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Rh COMNENUS COMNENUS. 823 1. Manuel Sebastocrator ; opposed the cruel policy of his father; put to death by Isaac II. Angelus ; married Irene. I 2. Joannes ; bom in prison, about 1166; destined to succeed his father ; put to death by Isaac II. An- gelus, in 1186. I I 3. Maria. 4. Thamar. 5. Alexis, and 6. Irene; both illegitimate. Irene married Alexis, the ille- gitimate son of the em- peror Manuel. I [. Alexis I., first Emperor of Trkbizond ; bom 1182; car- ried with his younger brother, by their aunt Thamar, to Trebi- zond, thence to the Caucasus ; conquered .Trebizond and a great part of Asia Minor in 1204 ; emperor in the same year; died in 1222 ; married Theodora. 2. David, a great general ; his brother's chief sup- port ; died without issue, probably in 1215. I. A daughter; married Andronicusl. GidonCora- nenus(II.),* Emperor, of unknown parentj^re, who succeeded Alexis I,, and reigned 13 years; died probably in 1235. 2. (III.) Joannes I. Axuchus, Em- peror ; succeeded Andronicus I. probably in 1235 ; reigned 3 years; died probably in 1238. (IV.) Joannicus; Emp. succ. his father probably in 1238; confined in a convent shortly afterwards by his uncle Manuel. 3. (V.) Manuel I., Emperor ; succ. his nephew Joannicns, probably in 1238 ; fomied an alliance with the Mongols ; reigned 25 years ; died March, 1263 ; raarr. 1. Anna Xylaloe ; 2. Irene ; 3. Prin- cess of Iberia. I. (VI.) Andronicus 1 1. Emperor, succeeded his father Manuel in 1263; reigned three years ; died probably in 1266. 2. (VII.) George, Em- peror, succeeded his brother Andronicus II. probably in 1266; reigned 1 4 years ; died probably in 1280. 3, (VIII.) Joannes II., Emperor, siicceeded his brother George, pro- bably in 1280 ; reigned 18 years ; died in 1297 or 1298 ; married, in 1282, Eudoxia, daughter of Michael Palaeologus, emperor of Constantinople. 4. Theo- dora. I. (IX.) Alexis II., Emp. ; bom in 1283 ; succ. his father Joannes II. in 1297 or 1298 ; died in 1330 ; married a princess of Iberia 1. (X.) Andronicus III., Emp.; succ. his father Alexis II. in 1330; reign- ed 20 months. (XI.) Manuel II., Emp. eight years old; succ. his father Andronicus III. ; deposed in 1333 by his uncle Ba- sil. 2. (XII.) Basil I. Emp.; 3. (XIV.) Anna ; sent to Constantinople ; first a nun, then returned ; deposed his queen of Imere- nephew Manuel II. in thia; wrested 1333 ; died in 1340 ; the crown from married, l,Ircne(XlII.) Irene in 1341; natural daughter of An- strangled by Jo- dronicus II., emperor of annes III. (XV) Constantinople ; repudi- ated soon afterwards ; seized the crown in 1340 ; reigned 16 months ; deposed and sent to Constan tinople by Anna ( X I V. ); 2. Irene, a lady of Trebizond, by whom he had issue 2. (XVI.) Michael, 3. George. Emp.; sent to Con- stantinople ; fruitless attempt to seize the crown ; imprisoned ; succeeded his son Joannes III. in March, 1334 ; deposed and confined in a convent, in De- cember, 1349. I (XV.) Joannes III., Emp.; bom about 1 322 ; wrested the crown from the empress Anna in Sep- tember, 1 342 ; confined in a convent in March 1344 by the nobles who put his father Mi- chael on the throne. 1. (XVII.) Alexis III. Joannes, Emp.; born 1 338 ; succeeded Michael in 1 349 ; died 1390 (?); married Theodora Canta- cuzena ; humbled by the Genoese ; under him lived Panaretus, mentioned above. I 2. Calo- Joannes. 3. Maria, married in 1351 Kutlu Bey, chief of the White Horde. [. Theodora, mar- ried in 1357 Haj- Emir, chief of Chalybia. crown.
 * The Roman numerals indicate the order in which the members of the family succeeded to the