THE GREAT SEAL
THE GREAT SEAL
A PATRIMONY
IT IS a certainty that the first to use the BICEPHALOUS EAGLE [Two-Headed Eagle] were the LASCARIS EMPERORS who adopted it as their Emblem from a figure hewn out of the stone wall of a Hittite fortress in Asia Minor.
The origin of all the Imperial Bicephalous Eagles is Byzantium, the Second Rome. The Bicephalous Eagle was the property of the HOUSE OF LASCARIS who conveyed it to the Byzantine Empire and it is distinct from the anterior Augustan Eagle of the Roman Empire, the First Rome. It was introduced into Russia, the Third Rome, as a dowry on the occasion of the marriage of Sophia Palaeologos to Ivan III the Great, Grand Duke of Muscovy.
Following the demise of Communism, the Bicephalous Eagle
re-appeared as a Symbol of the Russian State. Nevertheless, it has independently endured
the test of time by its constant presence at the ancient Monasteries of Mount Athos, and
has emerged in The Americas, the Fourth Rome
or NEW BYZANTIUM.
The Each
ORDER
accountable to a: ______________________________________________________________
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HIS IMPERIAL AND ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE
THEODORE IX LASCARIS COMNENUS of
the Byzantine House of Constantinople with PRINCESS
GABRIELA reside with the Family in Venezuela. Prince
Theodore IX was by Primogeniture the HIGH PROTECTOR
of the House and all of its Institutions. These
include the UNION OF BYZANTINE ARISTOCRACY;
the ORDER OF SAINTS CONSTANTINE THE
GREAT AND HELEN; the ORDER OF SAINT
EUGENE OF TREBIZOND; and the INTERNATIONAL
PHILO-BYZANTINE ACADEMY AND UNIVERSITY
(IPHBAU). He was the GRAND MASTER
of the Constantinian Helenian Order, while his younger brother, H.
I. AND R. H. PRINCE JUAN ARCADIO LASCARIS
COMNENUS is the GRAND
MASTER of the Eugenian Order.
Rector DECLARATORY
INTRODUCTION COLOPHON ODERINT DUM METUANT
¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ On October 16, 1935, in the residence of Ricla in Spain. (Above appear the Greek leaflet and the
photograph including They may
consider to be "citizens"
within royal governance;
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BIOGRAPHICAL Juan Arcadio Lascaris Comneno (Ioannis Arkadios LASKARIS-KOMNENOS) was born
in 1926 in Zaragoza, Spain. He studied Sociology, Law and History and is
Doctor of Social Sciences and Doctor of Civil Law. He lived and worked in
Spain, U.S.A. and in countries of Central and South America. _________________
ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ Ο Juan Arcadio Lascaris Comneno (Ιωάννης
Αρκάδιος
ΛΑΣΚΑΡΙΣ-ΚΟΜΝΗΝΟΣ)
heads The
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Appointed Offices:
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Guardians of Byzantine Tradition and
Ideals,
A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
OF THE
INFLUENCE OF BYZANTIUM
THE weakening of the Ancient Greek
City States and the proliferation of the
Alexandrian Empire open the way for
the Roman Empire.
Constantine the Great becomes sole Emperor of the Roman
Empire, based on his military victory over Maxentius in 312 A.D.
outside of Rome.
Constantine moves the seat of the
Roman Empire from Rome to
Byzantium. The City becomes his namesake, that is, Constantinople and
together with the Empire they are known as the New Rome, the
Second Rome, the Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium, and carry the magical
name of Valentia.
The Fourth Crusade finds Byzantium sacked and occupied by
Western invaders from 1203 to 1261.
The Byzantine presence survives during that period by the
rise of two Empires. One is founded in Nicaea by the Lascaris
Dynasty and the other thrives in Trebizond under the Comnenus
Dynasty.
In 1261 Nicaean superiority recaptures Constantinople and
Byzantium lasts until 1453 when the City falls to the Ottoman
invaders.
Trebizond fares better and remains in power until 1461 when it
too falls to the same invading force.
There was also the cultural city of Mystras,
capital of the Despotate of like name, nestled on the first slopes of Mt.
Taygetos and adjacent to Sparta. It lasted from 1348 to 1460 when it too
succumbed to the Turk. The aggregate of all these final events marks
the true Fall of the Roman
Empire—yet, only in a
geopolitical sense and not ever in a socio-cultural sense. Witness
the enduring Western Civilization,.
The front line defense of the Western world thus fails and the Asiatic
non-Christian presence comes face to face with Europe at a
crucial geographical juncture. This problematic actuality casts long shadows on
dubious alliances attempted by Westerners with non-Europeans in that area.
The escape from Byzantium to the West of a large
number of intellectual and cultivated people brings about the Renaissance of
Europe. An expanding consequence of that, in Western terms, is the Discovery of
the Americas which establishes the inevitable reality that the New World is
NEW BYZANTIUM.
