THE 



T II 1 



in the fields round the town, and he was always 

 1 by a numerout conereg . 



l*o defended the orthodox faith with jrmit intrepidity 

 gint the attacks of tin- Annn-t and 



iiatelv after the death of Yaleiut, he wait 

 appointed bishop of Tartu* :f/H . Gratianua, the nmtaaoi 



lonit. 



WH at the Couiu-il nl Constantinople. The year of his 

 deutli i- nut kitovMi. i liriu* was chosen biV; 



Taiv - ' i- robable that In- died in tin 



em' 



lonis was much es 

 tor his plain ami lucid 

 known as tin i; 

 In- was accused of h.i 



made ar HI temporary 1 



Theodorus of ' -le iniiiu 



1 . .temporaries 



tqMMsce, but though he was 

 erenderoi the Catholic faith, 

 wn himself favourable to the 



work* 



uorals, none of which ha. 



said however that one of liis win' .vhieh 



believe* to be id i'h anotlur work on 



. vol. ii., ]' 

 :iii. :isi. i 



llll.ODO HI'S L. a unlive o: -:id -on of Theo- 



>p of Home 

 "f John I '> 



then empeior of Coiistanlinop 1 , 

 the Longolmrds in Italy. The heresy of the Mount! 

 wasdisiiiibing the church, and it was supported by the 

 emperor Coiistans. and by Pauhis, patriarch of 

 nople. Tin odoru- ln-ld a council at Home in G4H. in 

 which Panlus was excominunicavd. It does not seem 

 proved however that Theodoms condemned, as some have 

 averted, the typiu or edict of the emperor (-.'(installs, in 

 which he forl ade all his clergy from disputing on the siih- 

 of tin- two wills in Christ, the Monothchtes asserting 

 that there was only one v.iil in him. [ KITYCIIIANS. ] 

 TheodoniH built several churches at Home. He died in 

 ii-11), and was succeeded by Martin I. > Muratori, Annuli 

 '/ii : Pamimo. 1'ilr d ('.) 



THKOIHWI S II. , a native of Home, was elected pop,- 

 titter the death of Komanus, in August, S:>7, and dud 

 three weeks alter Ins election, and was succeeded by- 

 John IX. 



THKOnO'Ht S I.A'SCAKIS. emperor of N 

 descended from an antient and IP b!i- Uy/ami,ie ! 

 the early history of which is unknown. In lliix he mar- 

 ried Anna An:- the widow of I-aac Com- 

 uenu Sebastocrator. and the second daughter of the em- 

 peror Alexi.s 111., Angelus-Comneuus. v. J the 

 tlirone of ( 'oiisinntinople. alter having blinded and thrown 

 into a prison the emperor 1-aac Angelns f 1195J. Alexis, 

 'ii of I->a a :i:ily mid implored the protection 

 ol the Vcstcrn princes, who, in 12i --embled at 

 Venice for the purpose of n nc-'.v crusade. They promised 

 him assistance, and sailed to Constantinople with a p 

 fid fleet, commanded by Dandolo, the doge of Venice. 

 They laid siege to Constantinople, but although Thcodoin- 

 Law: d a vigorou- n \i-lll.. who 

 was ot a mean and ;1 his 

 capital and lit- id. inarqiii to, in 

 Italy, who had eodoia. A ailed by- 

 bold and experiencci' 



peror, tin- . aiann: tiu-v surrcn- 



dered their citpital, n<l did ho: 



I July and 1st , r_M:t . 



who reigned together under i . the Ijitin 



prim- .is Munophlus luid m 



pwtv among the Greeks, who were enraged at the haughti- 



i l\ .. 



I--'. i -.':.;' .1 !.: I M n '.".id -, mi pi ,eia:uit d IB 



1 

 HJh of February. I'Jol . Thi l-itms iiuniediati 



irvstantino 1 .:der of Hi 



friend ; and alt! 1 by Tin o- 



intimnent. Si 

 fled with bin treasures ' April, 13 M . and t 



h hiul re i the High) of Alc\is 111. once 



more dtscoiiraged the -id led to anarchy. 



