House of JAN FLEMMER
Coming In From The Cold The Cape and subsequently South Africa was discovered on the way to Prester John and the murder of Count d’Almeida at the foot hills of Table Mountain. Whether above or below the Belt of Islam, North or South, in Britain or in Africa, Prester John is still the Last Guardian of the Holy Grail. What the legacy of King Arthur is to modern Britain, this is what Prester John once was for medieval Africa. He was the legendary priest-king of Ethiopia. After Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, King João II aka King John II wanted Francisco d’Almeida to sail west and claim the new territories for the Portuguese crown. How different history could have been if both the Americas had fallen to Portugal. Instead he went East via the south point of Africa. In 1510, when the Cape of Good Hope was called the Portal to the Indies, the Viceroy of Portuguese India was led ashore, slain and hurriedly buried. The murder of Dom Francisco de Almeida has invariably been blamed on the Khoikhoi. Based on new research, the outcomes of that research, offer a different account of the murder: that day changed South Africa's history, and from that point on: this is where our Coloured Flemmer Family history begins.
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