death_date death_place birth_place nationality name birth_date known_for article_title birth_name occupation
03 february 2000 paris , france paris , france french pierre plantard de saint-clair 18 march 1920 mystic mystificator , member of the priory of sion , pierre plantard
 pierre athanase marie plantard draughtsman
pierre plantard

pierre plantard de saint-clair -lrb- born pierre athanase marie plantard , 18 march 1920 -- 3 february 2000 -rrb- 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 .
