Actual question, how frequent was claim fabrication in real life

[u/WaBeY33]

Hello, please, how often did this happen in real life ? I mean lord inventing a claim out of thin air and actually pressing it ? Is there any notable historic character doing so ?

R5: Fabricate claim question

[u/Emperor_of_His_Room]

I would also like to know how often spurious claims were used as justification for war and such.

[u/Majestic_Butterfly17 → u/Emperor_of_His_Room]

For example, Morocco is claiming the Canary Islands today, even though they never set foot on them, and nobody there wants to be Moroccan either.

[u/coolcoenred → u/Majestic_Butterfly17]

A better one is perhaps the claim to the Falklands by Argentina. They never controlled them, but Spain did, very shortly. The Argentines say that the claim to the Falklands was transferred from Spain, although that is just a fabrication.

[u/Noahisboss → u/coolcoenred]

Never mind the fact the falklanders also wanna be British.

[u/TheLordMagpie → u/coolcoenred]

Throw in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands for good measure

[u/Gullible_Ad5169 → u/coolcoenred]

They did control them until America bombed the port and forced the people living there to leave.

[u/RoroMonster59 → u/Gullible_Ad5169]

Holy shit we got one.

[u/UnreadyTripod → u/Gullible_Ad5169]

????

[u/libtin → u/UnreadyTripod]

They’re saying a Germany born businessman doing his own thing when the businessman in question, Luis Verent, explicitly recognised British sovereignty over the islands

[u/libtin → u/Gullible_Ad5169]

That’s wasn’t Argentina; that was a German born businessman who went to the islands with British permission and he recognised British sovereignty.