Mario Bernardo Pierangeli

Mario Bernardo Pierangeli (12 Jun 1914 – 1988), later Michele Angelo-Comneno di Tessaglia, was an Italian tax lawyer, forger and pretender. Claiming descent from the Epirote branch of the Byzantine Angelos dynasty (the Komnenodoukai), Pierangeli from the 1950s onwards claimed the title "Prince of Thessaly and Epirus" as "His Royal and Imperial Highness Michael III".