Eugenio Lascorz y Labastida (1886 -?) was a pretender who claimed connection to the royal house of the Byzantine Empire. A Pretender is a claimant to an abolished or already occupied throne. ... The Byzantine Empire (Native Greek names: ΡΩΜΑΝΙΑ Romania or ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΑ ΡΩΜΑΙΩΝ Basileia Romaion) is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ...

Eugenio Lascorz was born in Zaragoza March 26, 1886. His father was a laborer. Zaragozas location in Spain Zaragoza (frequently Saragossa in English; Latin Caesaraugusta) is the capital city of the autonomous region and former kingdom of Aragón in Spain, and is located on the river Ebro, and its tributaries the Huerva and Gállego, near the centre of the region, in... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ...

The Basque family name Lascorz may be connected to counts of Ribargorza who were Lords of Lascorz in the 1100's. However, Eugenio Lascorz decided that Lascorz was a bastardized form of Lascaris and begun to claim that he is descended from the imperial house of the Byzantine Empire. There is no evidence of that kind of connection. This article is about the Basque people. ...

On March 16, 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. March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... 1917 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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. There have been two Spanish Republics: First Spanish Republic (1873-1874) Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939) Franco declared Spain to be a monarchy, but did not permit a monarch until his death in 1975. ... In countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system, the prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution. ... Genealogy is the study and tracing of family pedigrees. ...

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.

Lascorz's descendants still maintain his claim.

External links

• New Byzantium website
• Refutation of Chivalric Orders site