The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-26 00:00:00

PEDIGREE OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS

The Princess of Wales.

For the following wonderfully ingenious and beau-
tiful sketch of the pedigree of her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales we are indebted to our
fashionable contemporary the Morning Post. At
any period the outline given below would have been
deeply interesting to the loyal subjects of the
Crown. But it is especially of interest at the pre-
sent moment, when there is every prospect of the
early continuance of this august lineage from the
Emperors Basil and Constantine, through another
generation, according to the welcome announce.
meut given elsewhere from the columns of the
Observer. The pedigree, for which we are indebted
to the Morning Post, a pedigree indicating the
descent of her Royal Highness from the old Em-
perors of the East, has been traced by Thomas de
Meschin, LLD,, of the. Inner Temple, Barrister-at-
Law:—

N. Ducas=

EMPEROR Constantine IX.=Eudocia
Ducas, 1003

an Micas,.
Cwsar

EPEROR Michael
Parapinaces

..Andionicus

I =lsaac Comnenus
,—..,
r ' Manuel Comnenus
i
,----Ne.---,_______,
"'EMPEROR joim=Anna Theodora
Isaac Comnenus-Diary I In. Henry 11.
—_....,
,
e=-_- EMPEROR Alexis Comnenus, 1116 Duke of Austria

Irezi,

Isaac--
EMPEROR John= Isaac= Theodora=Constantino
(Carlo Joannes) 1 Sabasta- I Comnenus Angelus
1143 crator of Phila-
e------• .....-, delphia
EMPEROR= Constantia EMPEROR Andronicus
Manuel d. of Ray- 1185. From whom
1180 mond, P. descended the Empe-
., of Antioch rocs of Trabezond
~......

EMPEROR Alexis IL
1183

PP,ROIt Isaac
Angelus
1195

Andrronicus Angelus=Euphrosine

EXPEROR Alexis Angeius-,Euphrosine
1202

Anne Angelus7TEmhepoedroorreoLaf
Ncseiare,
1222
Irene Lascar=John Ducas Batatza
I Emperor of Nice, 1255
John Theodore Ducas Lascar=Helen, d. of
Emperor of Nice, 1258 I Assanes,
King of
John Emperor of Nice,Bulgaria
1259

EMPEROR Aie-xis Irene Angelus-Philip H.
Angelus I Emperor of Germany
~..-N
ilenry V., Duke of Brabant=Mary, 1240
i

VI., Duke ,of Brabant=--Alisa, d. of Hugh,
1260 I Duke of Burgundy

EMPEROR Basil, died 886=

EMPEROR Leo=
EMPEROR Constantine VII.=

EMPEROR ROmanus IL=

rand Duke of Russia

Henry T., King of France--,Arie

Philip 1., King of France-_,

LoUis
Louis VII.=

Philip ll.=
Louis VIII.-

Philip
King of France

Edward I.:"Tcr"\argaret
King ofEnglaild I (second wife)

Edmund Plantagenet=Margaret,
d, of John, Lora Wake
Earl of Kent

Lady
Lady Joan Plantagenet,Thoinas, Earl of Kent

Thomas de Holland,=Alice, d, of Richard, Earl of Arun del
Earl of Kent 1
, ,
_ _ _____

Lady Mirgaret de liolland=John Beaufort, Marquis of Dorset

Margaret, d. of Sir John Beauchamp=John Beaufort,
IDuke of Somerset
Edmund Tudor, Earl of Riehmond,-_Lady Margaret Beaufort
1

Ifei
King o England

Henry 'VIII. Princess—lrgaret=-james Iv. of Scotland

Janies V.=Magtialen, el. of Francisl., King of Franco
K. of Scotland I

Mary QUCeri of Scots Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

James L.,--Anne, d, of Frederick 11. of Denmark

JI
Princess Elizabeth Frederic, King of Bohemia

nails, Duke of
Princess Sophia=Ernest Ang
Brunswick-Lunenburg

Geor Sophia Dorothy, d. of
George William, Duke of Zeno

George IL=Wilhehnina Carolina, d. of
I win. Fred., Margrave of Brandenburg
Princess Louisa—Frederick V., Ring of Denmark
Princess Louisa=Landgrave Charles of Besse-Cassel
Princess Loulse Caroline=Frederick Duke of CiltickPburg
Christian, Prince of Deninark=r-Tiouic, d. of William,
La ndgrave of Hesse-Cana
Tim PRINCESS OF ALEXANDRA, WALES.

3..grit"From this night of slavery a
* Of the Conmeni, Gibbon says..
ray of freedom, or at least of sin
0, begins to emerge.
pictipnary of Ancient Biography
Comneni for a while upheld O. fate of a sinking empire,
It is observed in Dr. Smith's
Italian origin, and
and mythology," that "The Comileni were an illustrious Byzan-
tine family, which in all
oft(probabili was of
migrated to the East in the time onstantine the Great or his
immediate successors. Several of the, other great Byzantine
families were likewise of Italian origin, as, for instance, the Ducre.
That the name Conmenus' was not unknown in Italy in early
times is proved by an inscription on a marble discovered in the
s
walls of the Church of St. Secundur; at Ameria, in Italy. Six Em-
perors of the East—lsaac I. Alex.L I. Carlo Joannes (John II.),
Manuel I. Alexis 11., and 'Andronicus I.—all the Emperors of
Trebizond, and avast number of generals, statesmen, and authors,
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, really of them were notorious for a
laxity of morals, in which they. Were excelled by none of their
frivolous countrymen. Imperial families, such as the Ducie,
the Angell, the Paktologi, s(;veral royal houses in Europe, and
even the reigning dynasty of the Sultans in Turkey, boasted,
and still boast, of being descended from the C,omneni ; and,
down to this very day, the 1 metensions of a noble family in France
to be entitled by descent to the name of Princes de Comneni
have attracted the attention of historians of repute. A history
of that family would be a most valuable contribution to our
knowledge of the Greeks (hiring the middle ages. When the
Comneni first became known in history, in the 10th century,
they belonged to the Greek nobility in Asia, and their family
seat was at Castamone, a to wn in Paphlagonia, near the Black
Sea, where Alexis Comnenu s, afterwards emperor, visited the
palace of his ancestors dulls ig the reign of Michael VII. (Ducal
Parapinaces). Towards the close of the 10th century two Corn_
neni (Manuel and Nicep'ao?Jus) became conspicuous, who were
probably brothers and sare generally called the ancestors
,
of the Comnenian family N.B.—The names of Emperors in the
414 M NaigZcc Printed ill wean capitals are QIGQ4 F.4lllNrorse

nne=Wolodornir, Gran
Grand Duke Taroslaus: