Nostradamus C5 Q60: Bernardin de Baux as an early patron of Nostradamus.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

In the Alpilles, a few kilometres from St Remy, Provence, where Nostradamus was born, there is today the restored ruins of a hill fort called Les Baux.

At the time of Nostradamus' early years the castle and town were still intact ,and the Baron of Baux was the corsair named Bernardin ( ndra bien) des Baux (died 1527).

This man held extensive properties in Marseille ( mal eſlire), and it was his garden in which at a later date (1533) Catherine de Medici and Henry II were married.

Catherine and Henri were only fourteen at the time, but over the next twenty years she had a fascination for Nostradamus' prophecies about her family.

And throughout this period the Medici family, with its base in Italy, was one of the most powerful in the world. Its assets included its major banking base in Tuscany, a land which in ancient time had been called Etruria ( ur et rai).

It is anagrams such as those in the foregoing introduction that classify this verse as one about people in Nostradamus' life and particularly those who were his patrons and associates.

The reference in the above analysis appear in other verses and their presence adds striking evidence of Nostaradamus' claims  to his seeing the future.