( March 26, 1886 - June 1,
1952 )
Prince Theodore IX was a Doctor of Laws and Philosophy; University
Professor at national and foreign educational institutions
[in the U.S.A. at
Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN]; critic; author; essayist;
writer of an acknowledged and far reaching trajectory; co-worker for international
publications in the country; had conducted conferences in various countries in the
Continents of Europe and America; and had received decorations such as the Order of
Miranda and others for his pedagogical work. He received Honorary Doctorates at Universities in Canada, the United
States of America, Argentina and France among others.
Among works published by the Prince are: The Problems and Teaching
of the United Nations and of UNESCO; Introduction to Philosophy and Greek
Philosophy; The Philosophies of Cultures and the Mass Societies; Historical
Juridical Study of the Independent Orders of Chivalry;
Philosophy of Venezuelan Education;
Fifth Centenary:
Encounters and Divergencies on the Half Millennium of Discovery of the New World..
by
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ON PROS AND CONS
OF THE
LASCARIS COMNENUS
By: Dr. Theodore Lascaris Comnenus. Valencia, Venezuela,
January 1, 1997.
Prior to the Spanish Civil War of 1936, a PRO-LASCARIS Committee established in
Madrid advanced the candidacy of my father, Prince Eugene Lascaris, for the Crowns of
Greece and Cyprus, particularly in the years 1923 and 1935.
In the post-World War II period, in 1946, he gave international character to the
Greek-Byzantine Institution of the Sovereign (i.e., Independent) Order of Constantine the
Great with its feminine branch of Saint Helen; and beginning in 1948, the Review PARTHENON
was published -- an organ of the "Greek-Spanish Cultural Association" with its
seat in Madrid.
In 1950, as a cultural extension of the Order, my father founded the "Philo
-Byzantine Academy and University Magistrorum."
In 1953 in Madrid was created the institute and magazine CONTRA-LASCARIS
presided by an ex-Falangist and ex-carlosoctavista named "Le petit Goebles," and
his "ad-latere" an author, who through a publication "Hidalguía"
presented themselves as implacable adversaries of Prince Eugene, of our Family, and of our
Institutions. Such a person wished to bring honor to his name by linking up with us
who unfortunately are not sectarian integristas.
Rodríguez Maseda affirms that fanatics in their ignorance border on IDIOCY, being capable
of the most incredible doings in word and in deed.
Those mentioned pertained to a group that in the fifties and sixties was led by a
politico and his ministers, members of the sect integrista nocedaliana, protected by the
totalitarian STATE.
The CONTRA-LASCARIS stem since '53 to date, developing a campaign based on contemptuous
insults, denigration and attacks on prestige. With ample financial support, they are
dedicated to sending letters and pamphlets everywhere using their
"executioners."
While the Lascaris Comnenus Institutions promote "Human Rights" and the
"Declaration of Rights of the United Nations," of the OAS and of UNESCO, in
favor of understanding, of the comprehension of fraternity, the integristas nocedalianos
CONTRAS are enemies of the truth, of reason, and of liberty, by submitting to fanatical
obscurantism, isolated from all logic.
As so wisely articulates the top advisor of President Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, when
personal attacks are launched, it is a deliberate strategy intended not to debate the real
problems. Which in our case is the defense of Human Rights, the freedom of
expression and union, as opposed to obscurantism.
More precisely, persecutions by word as well as by act is what gave strength to
Christianity. Only the PRO, or so to speak the POSITIVE produces thought and action.
CONTRA NEGATIVISM for its malignity is the DRAGON
that will be annihilated by our master Megalomartyr
Saint George of Cappadocia, renowned Captain of the PRO-LASCARIS OF BYZANTIUM.
(HATE WHOM YOU FEAR)
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The Colonel Contopirakis Aide-de-camp of General Plastiras; the countess
of Castellano; the Princess Nicasia; the Prince Eugene; Mr. Melioudis, Deputy; the
Count of Castellano; don Vicente Lope Onde and don Jose Orera de Ibarz.
members of the Greek Delegation dispatched to Prince Eugene II
Lascaris Comnenos in exile in Spain to accept as legitimate King the
throne of Greece as H.R.H. EUGENE A' KING OF THE HELLENES.)
NOTE:
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His written work is large and expands into areas such as Public Health and
Care, Literature, History of Spain and of the Byzantine Empire.
He is the author of "Collection of Legislation on Health" in
twenty-five volumes. His works were published in 1988 on "Legislation on
Personnel" 800 pages, and "Pharmaceutics" in two volumes in
1500 pages and in 1989 his work "Teaching and Research" 710 pages.
In the area of Social Care, the institution for Spain’s National Care has
honored him with the Prize for his work "Alvaro Lopez Nuñez and Social
Care in Spain."
