[Footnote 105: He was born before the taking of
Constantinople, but his honorable life was stretched far
into the xvith century, (A.D. 1535.) Leo X. and Francis I.
were his noblest patrons, under whose auspices he founded
the Greek colleges of Rome and Paris, (Hody, p. 247 - 275.)
He left posterity in France; but the counts de Vintimille,
and their numerous branches, derive the name of Lascaris
from a doubtful marriage in the xiiith century with the
daughter of a Greek emperor (Ducange, Fam. Byzant. p. 224 -
230.)]