Michael IV... 1034 Benedict IX. 1033 Henry III. Michael V. 1041 Gregory VI... 1044 Clement II... 1046 Benedict IX. .... Theodora ... Isaac Comne 1054 Victor II..... 1054 Stephen IX... 1057 Henry IV. the 1057 Benedict X... 1058 Great .... ... 1056 Nicholas II... 1058 Honorius II. 1124 Lothaire II... 1125 Innocent II... 1130 Conrad III... 1138 1143 Lucius II..... 1144 A.D. A.D. Gregory VIII. 1187 Clement III. 1187 A.D. Alexis III... 1194 Celestinus III. 1191 Henry VI... 1190 Innocent III. 1198 Philip of Suabia 1197 Honorius III. 1216 Otho IV..... 1208 Theodore Las 7 The titles of the Greek emperor Manuel Paleologus and the German Emperor Sigismund contemporaries were nearly the same. Manuel in Christo Dei fidelis imperator et moderator Romeorum (Romanorum) Paleologus et semper Augustus. Sigismundus Dei gratia Romanorum imperator semper Augustus. See Le Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique. Tom. V. p. 84. 8 By an act dated A.D. 1494, Sept 6, and lately transmitted from the archives of the Capitol to the Royal library of Paris, the despot, Andrew Paleologus, reserving the Morea, and stipulating some private advantages, conveys to Charles VIII. King of France, the Empires of Constantinople and Trebizond (Spondanus A.D. 1495. No. 2) M. de Forcemagne (Mem. de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. xvii. p, 539-578.) has bestowed a dissertation on this national title, of which he had obtained a copy from Rome." Gibbon, Chap. Ixviii. Note 91. See also Le Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique, Tom. VI. p. 83. A.D. A.D. thus continued in a Innocent VIII. 1484 A.D. French dynasty. Alexander VI. 1492 Maximilian I. 1493 Julius II..... 1503 Francis I..... 1515 Leo X................... 1513 Charles V. .... Charles IX... 1560 Pius V. 1566 Maximilian II. 1564 Henry III... 1574 Gregory XII. 1572 Rodolph II... 1576 Louis XIII. the Leo XI. Paul V. .... 1612 .... 1605 Matthias .... 1605 Ferdinand II. 1619 Gregory XV. 1623 Ferdinand III. 1637 Urban VIII. 1623 Louis XV. .. 1715 Innocent XIII.1721 Charles VI... 1711 866 Zopf in his Summary of Universal History, (Precis de l'Histoire Universelle,) 20th edition, says, that a scion of the Comnena family, who had claims to the throne of Constantinople, retired into Corsica in 1462, and that several members of that family bore the name of Calomeros, which is perfectly identical with that of Buonaparte, καλὸν μέρος. It may hence be concluded that this name has been Italianized. We do not believe this circumstance was ever known to Napoleon." Montholon and Gourgand's Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. III. p. viii. If this be true, Napoleon might be Emperor of the Romans by right of birth, as well as of arms. |