Family secrets abound in the world of top-level Freemasonry, and here’s a bit of my family history.
My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Stephen Butterfield moved his family to English Canada in 1777, loyalists to Britain and Baphomet worship. His grandson, John Martin Butterfield, started the Genessee, Michigan “killing factory” in 1852.
Stephen Butterfield was a descendant of Benjamin Butterfield II (actually IV), who stowed away aboard the James in 1637 along with his brother Samuel Butterfield and emigrated to Massachusetts from their home in Halifax, Ovenden, Yorkshire, England. Their great-great-great-great-grandfather was Richard Botevile, or Richard the Lion-Hearted.
(Given that there’s no evidence being presented here that isn’t circumstantial, this post and the others like this are an exercise in hypothesizing for entertainment purposes only, whether or not the accounts presented correspond to real, not-fictional events.)
The Botevyles were descendants of Geoffroi Martel d’Angoulême, whose family was cut in four pieces in front of him, and was kept alive as an amusement, prisoner on the family property in Church Stretton, Shropshire, England. His family, who owned the Duchy of Angoulême, had fallen on financial hard times, and sold the Duchy to Joseph II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who arranged a marriage between young Geoffroi and a lovely damsel, only to ambush and slaughter the Martel family. This event was the inspiration for the “Red Wedding” in Game of Thrones.
Geoffroi was a descendant of the Charlemagne and the Frankish kings, who conquered Europe and England. They were descendants of Marcomir, the Frankish chief born in 220 AD, Roman Emporer Julius Caesar, Iullus, the kings of Alba Longa, and the line of Roman patricians that includes Zeus, c. 8,753 BC according to the Frankish records.
John Martin Butterfield’s grandson eventually inherited the family killing farm. Maurice Stanley Butterfield was also known to the world as Aleister Crowley.
The photo on the right in the featured image above is from the Ancestry.com entry for Maurice Stanley Butterfield, who is my great-grandfather. The photo on the left, is of a young Aleister Crowley.
Maurice was killed in 1947, which is the date reported for Crowley’s death. He had put razor blades inside caramel-covered candy apples, which led to the deaths of two black children and one parent. He and one of his sons were killed by a sheriff’s deputy on the family property in Genessee. The publicly-listed date for Maurice’s death is 1972.
