The clan's departure from France is much betterĭocumented than its origins. Stock." The most ambitious search for Rockefeller's roots traced them back to a ninth-century French family, the Roquefeuilles, who supposedly inhabited a Languedoc chateau. "I am satisfied with my good old American "I have no desire to trace myself back to the nobility," he said honestly.
In the early 1900s, as Rockefeller vied with Andrew Carnegie for the title of the world's richest man, a spirited rivalry arose between France and Germany, with each claiming to be Rockefeller's ancestral land.Īssorted genealogists stood ready, for a sizable fee, to manufacture a splendid royal lineage for the oilman.
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