On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 11:45:25 PM UTC-4, M S wrote:
> an essay exists:
> Stair Sainty, Guy (2002)
> "Andreas Wernitz, the real story of his imposture as duke, prince, marquis, count, baron and grandee of Spain".
> Essay, chivalricorders
I understood from a mutual acquaintance that Mr. Sainty scrubbed the excellent essay from the web due to threats of legal action by the fraudster von Wernitz. In the fascinating essay of which I fortunately made a copy, Sainty exposed Wernitz as a Hungarian-born con-man András Petróczy. Wernitz did marry a genuine Hungarian countess, but his own claim to aristocratic forbears is entirely fabricated.