[Footnote !: On the revolutions of Trebizond under the later
empire down to this period, see Fallmerayer, Geschichte des
Kaiserthums von Trapezunt, ch. iii. The wife of Manuel fled
with her infant sons and her treasure from the relentless
enmity of Isaac Angelus. Fallmerayer conjectures that her
arrival enabled the Greeks of that region to make head
against the formidable Thamar, the Georgian queen of Teflis,
p. 42. They gradually formed a dominion on the banks of the
Phasis, which the distracted government of the Angeli
neglected or were unable to suppress. On the capture of
Constantinople by the Latins, Alexius was joined by many
noble fugitives from Constantinople. He had always retained
the name of Caesar. He now fixed the seat of his empire at
Trebizond; but he had never abandoned his pretensions to the
Byzantine throne, ch. iii. Fallmerayer appears to make out a
triumphant case as to the assumption of the royal title by
Alexius the First. Since the publication of M. Fallmerayer's
work, (Munchen, 1827,) M. Tafel has published, at the end of
the opuscula of Eustathius, a curious chronicle of Trebizond
by Michael Panaretas, (Frankfort, 1832.) It gives the
succession of the emperors, and some other curious
circumstances of their wars with the several Mahometan
powers. - M.]
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