Category: History - Other
INTRODUCTION THE FALSE SMERDIS OF PERSIA THE FALSE ANTIOCHUS OF SYRIA THE FALSE ALEXANDER BALAS OF SYRIA THE FALSE PHILIP OF MACEDON THE FALSE ALEXANDER OF JERUSALEM THE FALSE NERO OF ROME THE FALSE CLOTAIRE THE SECOND OF FRANCE THE FALSE CLOVIS THE THIRD OF FRANCE THE FALSE S...
Bordeaux sustained a siege of some weeks on the pretender's account, but during the whole of that time traitors in and out of the city were bargaining for his betrayal. At last,...
8. Part 8Shuiski, the leader of the revolution, was raised to the throne, but finding the memory of his predecessor still cherished by many, he sought to eradicate the feeling by proving...
10. Part 10During this period of almost absolute power, the prince had written home to his family, whilst the Marquis de Caylus sent a special messenger to Europe to detail what had happen...
13. Part 13Of all the tawdry fictions invented by pretenders to the name and title of "Louis the Seventeenth," none are so ridiculous as the tale told by the Meves family, if that really b...
11. Part 11Everything appeared to corroborate this most extraordinary circumstance; it was some time before he could walk without stumbling; he appeared to have no control over his limbs;...
6. Part 6The fate of the leading conspirators in Lambert Simnel's case, instead of acting as a warning to deter others from similar attacks, really appeared as if it were only designed a...
2. Part 2The pretender was not ignorant of the great value of Jonathan's services, and by means of greater presents and more flattering promises managed to withdraw him from an alliance...
5. Part 5Moreover, one historian shows from contemporary records that by the Electoral College of Germany Voldemar was still believed to be alive in 1338, sixteen years after his alleged...
9. Part 9The story of this pseudo prince is no less romantic than those of the other claimants mentioned in this work, but it differs from most of them inasmuch as the hero of it was an...
7. Part 7No claimant's case is more remarkable than that of Don Sebastian of Portugal, exhibiting, as it does, the tenacity of tradition; for, although more than two hundred years had el...
12. Part 12Hitherto the claimants to the dignities and name of the deceased Dauphin were persons of low origin, and with little or no pretensions to education. But the next pretender to be...
4. Part 4The Countess Jean was at this time harassed by different feuds, domestic and foreign, and a portion of her more martially disposed subjects, wearied of female rule, received the...
1. Part 1INTRODUCTION THE FALSE SMERDIS OF PERSIA THE FALSE ANTIOCHUS OF SYRIA THE FALSE ALEXANDER BALAS OF SYRIA THE FALSE PHILIP OF MACEDON THE FALSE ALEXANDER OF JERUSALEM THE FALSE N...
14. Part 14So thoroughly were the "Princess Olive's" royal claims ventilated that, it is averred, she was entertained at the civic banquet at the Guildhall, on the 9th of November, 1820, a...