Rulers, countries, emperors, and monarchs … This constitutes the main theme of the Centuries. Many Interpreters pretend that Henry the II whom Nostradamus refers to in the epistle to Henry is a future Great Monarch. But it is just as possible that the Great Monarch correspond to some past or unknown head of state.
The criteria for regrouping the quatrains are based on some identified keywords.
King Henry II
"Maybe this is the only real "Great Monarch" of the Centuries."
H001 Very-Christian-Henry
TO THE MOST INVINCIBLE MOST POWERFUL AND MOST CHRISTIAN HENRY, KING OF FRANCE THE SECOND: MICHEL NOSTRADAMUS, HIS VERY HUMBLE AND VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT AND SUBJECT, WISHES VICTORY AND HAPPINESS
H002 Very-Christian-Henry
Ever since my long-beclouded face first presented itself before the immeasurable deity of your Majesty, O Most Christian and Most Victorious King, I have remained perpetually dazzled by that sovereign sight. I have never ceased to honor and venerate properly that date when I presented myself before a Majesty so singular and so humane.
H116 Most serene
But I shall only beseech you, Most Clement King, by this singular and prudent humanity of yours, to understand rather the desire of my heart, and the sovereign wish I have to obey Your Most Serene Majesty, ever since my eyes approached your solar splendor, than the grandeur of my labor can attain to or acquire. From Salon, this 27th of June, 1558.
Future sovereigns
Great Monarch, Daughter of the Great Monarch.
A6304 Debates, Rome
Princes and Christendom stirred up in debates,
Foreign nobles, Christ's Seen molested:
Become very evil, much good, mortal sight.
Death in the East, plague, famine, evil treaty.
1.69 Great mountains, floods
"The great mountain, seven stadia round,"
"after peace, war, famine, flooding."
"It will spread far, drowning great countries,"
even antiquities and their mighty foundations.
1.99 Great sovereign
The great king will join
"with two kings, united in friendship."
How the great household will sigh:
around Narbon what pity for the children.
2.69 Great monarchy - King Celtic not bourbon
The Gallic King through his Celtic right arm
Seeing the discord of the great Monarchy:
"He will cause his scepter to flourish over the three parts,"
Against the cope of the great Hierarchy.
4.97 Great sovereign
"The year that Mercury, Mars, Venus in retrogression,"
The line of the great Monarch will not fail:
"Elected by the Portuguese people near Cadiz,"
One who will come to grow very old in peace and reign.
5.38 Great sovereign - daughter of the Great sovereign
He who will succeed the great monarch on his death
Will lead an illicit and wanton life:
"Through nonchalance he will give way to all,"
So that in the end the Salic law will fail.
1.4 Sovereign by the universe
In the world there will be made a king
who will have little peace and a short life.
"At this time the ship of the Papacy will be lost,"
governed to its greatest detriment.
2.28 Prophet
The penultimate of the surname of the Prophet
Will take Diana [Thursday] for his day and rest:
"He will wander far because of a frantic head,"
And delivering a great people from subjection.
Posted by: Optimus
Hypohesis that states that the prophet is the sovereign.
9.33 First sovereign
"Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark,"
"With the surname of the chief of triple Gaul,"
"Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble,"
First monarch renowned above all.
H038 Sovereign, crown legitimacy
The one second in age, accompanied by the Latins, will penetrate far, until a second furious and trembling path has been beaten to the Great St. Bernard Pass. From there he will descend to mount the Pyrenees, which will not, however, be transferred to the French crown. And this third one will cause a great inundation of human blood, and for a long time Lent will not include March.
9.90 King of kings
A captain of Great Germany
Will come to deliver through false help
"To the King of Kings the support of Pannonia,"
So that his revolt will cause a great flow of blood.
A6100 King of kings
The king not from the Sweet two-faced one, (unknkown place / maybe a village)
The pestilent year, the moved adolescent
To hold the one that holds, the Great not here (not from Paris),
And will pass the term of the Capetians:
H004 Sovereign eye
But I saw how obviously impossible it was for me to declare myself. While I was seized with this singular desire to be transported suddenly from my long-beclouded obscurity to the illuminating presence of the first monarch of the universe,
H005 Aim of the writing
I was also long in doubt as to whom I would dedicate these last three Centuries of my prophecies, making up the thousand.
H006 Destination of the writing
After having meditated for a long time on an act of such rash audacity, I have ventured to address Your Majesty. I have not been daunted like those mentioned by that most grave author Plutarch, in his Life of Lycurgus, who were so astounded at the expense of the offerings and gifts brought as sacrifices to the temples of the immortal gods of that age, that they did not dare to present anything at all.
H007 Royal splendid
Seeing your royal splendor to be accompanied by such an incomparable humanity, I have paid my address to it and not as those Kings of Persia whom one could neither stand before nor approach.
H008 Very wise king
It is to a most prudent and most wise Prince that I have dedicated my nocturnal and prophetic calculations, which are composed rather out of a natural instinct, accompanied by a poetic furor, than according to the strict rules of poetry.
A6506 Many Great sovereigns
Emptiness so much male as female,
The great Monarchs life to decline,
Plague, war, hunger, great danger all in one,
Trouble by changes, small Greats to stir up.
Suicide
Accidental death or suicide of the Great Monarch.
8.79 Suicide or accidental death of a king
"He who loses his father by the sword, born in a Nunnery,"
upon this Gorgon's blood will conceive anew;
"in a strange land he will do everything to be silent,"
he who will burn both himself and his child.
9.57 Suicide or accidental death of a king
"In the place of Drux a King will rest,"
And will look for a law changing Anathema:
"While the sky will thunder so very loudly,"
New entry the King will kill himself.
2.15 Sovereign killed (the French term could mean suicided)
"Shortly before the monarch is assassinated,"
"Castor and Pollux in the ship, bearded star:"
"The public treasure emptied by land and sea,"
"Pisa, Asti, Ferrara, Turin land under interdict."
