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About Eugenio Lascorz
- Eugenio Lascorz y Labastida (26 March 1886 - 1 June 1962) was a pretender who claimed connection to several dynasties of the Byzantine Empire.
- Eugenio Lascorz was born in Zaragoza.
- His father was a laborer. The Aragonese family name Lascorz may be connected to counts of Ribargorza who were Lords of Lascorz in the 12th century.
- However, Eugenio Lascorz decided that Lascorz was a bastardized form of Lascaris, a family that provided the Byzantine emperors in exile (the so-called Nicaean Empire) in 1204–61, and began to claim that he was descended from them.
- There is no evidence of that kind of connection. On 16 March 1917 Lascorz substituted the name Lascaris on his father's birth records.
- He began to call himself Eugenio Lascaris and in 1923 issued a manifesto to the Greeks, calling himself Eugenio Lascaris Comneno, adding another imperial dynasty, the Comnenus family, to his supposed pedigree. During the Spanish Republic, Lascorz became a prosecutor and in August 1935 used his influence to modify the birth records of his sister and grandparents to show the name Lascaris.
- He also published a genealogy in which he claimed that his grandfather immigrated from Greece.
- He also changed the names of his father and grandfather. In 1943 Lascorz called himself Prince Eugene Lascaris Comnenus Paleologus, Duke of Athens.
- In 1947 he published the new genealogy that contradicted the previous one.
- In 1953 he published yet another one.
- The latest incarnation claims that his father was not a laborer Manuel Lascorz y Serveto but a nobleman Alexios VI Emmanouil. Eugenio Lascorz's descendants still maintain his claim.
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