e of his life.

The Robartes or Roberts family became extinct in the male line in
1757; but Mary Vere Robartes, daughter of the Hon. Russell Robartes,
married Thomas Hunt, of Mollington, and left issue Thomas Hunt, who
had an only child, Anna Maria, who married Charles Reginald Agar,
third son of James, Viscount Clifden, and carried the wealth of the
Robartes family into that of Agar; and in 1822 Thomas James Agar, her
son, assumed the name and arms of Robartes, and was created Baron
Robartes of Lanhydrock and Truro in 1869. The descent is, however, so
remote and through females, that the present family can hardly be
considered to represent the original Robertes or Roberts stock.




                          THEODORE PALEOLOGUS


In the church of Landulph is a small brass attached to the wall that
bears the following inscription: "Here lyeth the body of Theodore
Paleologus, of Pesaro in Italye, descended from y^e Imperyal lyne of y^e
last Christian emperors of Greece, being the sonne of Camillio, y^e
sonne of Prosper, the sonne of Theodoro, the sonne of John, y^e sonne of
Thomas, second brother of Constantius Paleologus, the 8^{th} of that
name, and last of y^e lyne y^t rayned in Constantinople until subdued by
the Turks, who married w^t Mary, y^e daughter of William Balls, of
Hadlye in Souffolke, Gent., and had issue 5 children, Theodore, John,
Ferdinando, Maria, and Dorothy; and departed this life at Clyfton, y^e
21^{st} of Jan^y 1636." Above the inscription are the imperial arms of
the empire of Byzantium--an eagle displayed with two heads, the two legs
resting upon two gates; the imperial crown over the whole, and between
the gates a crescent, for difference as second son.

There were eight Emperors of the East of the family of the Paleologi.
The family descended from a General Andronicus Paleologus, who died in
1246. The Emperor Manuel, who deceased in 1425, had five sons: John II,
Emperor, who died in 1449; Theodore, despot in Lacedemon; Andronicus,
despot in Thessalonica; Constantine, despot of the Morea.