Pierre Plantard

Deceased Person

1920 – 2000

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Who was Pierre Plantard?

Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a direct and legitimate male line Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus. Today in France he is commonly regarded as a mystificator.

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Born
Mar 18, 1920
Paris
Children
Died
Feb 3, 2000

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on July 23, 2013

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