A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

822 COMNEN0UST. C

COMNENUS.

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1. Theodora, married
Baldwin III., king
of Jerusalem; after his
death concubine of Andronicus Comnenus, afterwards emperor.

2. Maria,
married
Stephen,
prince of
Hungary.

3. A daughter, married
Constantine Macroducas.

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4. A daughter, married
probably a Ducas, whose
son Isaac became independent master of Cyprus, and styled himself
emperor.

5. Eudoxia,
married
a French
nobleman.

From above. IV. Further Issue of the Emperor Calo-Joannes. Manuel, Emperor [MANUEL];
born about 1120, began to reign 1143, died 1180; married
1. Bertha (in 1143), afterwards called Irene, daughter of Berengar, Count of Sulzbach, and niece of
Konrad III., Emperor of Germany, who died about 1158; 2. Maria, afterwards called Xene,
daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch; put to death by Andronicus I. in 1183; 3. Concubine,
Theodora Comnena (Calusina).
1. Maria, betrothed to 2. A 3. Alexis II., Emperor 4. Alexis, illegitimate, Sebastocrator;
Bela, prince of Hungary; daugh- [ALEXIS II.]; born married Irene, natural daughter of Anmarried, in 1180, Ray, ter; 1167; began to reign dronicus I. Comnenus and Theodora
ner, 2nd son of William, died 1180; married,in 1179, Comnena; destined to succeed Andromarquis of Monteferrato, young. Anna, or Agnes, daugh- nicus I., by whom he was afterwards
called Alexis, afterwards ter of Louis VII., king blinded for conspiracy; though blind,
Caesar; both put to death of France; put to death created Caesar by Isaac II.; for some
by Andronicus I. by Andronicus I. in time a monk; a learned and highly gifted
1183. man, of whom no issue is known.
(See Du Cange, Familiae Byzantinae, pp. 169-189.)
From above, V. Issue of ISAAc SEBASTOCRATOR, founder of the Imperial branch of the COMNENI OF
TREBIZOND.
The history of the Emperors of Trebizond was almost entirely unknown till the publication of Professor Fallmerayer's Geschickle des Kaiserthums von Trapezunt, one of the most important historical
productions of our days. The accounts which Du Cange and Gibbon give of these emperors is in many
respects quite erroneous; but these writers are to be excused, since they could not avail themselves of
several Oriental works perused by Fallmerayer, and especially of two Greek MSS. which the German
professor discovered at Venice, viz., A Chronicle of the imperial palace at Trebizond, by Panaretus, and
a work on Trebizond by the celebrated Cardinal Bessarion. It would not be compatible with the plan
of the present work to give the lives of the Emperors of Trebizond, but it has been thought advisable
to give at least their genealogy, and thus to assist those who should wish to investigate the history and
tragical fall (in 1 462) of the last independent remnant of Greek and Roman power. As there are no
genealogical tables in Fallmerayer's work, the writer has brought together all his separate statements
respecting the genealogy of the family, and the following genealogical table of the Comneni of Trebizond
is thus the first that has yet been printed.
V. Isaac Sebastocrator, Caesar,
third son of Alexis I., and third brother and favourite of the Emperor Calo-Joannes.
In consequence of some slanders against his character, he fled to the Sultan of Iconium, with his son
Joannes, returned, enjoyed again the confidence of Calo-Joannes, lost it once more, was imprisoned,
but released by the emperor Manuel, and died in possession of the highest civil and military honours,
leaving behind him the reputation of having been one of the most virtuous and able men of his time.
Died after 1143.

1. Joannes;
returned from Iconium, whither he had fled with his father;
but, for some insult shewn to him, abandoned the Greeks
for ever, adopted the Mohammedan religion, settled at Iconium, and married Camero (?), daughter of Sultan Mazuthi
(Mesfid I); called by the Turks-Seljulks Zelebis (Chelebi),
that is, " the Nobleman." This Joannes, as was said by
Mohammed If., sultan of the Turks-Osmanlis, the conqueror
of Constantinople, and repeated by most of the Turkishi
historians, was the ancestor of the sultans of Turkey,
leaving issue, viz. Soliman Shah.
Erto6ghbrl.
Osman,
the well-known founder of the present reigning dynasty
in Turkey. These three persons are all historical, but their
descent from John Comnenus is more than doubtful.

2. Andronicus, Emperor 3. A son.
[ANDusoNIcus I.]; born
about 1112; began to Isaac;
reign 11 82-3; put to put to death,
death 11 85'; married by Isaac TI,
1. name unknown; 2. Angelus,
Theodora Comniena, concubine; 3. Philippa,
daughter of 1Raymond,
prince of Antioch, and
widow of Balduwin III.,
king of Jerusalem, concubine (wife?)-; 4. Anna or Agnes, tdaughter
of Louis VII., king of
France, and widow of
the emperor Alexis 11.
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