The Dolores star., 1921-03-18


sou nnmed Michael. Michael earned precarious
living as waiter at Milan and at Florence. ana
repeatedly endeavOred to aneliorate his lot py
marrying some rich woman About ten years ago
he addressed to the head of the marriage-license
bureau ut the New York city hall. remarkapie
letter inviting the assistance of that official IN
securing rich American wife for IA prince OF
royal blood. Prince Michael de Lusignan. Prince
of Armenia, Cyprus. and Jerusalem: Comte de IN
Marche, tifty-seven years of age, and without
iorlune.' His matrimonial designs were MS fruit-
less in America they abroad, however,
and he died in October. 1912, at Petrosrad. in the
oboukofsky hospital. in the utmost poverty and
obscurity, and without leaving any heir
With him there disappeared the sole and only per
son who i'll modern times has ever been officially
If enormously. recognized by any foreign govern
. ment as entitled TO bear the name of Lusigh'th'
More than questionable his own status. he
was never tired of denouncng the soidisaht
Prince Guy de Lusignun of Paris and the latter 5
Leon, utter frauds.
With regard to this Prince Guy de Lusignan
who persuaded number of credulous EnShsh
and Americans into n belief in the authenticity
of his claims, and induced them TO accept the
bogus orders of knighthood which he conferred
upon them, his real name was kalfajnn. He was
the son of an Armenian stone mason. and was ed
ucated by public charity at the Armenian Inon-
astery OF San Lazzaro. mt Venice.
In Paris he first gave out that he was grandson
of the great NapoeOns famous Mameluke.
Roustan, and subsequently blossomed forth as Guy
de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, Cyprus and Ar,
mena. II was previous to this that he had sue
ceeded In winning the hand and fortune of the
wealthy widow of Of the great French art
dealers. After her death, he married rich Eng
lishwoman named Broadley; and 1t was on the
strength Of the money thus acquired that he
adopted his royal titles and founded his ridicu-
lous orders of knighthood. These last the
Order of Melusne. named after the legendary
ancestress of the real Lusignan family, and the
Order of St Catherine of Mount Sinai, which was
restricted women, and which this self-styled
King of Jerusalem had the impudence to confer
upon Miss Clara Barton. then head of the Ameri-
can Red Cross.
No sketch of the Kings of Jerusalem, past and
present bogus and authentic, would be complete
without a mention of the dethroned Kaisers extra
ordinary pretensions the title. He boldly as
sumed it the occasion of his theatrical entry
into Jerusalem in 1898. when he rode into the Holy
City arrayed in the white mantle of the crusader
sovereigns and carrying their emblem. cross
In the almost blasphemous sermons that he
preached the Mount of Olives and in the
Lutheran church at Jerusalem he emphasized his
claim to the kingfy title held by Frederick
III of the old German empire. AT home, how
ever he never included it In the official list of
his multifarious honors German Kaiser and
autocrat of Prussia.
The former Kaiser was not content to ascribe
his rights in the matter to descent from one OF
the medieval rulers OF Jerusalem He goes back
to an epoch much more renote-to King David
of the Old Testament, whom he claims as an an
cestor Hanging in conspicuous position in his
workroom In the Neues Paais at Potsdam is OF
was huge and beautifully framed genealogical
Tree showing the name of King David at the root
and that of the Emperor William at the top Ac
cordjng to this tree, the dethroned Kaiser Is de
sconded from King David through the eldes,
doupbter of Zedekah, who. with her sister, fled
IN ireland In charge of the Prophet Jeremiah, to
he married to Hererson. King Of Ulster.
This genealogical tree is the work of n clergy
mnn of the Church of England. named Glover
Who devoted most of his life to the study of gene
o,opy. In 1869 he wrote to Queen Victoria inform
no her that he had discovered her to be descended
In an unbroken line from King David The queen
cont for him to come to Windsor. and to his
o,nnzement informed him that what he though,
ba had been the first to discover had been known
to herself and to her late husband. the Prince
(onsort for many years.
IT is quite natural that Victoria's grandson tn,
former Kaiser with his intense, II somewhat curl
GUS religious IDEAS should have been deeply in
terested in this family tree. Soon after his ac
cession to the throne Of Germany he requested
his grandmother to let him have copy whcl
was sent to him handsomely engrOssed and gorge
ously frnmed Its contemplation naturally tended
to increase his belief in the divine origin of hi,
sovereignty