Prince Henry Sinclair

Many Templars survived prosecution by going underground. Part of the fleet sailed to Portugal where the Templars simply took another name. The balance of the fleet set sail for Scotland where the Scottish independence movement provided an excellent cover. The Templars would repay their Scottish guardians by defeating the English at Bannockburn a few short years later.

The most powerful family in Scotland was the Sinclairs. Their ancestral lands in the isles provided a safe haven for the Templar fleet. Their fortress at Roslin, a repository for the treasure. The Sinclairs became the guardians of the remnant Templar organization.

The Templars hid secrets at well. At a time when the church of Rome was the sole authority on everything, merely suggesting lands over the ocean could lead to punishment by the Inquisition. Science therefore was a crime. In Portugal, Prince Henry the Navigator flying the Templar Red Cross set out to find a route to India. In Scotland, another Henry, dubbed Prince Henry Sinclair set sail for Nova Scotia. He "discovered" that land in June of 1398, almost a hundred years before Columbus.

He decided to build a settlement there, however, war in Scotland took his time and ultimately his life. The knowledge of their secret land was passed from father to son. When the English threatened their Roslin castle, the Sinclairs brought their treasure to Nova Scotia. The Oak Island pit was excavated in 1436. For the next hundred years it was improved upon until the head of the Clan Sinclair left Scotland forever, disappearing from history.