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N. Ducas=

EmPEROR Constantine IX.,_—_Zudocia John Ducas-,
Ducas, 1063 I Caesar

EMPEROR
Parapinaces

=Andionicus

=lsaac Comnenus
=Manuel Comnenus

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I ,,_,
'EMPEROR . John=-Anna Theodora
Isaac Comnenus=3lary • I • in. Henry 11.
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tez-_- EMPEROR Alexis Comnenus, 1116 Duke of Austria

cTlonitenoednoraus=Cok=
F.....0h-n......._Thz,
„..____-- . .
EMPEROR Isaac=
(Carlo Joannes) I Sabasta- I
1143 crator I of Phila-
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EMPEROR—Constantin EMPEROR AridroliiCUS delphia
Manuel d. of Ray- 1185. From whom
1180 mond, P. descended the Empe-
of Antioch rors of Trabezond

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EMPEROR Alexis IL
1183

Andr'onicus Angelus=_-Euphrosine

EMPEROR Isaac:
Angelus
1195

EMPEROR Alexis Angelus_Euphrosine
1202

Arin;AugeluslThEmepoedroorreoLaf
Nice,scar 1222

Irene Lascar=John Ducas Batatza
Emperor of Nice, 1255
John Theodore Ducas Lascar=llelen, d. 01
Emperor of Nice, 1258 I Assanes,
King of
John Emperor of Nice,Bulgaria
1259

Irene Angelus—Philip
Emperor of Germany
Henry V., Duke of Brabant=Mary, 1240 ,

EMPEROR Alexis
Angelus

Henry YE., Duke of Brabant=Misa, d. of Hugh,
1260 I Duke of Burgundy

EMPEROR Basil, died 886=

EMPEROR LCo=

EMPEROR COUStarltine

EMPEROR Romanus 11. =
I

Anne= Wolodomir, Grand Duke of Russia

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Henry 1., King of France,- no

rliilip 1., King of France_

Lotiis

Louis VII.=

Philip ll.=
Louis VIII.=

Philip Ill.=11(ary------
King of France I
Edward L=Margaret
King of England I (second wife)

Edreinhl Plantagenet=3largaret, d. of John, Lord Wake
Earl of Kent

Lady Joan Plantagenet_—_-.Thonias, Earl of Kent

Thomas de
Kent Ifolland=Alice, d. of Richard, Earl of Arundel
Earl of (

Lady Margaret de Holland—John Beaufort, Marquis of Dorset
Dlargaret, d. of Sir John Beaucha.-7np;Din Beaufort,

- I Duke of Somerset
—____.,
Edmund Tudor, Earl of Riehmoncl=_-Lady Margaret Beaufort
.1

Henry Vll.:=Prineess Elizabeth
King of England , d. of Edward IV.

Henry viII. Princess liargaret,james IV. of Scotland

James d. of Francis 1., King of Franco
K. of Scotland I
Mary Q Scots ilenrY
Stuart, Lord Darnley
ueen of

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jc----Imes /....„Anne, d. of Frederick 11. of Denmark

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Princess Elizabeth Frederic, King or
1 Bohemia

Princess Sophia=Ernest Augustus, Duke of
I Brunswick-Ltuienbura

Geo Sophia Dorothy, d. of
George William, Duke of Zello
rge L=

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Georg ''
e ll.,—..Wilhelinina Carolina, d of
Iwin. Fred.,Hargrave of Brandenburg
rrineess Loulsa=Frederiek V., King of Denmark
i

Princessoulsa
tandgrave Charles of Ilesse-Cassel
L .

Princess Louise Caroline—Frederick Duko of Glticksburg

Christian, Prince of Denmark.. Louise, d. of William.
Landgraire of nesse.cami
H.R.U. ALEXANDRA, TIIR PRINCESS OP WALES.

"From this night of slavery a
* Of the Comneni, Gibbon says,
fate 0 a sinking
ray of freedom, or at least of spirit, basins to emerge. .
“pictionary of Ancient Biography
Comneni for a while upheld the empire."
Comneni were an illustrious Ilyzan-
It is observed in Dr. Smith's
i:s onf , Italian origin, and
and Mythology," that "The
tine family, which in all probabilit,
migrated to the East in the time of Ce ta tine the Great or his
immediate successors. Several of the other great BYzantine
families were likewise of Italian origin, as, for instance, the Ducw.
That the name ' Comnenus' was not unknown in Italy in early
times is proved by an inscription on a marble discovered in the
walls of the Church of St. Seciindus at Anieriaj in Italy. Six Em-
oannes (John II.),
perors of the East—lsaac I. Alexis 1.,
Carlo
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Manuel I. Alexis 11., and Andronicus I.—all the Emperors of
Trebizond, and a vast number of generals, statesmen, and author
were descended from the family of the Comneni; but, while almost
all of them were distinguished by the choicest natural gifts,
both of mind and of body, many of them were notorious for a
laxity of morals, in which they were excelled by none of their
~
frivolous countrymen. Impend families, such as the Dlica,
the Angell, the Palwolop,l, several royal houses in Europe aini
even the reigning dynasty of the ;-,ultans in Turkey, boasted,
and still boast, of being descended from the Cornwall • and
history
down to this very day, the pretensions of a noble family in
•pran c ,
to be entitled by descent to the name of Princes de Con o
em have attracted the attention of historians of repute. A
of that family would be a most valuable contribution to
our
knowledge of the Greeks during the middle ages. when
lek
Comneni first became known in history, in the 10th century,l3, e
they belonged to the Greek nobility in Asia, and their fam
seat was at Castamone. a town in Paphlagonia, near the Bla
Sea, where Alexis Comnenus, afterwards emperor, visited the
(Ducal
e
Palace of his ancestors during the reign of Michael VII,
Parapinaces). Towards the close of the 10th century two
Com-
neni (Manuel and Nicephorus) became conspicuous' i-,
who were Probably brothers, and who are generally called the ancestors of the Comnenian family." N.B.—The names of Emperors in th above pedigree printed in small capitala are Greek Emperors.

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