Comnenian

He had been Bonaparte's faithful confidant from the outset of his career, and could furnish a queen who boasted an ancestry no less distinguished than that of the Greek emperors of the Comnenian family.

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

After these losses, the emperors of the Comnenian family continued to reign from the Danube to Peloponnesus, and from Belgrade to Nice, Trebizond, and the winding stream of the Meander.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The branches that sprang from the Comnenian trunk had insensibly withered; and the male line was continued only in the posterity of Andronicus himself, who, in the public confusion, usurped the sovereignty of Trebizond, so obscure in history, and so famous in romance.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

Comnenian inheritance, escaped from the monster's den: Nice and Prusa,

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

By his wife Anne, a woman of masculine spirit and a policy, he left eight children: the three daughters multiplied the Comnenian alliance with the noblest of the

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

Manuel was usurped by an inhuman tyrant, who had deserved the abhorrence of his country and mankind: the sword of William the Second, the grandson of Roger, was drawn by a fugitive of the Comnenian race; and the subjects of Andronicus might salute the strangers as friends, since they detested their sovereign as the worst of enemies.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The policy of Roger solicited a public and private union with the Greek princes, whose alliance would dignify his regal character: he demanded in marriage a daughter of the Comnenian family, and the first steps of the treaty seemed to promise a favorable event.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

Comnenian dynasty that a faint emulation of knowledge and military virtue was rekindled in the Byzantine empire.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The successors of Theophilus, of the Basilian and Comnenian dynasties, were not less ambitious of leaving some memorial of their residence; and the portion of the palace most splendid and august was dignified with the title of the golden triclinium.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

While the Roman empire was attacked by the Turks in the East, east, and the Normans in the West, the aged successor of Michael surrendered the sceptre to the hands of Alexius, an illustrious captain, and the founder of the Comnenian dynasty.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765