134 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



Y. M.D, 



6. Amaurus, count of Afcalon, fucceedcd his fa- 



ther - 10 o o 



7. Baldwin IV. the Leper, fucceeded his father 13 o o 



8. B ildwin V. reigned only - -030 



under the proteftion of 



5. Guy of Lufignan, when the city of Jerufalem 

 WPS taken by afTiult, 2 Oft. 1187, and all 

 the Holy Land pafled into the hands of the 

 infidels. 



XT. Colchis, or the province of Trebizond, 

 was in the pofTcflion of Alexis Comnenus, with 

 the title of principality, under the emperors of 

 Conft nriiiople, when the French took that capi- 

 tal, in the year 1204. Alexis, feeing Conftanti- 

 nople in the hands of the French, made himfelf 

 fovereign of Colchis, wiihout however afiuming 

 the title ot emperor ; nor did the two princes 

 who fucceeded him. It was the fourth fovereign, 

 John Comnenus, who ufurped that title. Tre- 

 bezond therefore had nine emperors, who were, 

 I.John Comnenus; 2. Alexis Comnenus ; 3. 

 Bafil Comnenus-, 4. Bafil Comnenus II. 5. N. 

 Coiijntnus, the natural fon of Bafil II. 6. Alexis 

 Comnenus II. 7. Alexander Comnenus , S.John 

 Comnenus II. and 9. David Comnenus, who fur- 

 rendered all Colchis to Mahomet II. a conqueror 

 too powerful for him to withftand. Thus ended 

 the empire of Trebizond, after having laded 257 

 years. 



XII. The fmall empire of Adrianopolis was 

 founded in 1204, by Theodore Lai r caris, who 



had 



