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*EMPEROR John=-Amia
Theodora
Isaac Conmenus,----MarY I m. Henry 11.
~.._______, Duke of Austria
te=EMPEROR Alexis Comnenus, 1116

Ireri,

Theoaora=Constantine
Conmenus I Angelus
of Phila-
delphia

v
EMPEROR .jrohn=--. Isaac..
(Carlo Joannes) I Sabasta- 1
1143 crater I
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EMPEROR=Constantia EMPEROR Andronicus
1
Manuel d. of Ray- 1185. From whom
1180 mond, P. descended the Empe.
of Antioch rors of TrabOzond

EMPEROR Alexis IL

1183

EMPEROR Isaac'
.Angelus
11J5

Andionicus Angelus=-Eu.

►hrosine

EMPEROR Alexis Angelus=
1202 I

.Eupluosine

.Aime Angelus—Theodore Lascar
I Emperor of Nice, 1222

,--
Irene Lascarr
EJmohpnerDor of Nice,ueasßatz2ass
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John Theodore Ducas Lascar=lfelen, d. of
Emperor of Nice, 1258 I Assanes,
King of
' Bulgaria
John Emperor of Nice,
1259

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EMPEROn Alexis Irene Angelus—Philip 11.
Angelus I Emperor of Germany
•—___,
Henry V., Duke of Brabant Mary, 1240

Henry Vi., Duke of Brabant=Alisa, d. of Hugh,
126 Q 4 Duke of Burgundy

EMPEROR Basil, died 886=

EMPEROR Leo=

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EMPEROR Constantine.Vll.=

EmPEEOR Ifomanus

Anne=Wolodomir, Grand Duke of Russia

Grand Duke Jaroslaus=
Henry 1., King of France,--_-Anne

Philip 1., King of France=
,1

Loilis V1.,-_-.

Louis VII.=

Philip IL=

Louis VIII.=

Philip lll.=_Mary
King of France I
Edward 1.,-.Margaret
King of England I (second wife)
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Edmund Plantagenet,--Margaret, d. of John, Lord Wake
Earl of Kent I

Lady Joan Plantagenet=Thomas, Earl of Kent

Thoinas de Ilolland-,-Alice, d. of Richard, Earl of Arundel
Earl of Kent
_ _ .

Lady
Margaret de nolland.-_-John Beaufort, Marquis of Dorset
Margaret, d, of Sir John Beauchamp=john Beaufort,
I Duke of Somerset
Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond-Lady Margaret Beaufort

Henry Vll..=Princess Elizabeth, d. of Edward IV.
King of England 1
1

nry VIII. Princess Margaret=James IV. of Scotland
ne
I.

James V.=3lagdalen, €l. of Francis 1., King of Franco
K. of Scotland

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31--r:ary Queen f Scots Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

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James L=Anne, d. of Frederick 11. of Denmark
--,
Princess Elizabeth Frederic, Ring of Bohemia

Princess sophia=Ernest Augustus, Duke of
Brunswick-Luueuburg

George I. =Sophia Dorothy, d. of
George William, Duke of Zelle
ithelm ina Carolina, d. of
George IL:=W
IWm.Fred., Margrave of Brandenburg
Trincess Louisa
I Frederick V., Ring of Denmark
Laudgrave Charles of Hesse-Cassel
Frinct----fess

Duke of Gliickpburg
Princess Louise Caroline,-Frederick

,-- inark=Louise
Christian, Prince of Den 1 _,d. of William,
Land grave of ilesse-Cassel
H.R.H. ALEXAND
,------ EA, THE PRINCE SS OF WALES.
* Of the Comneni,
Gibbon says,siri "From this night of slavery a
ray of freedom, or at least
ins to emerge.. . . The
Comneni for a while
It is observed in Dr. Smiths
dpthet fatec of a sinking empire."
ul? ei_ths " Dictionary of Ancient Biography
and Mythology," that "The
Comneni were an illustrious Byzan-
tine family, which in
Probability
all c time of .?nwas of
Italian origin, and
Constantine the Great or his
h-6everal of the other great Byzantine
migrated to the East in
tnornigitn, as, for instance, the Du unknown
successors.
families were likewise of It.llia
That the name ' Comne wasnus tion o unknown in Italy in early
te
Alexis
01
annli tl ae lsy
John( Si x
IT. ) :
times is proved by aninsc ic'undi sn: marble discovered in the
walls of the Church Ise tc.
'An.dronicus I.—all the Emperors of
perors of the East—
ir andber oi generals, statesmen, and authors,
Manuel I. Alexis 1
1.1, o.f.the Comneni ; but, while almost
Trebizond, and a vast num.
the choicest natural gifts,
were descended from the fain
all of them were distingiusi ed by
both of mind and of body,
they of
them were notorious for a
laxity of morals, in which were excelled by none of their
frivolous countrymen. Imperial families, such as the Ducte,
tans ey, oasted,
the Angeli, the Palxologi, several royal houses in Europe, and
ydec;cen.ded from the Comneni ; ami,
even the reigningnf dbyrngt
and still boast,
down to this very tbe preteiniesions of a noble family in France
valuablenaiso
contribution
ornetpruibt
tea
joAn historyt
to be entitled bydescent toot_
historians
of Princes de Comneni
have attracted the attent_ioan
of
fost
of that family would be
during the middle o our
knowledge Of the Greeks
in history, ages. When the
Comneni first became kno
nobilitywn• in the 10th century,
they belonged to the Greek ._am Asia, and their family
seat was at Castamone. a tOVlllalr.l r Phlagonia, near the Black
.ea, where Alexis Comnenus, Iteri.vards emperor, visited the
palace of his ancestors during the reign of Michael VII. (Ducas
Parapinaces). Towards the close of the 10th century two Com-
neni (Manuel and NicePhorus) became conspicuous, who were
probably brothers, and who are generally called the ancestors
of the Comnenian family. N.B.—The names of Emperors in the
small capitals are Greek Emperors.
above pedigree printed in