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The claims made in ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' have been the source of much investigation and criticism over the years, with many independent investigators such as ''[[60 Minutes]]'', ''[[Channel 4]]'', ''[[Discovery Channel]]'', ''[[Time Magazine]]'', and the [[BBC]] concluding that many of the book's claims are not credible or verifiable.
Pierre Plantard stated on the Jacques Pradel radio interview on 'France-Inter', 18 February 1982:{{cquote|I admit that ''The Sacred Enigma'' (French title for ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'') is a good book, but one must say that there is a part that owes more to fiction than to fact, especially in the part that deals with the lineage of Jesus. How can you prove a lineage of four centuries from Jesus to the Merovingians? I have never put myself forward as a descendant of Jesus Christ.<ref>Cited by {{cite journal |first=Philippe |last=de Cherisey |title=Jesus Christ, his wife and the Merovingians |journal=Nostra - Bizarre News |number=584 |year=1983}}</ref>}}
There are no references to the [[Jesus bloodline]] in the "[[Priory of Sion]] documents" and the link exists only within the context of a hypothesis made by the authors of ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail''. From the ''Conspiracies On Trial: The Da Vinci Code'' documentary:{{cquote|The authors of the 1980s bestseller ''The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' re-interpreted the Dossiers in the light of their own Biblical obsessions – the secret buried in the documents ceased to be the Merovingian bloodline and became the bloodline of Christ – the genealogies led to Christ's descendants.<ref name="Trial 2005"/>}}
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