His great Love for Greece, Byzantine civilization and Orthodoxy cannot
escape anyone’s notice.
There is also a long list of intellectual institutions that have taken
Ioannis Arkadios Laskaris Komnenos into their fold.
Many honorary distinctions and moral rewards have also been bestowed upon
him during his half-century of contribution to the scientific environment.
A lover of ecclesiastical fine arts, he devotes his free time in Byzantine
iconography.
He resides permanently in Madrid.
He is married to María Isabela de
Monroy-Blanco and they have two daughters, María Eugenia and Helena.
γεννήθηκε το 1926
στή Σαραγόζα
της Ισπανίας.
Σπούδασε
Κοινωνιολογία,
Νομικά και
Ιστορία και
είναι Διδάκτωρ
Κοινωνικών
Επιστημών και
Διδάκτωρ
Αστικού
Δικαίου. Έζησε
και εργάστηκε
στήν Ισπανία,
τις Η.Π.Α. και σε
χώρες της
Κεντρικής και
Νότιας
Αμερικής.
Τό συγγραφικό
του έργο είναι
μεγάλο και
επεκτείνεται
σε τομείς όπως
η Δημοσία Υγεία
και Πρόνοια, η
Λογοτεχνία, η
Ιστορία της
Ισπανίας και
της Βυζαντινής
Αυτοκρατορίας.
Είναι
συγγραφέας της
«Συλλογής
Νομοθεσιών
περί Υγείας» σε
εικοσιπέντε
τόμους. Τό 1988
εξεδόθησαν τά
έργα του «Νομοθεσία
περί
Προσωπικού» 800
σελίδων, και «Φαρμακευτική»
σε δύο τόμους 1500
σελίδων και το 1989
το έργο του «Διδακτική
και Έρευνα» 710
σελίδων.
Στόν Τομέα της
Κοινωνικής
Πρόνοιας έχει
τιμηθεί για το
έργο του «Αλβάρο
Λόπεθ Νούνιεθ
και η Κοινωνική
Πρόνοια στήν
Ισπανία» με το
Βραβείο τού
Εθνικού
Ιδρύματος
Πρόνοιας της
Ισπανίας.
Η μεγάλη αγάπη
του για την
Ελλάδα, το
βυζαντινό
πολιτισμό και
τήν Ορθοδοξία
δέν περνά από
κανένα
απαρατήρητη.
Μακρύς είναι
και ο κατάλογος
των
πνευματικών
ιδρυμάτων που
ενέταξαν τον
Ιωάννη Λάσκαρι
Κομνηνό στούς
κόλπους των.
Πλείστες
είναι καί οι
τιμητικές
διακρίσεις και
ηθικές αμοιβές
που του έχουν
επανεμεθεί στο
πέραν του μισού
αιώνα
προσφοράς του
στόν
επιστημονικό
χώρο.
Λάτρης της
εκκλησιαστικής
εικαστικής
τέχνης,
επιδίδεται
στις ελεύθερες
του ώρες στη
βυζαντινή
αγιογραφία.
Κατοικεί
μόνιμα στη
Μαδρίτη. Είναι
νυμφευμένος μέ
την Μαρία
Ισαβέλα ντε
Μονρόϊ-Μπλάνκο
και έχουν δυο
θυγατέρες, τη
Μαρία Ευγενία
και την Έλενα.
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to the
GRAND MAGISTERY
June 24, 2001
[left
to right]
DECREE
OF SUCCESSION
a) Older
than 18 years.
b) Will have taken steps whereby the surname
Lascaris would be incorporated in his name in the first place; which is to say, his descendants will always be able to be named Lascaris and will be able
to continue as members of the House of Lascaris Comnenus.
Given in Madrid on the twenty-fourth of June of the year 2001 of the Birth of the Savior or 7509 of the Era of Constantinople.
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DECRETO DE SUCESION
Artículo 1°
En caso de
imposibilidad física que no me permita atender debidamente las funciones de Gran
Maestre o a causa de mi fallecimiento, asumirá, de inmediato,
este puesto mi
hija primogénita la princesa Da MARIA EUGENIA ISABEL LASCARIS COMNENO
MONROY como Gran Dama Suprema de la misma.
Artículo 2°
así la condici6n establecida en el Apartado b) de la Constitucl6n Segunda.
Artículo 3°
asumido por mi segunda hija
la princesa Da Helena Isabel Irene, que hasta ahora desempeñaba el
cargo de Lugarteniente General.
Artículo
4°
Maria Eugenia
Isabel si reuniera las siguientes condiciones
a) Mayor de 18 años
b) Haber gestionado
que el apellido Láscaris sea incorporado a su nombre
en primer lugar, es decir, que
sus descendientes siempre puedan denominarse
Láscaris y puedan continuar siendo
miembros de la Casa Láscaris Comneno.
