False Pretenders
A number of individuals have claimed to be princes who disappeared or died under somewhat mysterious circumstances:
- Anna Anderson, who was one of several persons who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia
- Bertrand of Rais, who claimed to be Baldwin I of Constantinople
- Lambert Simnel, who claimed to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick
- Perkin Warbeck, who claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York
- Yemelyan Pugachev, who claimed to be Peter III of Russia
- Two of the three false Dimitris of Russia:(False Dmitriy I actually reigned as Czar for over a year prior to his execution):
- False Dmitriy II
- False Dmitriy III
- Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, who was one of over thirty persons who claimed to be Louis XVII of France
- Kaspar Hauser, who was claimed to be the stillborn son of Karl, Grand Duke of Baden
- False Margaret, who claimed to be Margaret, Maid of Norway
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