Original publication: Aikin, Judith Popovich. "Pseudo-ancestors in the Genealogical Projects of the Emperor Maximilian I." Renaissance and Reformation 13 (1): 2014. 8-15. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v13i1.12917. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.