A.D. A.D. A.D nus Benedict VIII. 1012 Coustantine Conrad II. callVII. ...... 1026 John XX. 1024 ed the Salic 1024 Clement IJ... 1046 Benedict IX. reinstated .. 1047 Damasus II... 1048 Leo IX. 1048 Theodora ... 1054 Victor II..... 1054 Isaac Comne Stephen IX... 1057 Henry IV. the 1057 Benedict X... Great ... 1056 1058 Constantine IX.1059 Nicholas II... 1058 Romanus III. 1068 Alexander II. 1061 Michael VI. 1071 Alexius Com- Gregory VII. 1073 Rodolph 1078 1078 Victor III. 1085 Herman 1086 Urban II..... 1087 Egbert 1088 Pascal II. 1099 Henry V..... 1106 Nicephorus III.1115 Gelasius II. John Comnenus 1118 1118 Callixtus[l... 1119 Honorius II. 1124 Lothaire II... 1125 Innocent II... 1130 Conrad III... 1138 Manuel Com Celestinus II.' 1143 Eugenius III. 1145 Frederic I. called Barbarossa 1152 Alexander III. 1159 nenus II. Lucius III 1181 1180 nenus Competitors nenus A.D. A.D. A.D. ...... 1204 Gregory VIII. 1187 Clement III. 1187 Alexis III. .. 1194 Celestinus III. 1191 Henry VI. 1190 Innocent III. 1198 Philip of Suabia 1197 Theodore Las- Honorius III. 1216 Otho IV. .... 1208 caris John Ducus .. 1222 Gregory IX. 1227 Frederic II... 1211 Celestinus IV. 1241 Innocent IV. 1241 Theodore II. 1255 Conrad IV.. 1250 Alexander IV. 1254 John Lascaris 1258 William 1250 Michael Paleo Troubles and InUrban IV. 1261 logus...... 1259 terregnum 1257 Richard of Eng- land 1257 Gregory X. .. Alphonso of 1268 Castile 1257 Innocent V... 1276 Rodolph of Hapsburg.. 1273 Nicholas III. 1277 Honorius IV. 1285 Adolphus of Nassau Albert 1. of Austria 1292 1298 Benedict X or XI. ... ... 1303 Andronicus III.1320 Clement V... 1305 Henry VII. of Luxemburg 1308 Interregnum .. 1313 Frederic III. of John Paleologus1341 Nicholas V... 1328 Austria Louis V. of Ba varia ...... 1314 1314 A.D. A.D. A.D. Charles IV. of 1377 Bohemia 1347 Gonthier of Venceslaus of Bohemia 1378 Manuel Paleologus? . Boniface IX. 1389 Fred. of Bruns- wick ...... 1400 Gregory XII. Rob. of Bavaria 1400 Sigismund of deposed 1410 Luxembu g7 1410 John Paleologus 1424 Martin V. 1417 Eugenius IV. 1431 Albert II, of Austria called the Grave .. 1438 leologus 1448 Nicholas V... 1447 Frederic IV. 1440 Destroyed by the Turks .... 1453 Callixtus III. 1455 But sold by Andrew Pius II. 1458 Paleologus toCharles Paul II. 1464 VIII. of France and Sixtus IV. 1471 .... 1439 8 66 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. 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. l. p. 83. A.D. A.D. A.D. .... 1503 .... 1589 thus continued in a Innocent VIII. 1484 Julius II..... 1503 Adrian VI... 1524 Clement VII. 1523 Julius III. 1550 Paul IV..... 1555 Sixtus V. .... 1585 Urban VII... 1590 Clement VIII. 1592 Leo XI. 1605 Matthias Just 1610 Paul V. .... 1605 Ferdinand II. 1619 Urban VIII. 1623 1643 1658 1700 Joseph I. .... 1705 Louis XV. .. 1715 Innocent XIII.1721 Charles VI... 1711 1612 A.D. A.D. A.D. Charles VII. or Albert of Bavaria 1742 Francis 1. of Lorraine Clement XIV. 1769 and Maria Theresa of Austria.. 1745 Joseph II. 1765 Louis XVI... 1774 Pius VI. 1775 Leopold II. .. 1790 French Revolu Francis II. 1792 tion 1792 Pius VII. 1800 - Reduced to a Napoleon 1.8 1804 mere bishop by Buonaparte.. 1809 Louis XVIII. 1814 - Restored 1814 Charles X. .. 1824 Leo XII. .... 1823 8 64 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, καλόν 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. |