Background
The scarcity of contemporary biographical detail about St. Germain (alongside his own apparent self-mythologising) has supported the construction of many versions of his origins and ancestry, but the most commonly attributed background are that he was:
- The son of Francis II Rákóczi, the Prince of Transylvania, by Rákóczi's first wife. Originally his name was Rákóczi Lipót Lajos György József Antal. In recent times this has been the most popular of the theories.
- The illegitimate son of Maria Anna of Neuburg, the widow of Charles II of Spain
- The Wandering Jew
Author Jean Overton-Fuller has done quite a bit of research on the Count's possible background.
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