Alexis Brimeyer (1946-1995) was a false pretender who claimed connection to various European thrones. He used fraudulent combined titles like Prince d'Anjou Durazzo Durassow Romanoff Dolgorouki de Bourbon-Conde. He also sold bogus titles of nobility through "orders" he and his associates had created. A Pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. ...

Brimeyer was born May 4, 1946 in Costermansville (now Bukavu), Zaire. His Belgian mother Beatrice divorced his father Victor Brimeyer two months later and remarried 1950 in England with Ferdinand Fabry. May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Bukavu is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, lying at the southern end of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda. ...

Brimeyer's first attempt to ennoble himself came when he named himself Brimeyer de la Calchuyére in the 1950s. This came to nothing. In 1955 he took a name His Serene Highness Prince Khevenhuller-Abensberg but real princess Khevenhuller threatened to sue him; he backpedaled and apologized. He also wrote to number of aristocrats trying to get them to adopt him. In 1969 he received a passport of the principality of Sealand with a name His Highness Prince Alexis Romanov Dolgorouki. When he contracted Brussels orthodox priest Jean Maljinowski to be baptized, the priest got suspicious because this supposed prince did not speak a word of Russian. The Principality of Sealand is a man-made off-shore installation named HM Fort Roughs, a former Maunsell Sea Fort located in the North Sea 10 kilometres (six miles) off the coast of Suffolk, England, as well as territorial waters in a twelve-nautical-mile radius. ... Dolgoroukov (Долгоруков) is the name of a princely Russian family of Rurikid stock. ...

Brimeyer commissioned two death certificates that were published in Le Soir. Through them, he claimed that Nikolai Dolgorouki, his supposed father, had used a false name of Nicholas di Fonzo to escape the October Revolution and lived under that name. Note that Bolsheviks executed real Nikolai Dolgorouki after the Revolution. Le Soir (meaning The Evening) is a Belgian newspaper in French. ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ... Red October redirects here. ... Bolshevik Party Meeting. ...

Princess Khevenhuller-Abensberg, Maria Dolgoroukoff and Prince Alexander Pavlovich Dolgorouki sued Brimeyer. They charged that Brimeyer was using their noble titles with malicious intent. Prosecutor presented large number of fraudulent documents, including letter where emperor Charles V supposedly ennobles Brimeyers. Court noted that his claim of marriage between his "grandfather" prince Dolgorouki and his "grandmother", supposedly survived Maria Nikolayevaco, was false. November 24, 1971 Brimeyer was sentenced to jail for 18 months but by then he had fled to Greece from where he sent a letter to the prosecutor. In it he claimed descent from such luminaries as emperors of Byzantium. November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... This is a list of Byzantine Emperors. ...

In Greece Brimeyer presented himself in the police station, said that his passport had been stolen and requested temporary documents. He registered himself as Alexis Romanov Dolgorouki and for the next ten years he used those documents to "prove" his status.

1979 Brimeyer was living in Spain and contacted the cadet line of the Anjou Durassos. He convinced some of them to give their support and recognize him as the head of the royal house of Anjou-Durazzo. 1982 he published a book "I, Alexis, Great Grandson of the Tsar" by "H.R.H. Prince Alexis d'Anjou Romanov-Dolgorouki, Duke of Durazzo". The book included a "will" where Vassili d'Anjou Durassow supposedly recognized him as his only son. Thus he claimed connection to the house of Anjou and the throne of Naples. In noble families, the title of nobility is usually passed to the first-born son, although more recently it has often passed to the eldest offspring regardless of gender, e. ... Anjou is a former county (c. ... The Bay of Naples Naples (Italian: , Neapolitan: Nàpule, from Greek Νεάπολη < Νέα Πόλις Néa Pólis New City) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of the Campania region and the Province of Naples. ...

