Chandler's Travels into Asia Minor, p.

267.)] [Footnote 10: See Acropolita, (c.

75, 76, &c.,) who lived too near the times; Pachymer, (l.i.c.

13--25,) Gregoras, (l.iii.c.3, 4, 5.)] Of those who are proud of their ancestors, the far greater part must be content with local or domestic renown; and few there are who dare trust the memorials of their family to the public annals of their country.
As early as the middle of the eleventh century, the noble race of the Palaeologi [11] stands high and conspicuous in the Byzantine history: it was the valiant George Palaeologus who placed the father of the Comneni on the throne; and his kinsmen or descendants continue, in each generation, to lead the armies and councils of the state.

The purple was not dishonored by their alliance, and had the law of succession, and female succession, been strictly observed, the wife of Theodore Lascaris must have yielded to her elder sister, the mother of Michael Palaeologus, who afterwards raised his family to the throne.