[35] Manuel’s younger brother, Theodore, was never crowned and had been crushed by the Sultan, so that his beautiful wife, Bartholomæa, daughter of the Duke of Athens, does not enter our list; and as Bartholomæa had no children (though her husband had several) there was no complication of the new arrangement to be feared from that side. [36] Bertrandon’s interesting narrative may be read in English in T. Wright’s “Early Travels in Palestine.” INDEX A Acacius, 25 Æcatherina, 181 Aetius, 98 Agapetus, 40 Agnes, wife of Henry of Flanders, 257 “Alexiad,” the, 208, 216 Alexis II., 226, 233 Alexis III., 246, 248, 250 Alexis Angelus, 240–249, 251, 253 Alexis Comnenus, 198, 199, 200, 202–215 Alexius, 93, 94 Amalasuntha, 43 Amantius, 21, 22 Anastasia (Ino), 57, 60, 62, 63 Anastasia, wife of Constantine IV., 81, 83 Anastasius, 19, 21 Andronicus, 220, 227, 228–236 Andronicus II., 272–274, 276–295, 297 Andronicus III., 290, 292, 295–301 Andronicus IV., 318, 319, 320–322 Andronicus Paleogogus, 259 Anna Comnena, the elder, 197, 198, 199, 200–206 Anna Comnena, the younger, 192, 198, 199, 200, 207, 213, 216 Anna of Hungary, 276 Anna of Moscow, 326 Anna of Savoy, 298–316 Anna, wife of Alexis II., 224, 234, 236, 249 Anna, wife of Theodore Lascaris, 255, 256, 258 Anna, wife of Vatatzes, 261, 268 Anthemius, 11, 15 Anthimus, 40, 46 Antonina, 31, 41, 43, 45, 49 Apocaucus, 291, 301, 302, 305, 306 Ariadne, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18–20 Arsenius, 33 Arsenius the Patriarch, 269 Artabanes, 50 Asper, 1, 2, 9 Athalaric, 75 Augusteum, the, 4 B Baldwin of Flanders, 248, 252, 257 Bardas, 111, 113, 115, 117 Bardas, brother of Xiphilin, 184 Basil the Chamberlain, 155, 156 Basil the Macedonian, 117, 118, 120–123 Basil, son of Romanus I., 115 Basil II., 158 Basiliscus, 9, 12, 13, 14 Bassus, 48 Bayezid, Sultan, 323, 324 Belisarius, 28, 31, 40, 49 Bertha, wife of Romanus II., 139 Bertrandon de la Brocquière, 329 Bigleniza, 22 Blachernæ Palace, the, 110 Blues, the, 26, 36 Bogomilians, the, 211 Bohemund, 209, 211 Boniface of Montferrat, 252, 255 Bucoleon Palace, the, 150, 151 Buza, 49 C Candidates, the, 5 Casia, 107 Cathara, 290 Catherine Paleologina, 333 Chalcedon, Council of, 92 Chalke, the, 5 Charito, 58, 61 Charlemagne, 90, 92, 98 Christopher, 137, 138 Cleope of Rimini, 326 Comitona, 26, 31 Consistorium, the, 5 Constans II., 81 Constantina, 58, 62, 65, 66 Constantine, brother of Andronicus II., 273, 274, 275, 296 Constantine Catepano, 175 Constantine Copronymus, 83, 85, 86 Constantine Delassenus, 160, 168, 175 Constantine Ducas, 182, 183 Constantine the Paphlagonian, 130, 133 Constantine IV., 81 Constantine VI., 87, 89, 93, 95, 96, 97 Constantine, brother of Michael IV., 171, 173, 174