Constantinople, it was ruled by a family closely related to the Komnenoi, the Palaiologoi. The Palaiologoi ruled until the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The last descendant of the dynasty is often considered to have been John Komnenos Molyvdos, a distinguished Ottoman Greek scholar and physician, who became metropolitan bishop of Side and Dristra, and died in 1719. In 1782, the Corsican Greek notable Demetrio Stefanopoli obtained letters patent from Louis XVI of France recognizing him as the descendant and heir of the Emperors of Trebizond. Komnenian ancestry in Western Europe Irene Angelina, daughter of Isaac II Angelos and thus a descendant of Alexios I Komnenos, married Philip of Swabia (1177–1208), the King of Germany. From this union many of the royal and aristocratic families of Western Europe can trace a line of descent. Family tree of the House of Komnenos {{Tree chart | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | C10 | | Sof |~| Man |C10=Constantine X DoukasByzantine emperor (1059–1067)|Sof=Sofia DoukainaHOUSE OF DOUKAS|Man=Manuel Erotikos Komnenosgeneral'HOUSE OF KOMNENOS}} See also History of the Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire under the Komnenos dynasty Empire of Trebizond References Citations Sources Cameron, Averil (Ed.) (2003) Fifty Years of Prosopography: The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond'', Oxford University Press.