The bishops' debate followed an earlier dispute at the Council of Pisa in 1409 on the subject of seniority, in age, of national Churches in Europe. The main contenders were England, France, and Spain. The case was ruled in favor of England, because the church at Glastonbury was founded by Joseph/James "statim post passionem Christi" (shortly after the Passion of Jesus). Henceforth, the monarch of France was entitled "His Most Christian Majesty," while in Spain the appellation was "His Most Catholic Majesty." The bitterly contested title of "His Most Sacred Majesty" was reserved for the King of England. Records of the debate - Disputatio super Dignitatem Angliae et Galliae in Concilio Constantiano - state that England won her case because the saint was not only granted land in the West Country by Arviragus, but was actually buried at Glastonbury. The possibility that the other Saint James (Boanerges, James the Greater) might have visited Spain at some stage was not relevant to the debate.

Having established that Joseph/James was buried at Glastonbury, we ought to look into how it is that the Cistercian "Estoire del Saint Graal" claims that he was buried "at the Abbey of Glais in Scotland." This is not as contradictory as it seems, for at the time of Joseph's death the Scots Gaels had not settled in the Western Highland (Dalriada) but constituted a tribal population of Northern Ireland (Ulster) who had infiltrated the southwest of Britain.

The West Country areas settled by the early Scots were often referred to as "Scotland" (land of the Scots), when the far north of Britain was called "Caledonia." Furthermore, the word "glais," so common in old Scots names, comes from the Irish (Goidelic) Celtic, and means "stream or rivulet." "Douglas," for example, derives from "dubh glais" (dark stream). Early Glastonbury was set amid watery marshland, and was called the Isle of Glais. Thus, Joseph's said burial place at the "Abbey of Glais" actually referred quite correctly to the Abbey at Glastonbury.

In the 1st century, mainland Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland) was generally known as Albion. The Irish called it Alba, a name which was later restricted to the Scottish north after the Irish Sctos had settled in the Western Highlands of Dalriada. By the 900s, Alba had been adapted to Albany, and the alternative name, Scotland (for Scotia), emerged about a century later.

LORDSHIP OF THE GRAIL

Sir Laurence Gardner and others like him, including Barbara Thiering believe that the "Joseph" distinction (Hebrew "Yosef", meaning "he shall add") was conferred on the eldest son of each generation of the Davidic generation. When a dynastic son of the House of Judah (by whatever personal name) succeeded to become the "David," his eldest son (the Crown Prince) became the "Joseph" (with the meaning of "he shall add" denoting his royal heirship). If there was no son at the time of a Davidic accession (or if the son was under 16 years old), then the eldest brother of the David would temporarily hold the Joseph distinction. It would be relinquished to the senior line if and when a son was of age to inherit the style.

(Author's Note: God has shown me differently. He has shown me that the Joseph is the second son of a Messianic, or Davidic family, and is the Gabriel-Abiathar. This is who James was, the Crown Prince after his brother Jesus, who was the Davidic king from his birth because his father was deceased. The eldest son is always the David, or Melchizedek (Michael-Zadok). This is who Jesus was. This is the real meaning of the Crown Prince.)