Brimeyer claimed Victor Brimeyer was not his father. He claimed that after his mother divorced Brimeyer she married Vassili d'Anjou Durassow on 15 April 1947 and that he was born exactly two years after his real birth date. Note that Durassow never actually married and was possibly homosexual. This supposed marriage was then annulled and she married Prince Igor Dolgorouki on 6 September 1948. Note that she married Farby two years later. Brimeyer claimed that the couple had been elected as royal rulers of Ukraine and had resigned 1939.

In August 1984 Brimeyer's mother, now styled Princess Olga Beatrice Nikolaevna Romanovskaia Dolgoroukaia, Princess of the Ukraine, Countess di Fonzo married Major General Bruce-Alfonso de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (another pretender, real name Bruce Chalmers). After the wedding the supposed prince adopted Brimeyer. This gave Brimeyer an excuse to add a title Bourbon-Conde and a supposed link to throne of Navarre. Note that the last known member of the house of Conde hanged himself 1830. Capital Pamplona (Basque: Iruña) Official language(s) Spanish; Basque co-official in the north of community. ... Louis Henry II of Bourbon or Louis VI (April 13, 1756 ? August 30, 1830) was Prince of Condé from 1818 to his death. ... Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution 1830 (MDCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Next Brimeyer begun to claim that his father was the son of prince Dolgorouki. He again claimed that prince Dolgorouki had married Grand Duchess Maria Nicolaevna, who had supposedly escaped her execution in Ekaterinburg and that his mother was their only daughter. He also claimed that his alleged grandfather had been elected King of Ukraine and somehow convinced some orthodox priests that he was the heir of a throne that does not actually exist. Thus he claimed connection to Romanovs and the throne of Russia. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (1899-1918) Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (Maria Nikolaevna Romanova) (In Russian Великая Княжна Мария Николаевна), also known as Marie or Mashka (June 26, 1899 - July 17, 1918) was the third daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse. ... Photograph of snow-covered Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburgs Church on the Blood, built on the spot where the Tsar and his family were murdered. ... The House of Romanov (Рома́нов, pronounced ) was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country for five generations from 1613 to 1762. ...

Brimeyer sent numerous letters to king Juan Carlos and demanded recognition. In some stage he had married and sired a son. He also managed to convince the British College of Arms to include himself in some of the documents. King Juan Carlos I His Majesty King Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón), styled HM The King (born January 5, 1938), is the reigning King of Spain. ... The Colleges own coat of arms was granted in 1484. ...

In 1992 two Greater Serbian-nationalists including Vojislav Šešelj visited Brimeyer in Spain, supposedly to offer him the throne of Serbia. Brimeyer told the journalists that he had been in touch with Slobodan Milošević who was supposedly in favor of restoring the Serbian monarchy, in the form of Greater Serbia including most of former Yugoslavia. At that sage he used a title Prince Alexis II Nemanitch Romanov Dolgorouki, Grand Master of the (fraudulent) Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. He had convinced his Serbian nationalist supporters that he was descended, in a very convoluted manner, from Hrebeljanovic Nemanitch. Greater Serbia is a name for a Serbian nationalist concept. ... A poster for the 2004 presidential elections, for which Å eÅ¡elj himself was not running, due to the fact that he was awaiting trial in the Hague. ... Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević   (IPA Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Милошевић) (Požarevac, 20 August 1941 – The Hague, 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in Latin, Југославија in Cyrillic, English: Land of the South Slavs) describes four political entities that existed one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century. ...

Brimeyer claimed to have accepted the throne of Serbia. There at least appeared to be some support. The European Monarchist Association published a communiqué where it stated Brimeyer's real identity. The scheme appears to have collapsed.

Alexis Brimeyer died of AIDS in Madrid in March 1995. Some of his supporters have continued to run his affairs for some time afterwards. For information on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , see AIDS For the cues given by riders to their horse, see riding aids. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Alexis Brimeyer in the Chivalric Orders sire
• Adoption Network
• Guy Stair Sainty - The self-styled Orders of Saint John