1840 - 1902
Demetrius Rhodocanakis
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| Birthday |
3rd December, 1840
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| Birthplace |
Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece
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| Died |
2nd September, 1902
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| Place of Death |
Ermoupoli, Syros, Greece
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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Demetrius Rhodocanakis (Greek: Δημήτριος Ῥοδοκανάκης, Dēmētrios Rhodokanakēs; 3 December 1840 – 2 September 1902) was a London-based 19th-century Greek merchant, forger and pretender. Demetrius was the last great Byzantine pretender, claiming to be a prince directly descended from the Palaiologos dynasty of the Byzantine Empire from the 1860s onwards, and then the rightful Emperor of Constantinople, as Demetrios II Dukas Angelos Komnenos Palaiologos Rhodokanakis, from 1895 to his death. Though he lost support after 1895 due to his claims of Byzantine descent having been exposed as forgeries, Demetrius was at one point widely recognized as a Byzantine prince, achieving the recognition of not only the British Foreign Office, but also Pope Pius IX.
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