any bloodlinefags around? Elon's French King Louis XIV twat??
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Who Was The Man In The Iron Mask, The Anonymous 17th-Century French Prisoner?
TL;DR:
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Before taking up residence at the dreaded Bastille, he was held in a small prison off the coast of Cannes called Sainte-Marguerite. One of the most infamous prisoners was the Man in the Iron Mask, who was said to be held there sometime during the 1680s.
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Even after his death in 1703, the very memory of the Man in the Iron Mask was subject to erasure. His clothes were promptly burned at dawn, and his cell was scraped and whitewashed to hide any trace of his identity that he may have left behind.
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Historians point to two men as the most often suspected identities behind the iron mask: Ercole Matthiole and Eustache Dauger. The former was an Italian count who had betrayed Louis XIV politically in the 1670s. As for Dauger, he was reportedly a valet arrested for unclear reasons in 1669. While some say the valet was somehow implicated in a political scandal, others say he wasn’t a valet at all. He’s also been painted as a debauched nobleman or even a failed assassin.
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Meanwhile, the Dutch people, who fighting the French during the Nine Years’ War, hoped to sow discord by spreading the rumor that the Man in the Iron Mask was the true father of the king. This rumor took root because Louis XIV was born very late into his parents’ marriage.
For some people, that was enough to convince them that his mother may have taken a lover to provide France with an heir.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-man-in-the-iron-mask