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. 844 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 Louis XII. ..1498 Alexander VI. 1492 Maximilian I. 1493 Julius II. .... 1503 Francis I..... 1515 Leo X....... 1513 Charles V. 1519 Adrian VI... 1524 Clement VII. 1523 Henry II..... 1547 Paul III............. 1534 ... Charles IX... 1560 Pius V. Henry III... 1574 .... 1566 Maximilian II. 1564 Gregory XII. 1572 Rodolph II... 1576 1589 .... Urban VII... 1590 Innocent IX. 1591 Louis XIII. the Clement VIII. 1592 1610 1605 Ferdinand II. 1619 Gregory XV. 1623 Ferdinand III. 1637 8"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. |