Jwh'K period ol Isaac 



reigned tv .-mpeioiN succes-ivelv oi cnpied the 



and such wan the passion for ruling among the 



.1 moment 



:re vtas nt stake, two candidates pre- 

 sented themselves to t Vor the pur]nse of obtain- 

 ing the ciovMi. 



'J'hese caudida?. ..lore 



Ducaa, who wac ol linpeiial descent. IASCHIIS was pro- 

 claimed empcnv. but fearing: some in 

 the adherent- of the fugitive einpei 



Imperial tllie. niul det lai'cd he v. :is v -ll \\nii 



-pole' until he had re-entabh-hed trump.- 

 hile he eneourajfed the pi 

 - made aniussault an. 

 the Greeks having cowardly aband- 

 posts. Dm. of plunder and viol< 



don- I.Mraru escaped with his wife Anna, and fled to the 



L The Latins chose Baldwin, c 



of Flinders, eni[ n the 



capita mirth of the empire; the remaining ii 



fourths were divided between Venice find the Franki.-h 

 barons. 



ijwhile Theodore succeeded in raising tmoi 

 Asia, and, assisted by the Turks of Koniah, or leoniiu 

 made himself master of the important town of Nieai 

 M.-aler part of Hithvnia, proclaiming that he 

 only as despote. and in tfie name of Ins father-in-lav 

 ; Ali-xis III. Autumn, t'Jnl . 11^ 

 wen- .-non taken from him by Louis, eon 

 who, in the division of the empire, had received Hithytua. 

 and who defeated Theodore at Paemanene, on tin 

 of Mysia and Bithynia 'Oth of 1) 

 .ure retired to Hrnsa, one of the few towns whir. 

 not fallen into the hands of the count of Ulois : but : 

 pursued and obliged to fight with Henry, con- 



i:ie brother of the emperor Haldwin, who d> ; 



Theodore would have been ruined but for the victi 

 of the king of the Bulgarians and the revo 

 the troops of the emperor, who was obliged to call I 



nice of the count of Jilois and tin- 

 Hit hynift. Theodore again became must er of 1 1 1 . 

 and his father-in-law. Alexis 111., being then kept a pri- 



!>y tin- martinis of M 

 the title of emperor. 1 ' 

 lirwp 'Pui/iaiun; W'llieli 



of Constantinople, and he thus showed ih 



if a- the only iegitim. 



a right to the c.own by I. . ma. the il. 



111., who was ]ire\i : ruling on 



i;tivit\ . and all the other empi 

 tion being then dead. In order to solemnize In- 



linperial tluone. Alexis convoked a L - inbly 



of the Gieek bisho|)s, who met at Nicaea. The new patn- 

 areh, .Michael Aii'orienus. jiicsiiled, who had b. 

 patriarch for the special purpose of crowning . 

 the patriarch IVulvmoti ned. 



Meanwhile several Greek noble.-, jirotiting fix 



1 of the Greeks against the Latin i 

 made themselves independent in Asia. 1 

 Morotheodonis. ndelphia, and Ml 



ii\atli-cd-din. sultan of K 



by tin 



'iiird and more dangeron- 

 OoBHM-nns, who hail i 

 theyi 1 whose (>rotht ; 



as far as the 1'iopontis and the Ionian Sea. The-' 

 anil David were eipial in military skill, in activity 

 in pc : neither of them was dis< 



nor made less vigilant by Midden success. After 

 their ' ilei. David, appreciating the cl 



v. concluded an alliance with ! 

 empcior of I "01 ile. who ha 



brother Haldwin. 'i 

 and some time al'ti-rwaids David v. . 



;i by Guido Androm, 

 of Nieaea. Alle r the truce In ; 



in 1210, David, who had hitherto canitd oil tin war with 

 varioi: .died to give up all he] 



field any longer. He I" 



and his brother .'' obliged to c, , I, tl nl..fheo- 



i Jl I '.who thus : ister of tie artot 



1'aphla-. 

 The truce between Theodore and Henry was the cou 



