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 Rh derived some revenue from his silver mines: and his family is celebrated by the Greeks as the most ancient and noble of the Teutonic name. After the death of this childless princess, Andronicus souscht in marriage, Jane, the sister of the count of Savoy: and his suit was preferred to that of the French king. The count respected in his sister the superior majesty of a Roman empress; her retinue was composed of knights and ladies : she was regenerated and crowned in St. Sophia, under the more orthodox appellation of Anne ; and, at the nuptial feast, the Greeks and Italians vied with each other in the martial exercises of tilts and tournaments.

The empress Anne of Savoy survived her husband. Their son, John Palaeologus, was left an orphan and an emperor, in the ninth year of his age ; and his weakness was protected by the first and most deserving of the Greeks. The long and cordial friendship of his father for John Cantacuzene is alike

honourable to the prince and the subject. It had been formed amidst the pleasures of their youth; their families were almost equally noble; and the recent lustre of the purple was amply compensated by the energy of a private education. We have seen that the young emperor was saved by Cantacuzene from the power of his grandfather ; and, after six years of civil war, the same favourite brought him back in triumph to the