Wednesday, November 9, 2011

7 Biggest Fraud Ever Happen In The History

1. Margaret false


False Margaret (1260-1301) was a Norwegian woman who disguised as Margaret, daughter of the original Norwegia.Margaret had died in 1290, in Orkney, and his father King Eirik II of Norway (above) died in 1299, was succeeded by his brother , Haakon V. The next year a woman arrived in Bergen, Norway, with ships sailing from Lubeck Germany, admitted sebgai Margaret, and some people accused of treason.

He stated that he did not die in Orkney, but has been sent to Germany, where he married. City residents and some of the clergy to support his claim, though the late King Eirik had identified the dead body of his son, and although she was apparently aged 40 years, whereas the original Margaret was aged 17.
Margaret and her husband was convicted of false deceit: he was beheaded and he was burned at the stake, in the year 1301.

2. Anna Anderson

Anna Anderson probably the most famous entry in this list. In 1920, Anderson appeared in a mental hospital in Germany as Jane Doe.
He refused to disclose his identity at first, but two years later he started claiming to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, who is believed (although not by all) has been executed with the rest of the Russian royal family of four years earlier.

Anderson is a woman most famous for claiming to be Anastasia, and he continues to uphold the claim until his death, in 1984. During his life he was visited by many members of the Russian royal family - some of them support the claim and some regard him as a fraud. claim made famous around the world, and a number of films and books written about him.

In 2007, Anastasia Romanov's body was found in Russia, finally putting the original Anastashia mysteries unfold. DNA tests on hair and Anna Anderson proved he adaalah a factory worker who lost in Poland with the name of Franziska Schanzkowska.

3. Helga de la Brache


Helga de la Brache (09.06.1817, Stockholm - 11.1.1885, Stockholm), reaching a royal pension to convince the authorities that he was the secret daughter of King Gustav IV of Sweden (top) and Queen Frederica of Baden.

In Exile Gustav IV and Frederica of Baden had been divorced in 1812, but Helga de la Brache claimed that they had married again, quietly, "in a monastery in Germany", which resulted in him was born in Lausanne, in 1820. He was then sent to be raised by his aunt, Princess Sophia Albertine of Sweden.

When the Princess died in 1829, he was taken to the asylum Vadstena, so it will be hidden secret of his birth because he would be considered gila.Kisahnya believed by many people in Sweden and Finland. even skeptics have to admit that the story was, at least, theoretically possible. He received substantial financial support from private contributors.

In March 1861, the king allowed his annual pension from the state department for a fee of 2400 Swedish riksdaler per-year, (number, from the beginning of 1200, made larger, in December 1869). The king also promised to give her a princess furniture.

He managed to continue this for many years until a newspaper report led to an investigation was held. Turns out he was a minister from Stockholm who have made it all up. He was then on the table hijaukan, and court decisions result in termination of his pension.

4. Pseudo-Nero


After the emperor Nero committed suicide near the villa Freedman Phaon, in June 68 AD, many fraudsters claiming to be Nero emerged between the autumn of 69 BC and the time of the emperor Domitian.

The first pseudo-Nero appeared in the autumn 68 BC, or early winter of 69 BC, the Roman province of Achaia, which Harini into modern Greek.
Nero had just visited Greece (66-67 AD) to participate in the Panhellenic Games, and this led to some stories from the fraudsters claim somewhat acceptable.
The fraudsters, according to Tacitus, it is possible is the slave of Pontus, or perhaps a slave who has been free from Italy.

historians did not reveal much about the early career fraudsters, except to say that the Pseudo-Nero gathered around him a group of army deserters and then set off to sea where he began his career in piracy while maintaining his claim to be emperor. He was eventually captured and beheaded.

5. Claude des Armoises


Some fraudsters claiming to be Saint Joan of Arc, after he was executed in 1431. The most successful was Claude des Armoises. Claude des Armoises married to a knight, Robert des Armoises, and claimed her as Joan of Arc, in the year 1436.
He received support from relatives of Joan of Arc. He continues to be on the stage until 1440, getting lots of donations and gifts.

When the country is in a coma, "In this year came a young girl who said she was the Princess of France, and played his role so well that many deceived by him, and especially the greatest nobles." Some modern writers have attempted to revive this claim by asserting that some other victims replaces Joan of Arc at the stake.

This possibility is very slim, since the cancellation of court records oath testimony from several witnesses who were present at the execution and confirmation of identity.

6. Lambert Simnel

Lambert Simnel (1477 -. 1525) is disguised as a nobleman from England. statement claiming that he was the Earl of Warwick, in 1487, threatening the new government was set up from King Henry VII (reigned 1485-1509).
At the age of about ten, Simnel was taken as a disciple by the Oxford-trained seorangpendeta named Roger Simon (or Richard Symonds) who apparently decided to become a kingmaker.

He taught these kids manners polite, and contemporaries describe him as handsome.
She taught etiquette required and educated well by Symonds.
Simon saw a striking resemblance between Lambert and the children of Edward IV who should be killed, so he initially intended to present Simnel as Richard, Duke of York, son of King Edward IV, the younger of the Princes who had disappeared in the Tower . However, when he heard a rumor that the Earl of Warwick had died during incarceration in the Tower of London, he changed his mind.

Warwick is actually a boy about the same age and have a claim to the throne as the son of the Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward IV. Simon spread the rumor that Warwick actually escaped from the Tower and is under guardianship.

Simon managed to collect a small number of Irish troops to support the claims of feudal lords. They clashed with the army of King on June 16, at the Battle of Stoke Field and defeated. Because he was a priest, Simon was imprisoned for life, not executed, and Simnel was so young, had been pardoned by the King and was given a job as a carrier of a spit in the royal kitchen.

7. Karl Wilhelm Naundorff


Karl Wilhelm Naundorff (1785 -? August 10, 1845) is a maker of clocks and watches from Germany who until his death claimed to be Prince Louis-Charles. Naundorff is one of the more stubborn than the other over 30 people who claimed to be Louis XVII.

Prince Louis-Charles, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette of France, was imprisoned during the French Revolution and is believed to have died in prison. However, there are various rumors sympathizer Dauphin young monarch has a spirit far from the prison, and that he lived in another place in secret.

Naundorff claimed that he was a young prince, and which are considered the body is replaced with a corpse youth orphaned deaf and mute, and that he had hidden in a secret area of ​​Tower Temple to escape.

He also claimed that he was later recaptured by Napoleon's troops and secretly stored in several dungeons throughout Europe, until finally fled in the mid twenties.

Despite the fact that Naundorff not speak French very well, he managed to convince a former member of the various courts of Louis XVI that he is the Dauphin. He seemed to know everything about the private lives of the royal court, giving the correct answer to most questions and talk to the palace as if he had known them as a child.

However, Princess Marie-Thérèse, the brother of Prince Louis, did not recognize him. He never saw the photos of this impostor, and Princess Marie claims that she did not see her resemblance to her sister and even refused to see him, although he never saw another claimant who is not represented by a former member of the royal court.

In 1836, Marie Thérèse Naundorff sued for his alleged properties. In contrast, King Louis-Philippe police arrested him, seized all documents and deported him to England. He died in 1845, in Delft, the Netherlands, where he might be poisoned.

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