1054 Victor II..... 1054

Stephen IX... 1057 Henry IV. the

Great

1057

Constantine IX.1059

Romanus III. 1068

Alexander II. 1061

Michael VI. 1071
Alexius Com-

Gregory VII. 1073 Rodolph

Pascal II. 1099 Henry V..... 1106

Gelasius II... 1118

John Comnenus 1118

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.

866 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.

A.D.

thus continued in a Innocent VIII. 1484

French dynasty.

Charles VIII. 1494 Alexander VI. 1492 Maximilian I. 1493
Louis XII.
Pius III..... 1503
Julius II.

..1498

....

1503

Francis I..... 1515 Leo X.................. 1513 Charles V.

Louis XV. .. 1715 Innocent XIII.1721 Charles VI... 1711

Louis XVI... 1774 Pius VI. .... 1775 Leopold II...

1790

French Revolu

1800

866

1814

1823

"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.