,
Lors que trois freres le blesseront & murtre.
Note on Translation: Perpet is an abbreviation, but of what word. Perpétration? Perpétuation? Perpétuel? Perpétellement? Perpétuer? Perpétuité? Or another? I chose perpétuel, or eternal, mainly because it seemed to fit the best, though with the meanings of the words so similar, it would not surprise me that they almost all apply. It would also not surprise me to find out that something else is what is meant.
I considered the Three Henri’s of France, namely Henri III, Henri IV and Henri duc de Guise, all desiring the throne of France. However, both Henri duc de Guise and Henry III were killed during a time relatively far from Easter. I also considered the three brothers from the Epistle to Henri, but King Louis XVI was also imprisoned and executed at a time far from Easter. I am therefore forced to conclude that this refers to an event in the future.
Pont & molins en Decembre versez,
En si haut lieu montera la Garonne :
Murs, edifices, Tholose renuersez,
Qu’on ne sçaura son lieu autant matronne.
The Garonne River runs by Toulouse. This is a quatrain that seems to indicate that in the future the Garonne River will flood the city, at least to the center of it.
En Arbissel à Veront & Carcarí,
De nuict conduitz pour Savonne attraper,
Le visz Gascon Turbi, & la Scerry
Derrier mur vieux & neuf palais gripper.
Carcari is in Sicily. La Turbie is in France near the Italian border. Savona is in Italy, not far from the French border. I could not find the other three places though, yet Veront could be Verona, Italy and Carcari could be Carcasone, though I have reason to doubt both. Arbissel has me completely confused. However, taking the feel of the quatrain, I am of the opinion that it was fulfilled when La Turbie was part of Savoy. The part about the Gascon seems to indicate the War of the Spanish Succession; Villars was a Gascon.
Pres de Quintin dans la forest bourlis,
Dans l’abbaye seront Flamens ranches,
Les deux puisnais de coups my estourdis
Suitte oppressee & garde tous aches.
The Flemish are the people of the Netherlands and Belgium. Quentin is obviously the city of Saint Quentin, an important French city not far from the Belgium border. This quatrain seems to talk about a disaster to the Flemish.
My thinking takes me towards the First World War, though the War of the Spanish Succession could be a candidate. However, the details about the abbey and the two younger sons, which I have no clue about, prevent me from saying that yes this refers to the one or the other.