Note 186 — Chapter I · —How the King of France cajoled the English after the Duke of Burgundy’s Death, for fear they should have interrupted him in the Conquest of the Territories belonging to the said Duke.—1477. (continued 2)

Constantine Palæologus XIV., surnamed Dragases, was born in February, 1403, and succeeded to his father’s throne in November, 1448. He fought bravely in defence of his capital, and when he found resistance unavailing, “he folded around him the imperial mantle, and remembered the name which he represented in the dignity of heroic death.”