Artículo
5°
Si este varón no
existiera, pasaría al primogénito y varón de mi segunda hija
Da
Helena Isabel Irene siempre que cumpliera las condiciones señaladas en los
apartados
a) y b) del artículo anterior.
Artículo 6°
Si no existiera
ninguno de estos varones podría pasar a las hijas de ambas
siguiendo el mismo orden y condiciones.
Artículo 7°
Si no tuvieran
descendencia ninguna ambas princesas citadas anteriormente,
determinaría la
sucesión en el Gran Maestrazgo el Alto Protector de la Orden o Jefe de la
Casa
Imperial y Real de los Láscaris Comnenos.
Dado en Madrid, a veinticuatro de junio del año 2001 del Nacimiento del Salvador y 7509 de la Era de Constantinopla.
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THE
Perpetuation of the
Byzantine Idea incarnated in a Dynasty
JUAN PABLO LASCARIS JUAN ARCADIO LASCARIS It is an impossibility for the true Order of Saint Constantine
the Great and Saint Helen, which exists under the legal authority of The House
of Laskaris Komnenos of Constantinople, ever to come under the control or influence of the Vatican. This fact prevails despite the pointless efforts of frustrated detractors who attempt to propagate false arguments. Only the
House can abdicate or reassign its historical rights. An absurdity
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We suppose that Mr. Guy Stair Sainty publishes his defamatory page on account of his being Vice Chancellor of the Constantinian Order of the Two Sicilies; and by which he considers to have disposed of the Lascaris Comnenus -- true holders-in-trust of the authentic Order of Saint Constantine the Great, who have conserved and conveyed it from generation to generation until our days.
There is a great number of publications, writings, documents, etc. that attest to these facts. Bear in mind that the said Order of the Two Sicilies as also that held by the Bourbons of Parma are orders exclusively of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, but they can never be considered (as they declare) successors of the one founded by Constantine the Great, Emperor of Byzantium. To make this assertion it suffices to state (as it has been published already many times) that according to them it [the Constantinian Order] was purchased of an Albanian family that was said to be Angeloi (of the Angeloi of Byzantium), but whose real name was Span. Yet, as it can be proven, an Order can never be an object of a sale, and much less to be done by a family having no rights whatsoever to same. In view of these facts, the Lascaris Comnenus Family made the pertinent protestations; and thus it was recognized by the Senate of the Roman People (see the corresponding historic legal Registration in the Archives of the SPQR).
We wish to point out that if our Family had not the origin it claims: How is it possible in the course of the years always to have been recognized by the Greek People, hundreds of Greek institutions, centers, etc.?
Why was it that His Beatitude the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem granted the Grand Cordon of the Holy Sepulcher to the Princes Eugene II and Theodore IX; and His Beatitude Eireneos – for whom is felt a great friendship and affection – granted that Order to Prince Juan Arcadio?
Their brother, Prince Constantine, in view of his work to induce various American countries to vote for the independence of Cyprus, was appointed Consul of that nation in Costa Rica by the President of Cyprus, His Beatitude Archbishop Makarios. And, in recognition of his great cultural contribution the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Costa Rica in Solemn Session on April 1998 unanimously declared him “BENEFACTOR OF THE NATION.”
The brother, Prince Juan Arcadio, has been received during all of his sojourns in Greece with full solemnity by advocates and institutions. We cite that with the participation of the Greek Combat Veterans and in the custody of the Evzone Guard in Athens he placed a “Laurel Wreath” at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Greek Parliament building at Syntagma Square.
This Prince has been recognized as leader of the Hellenic patriotic movement of various Pontian groups of Greece, the United States, Ukraine, and other nations. Thus, the central Pontian Library, “Captain Eucleides,” at Aharnon in Athens has been put under his name, having himself attended the inaugural ceremony on May 11, 2003.
He was named member of Parnassus of Athens, addressing the corresponding conference of induction. He has addressed various conferences at the Grand Hall of the University of Athens and at diverse centers in Athens, Patras, Sparta, Mistras, Lamia, Volos, Larisa, Nafpaktos, etc. And in Athens this year, 2006, he celebrated his Birthday with the participation of more than three hundred persons and in the company of the former Prime Minister of Greece and of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Furthermore, in recognition of cooperation by his Hellenic compatriots, he has bestowed fifteen plaques of appreciation to as many personalities, including Mayors, Metropolitans of the Orthodox Church, and Generals of the Greek Armed Forces.
We do not wish to press on with more data from the immense number of activities the Family has brought forth. It will be said only that they number in hundreds of publications and works. In a word, the Family has not ceased in all their lives to demonstrate in ample form their great personal quality and great affection for their Hellenic motherland.
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THE DYNASTY
The HOUSE of LASKARIS has its origin in the
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FLAVIUS EMMANOUIL Prefect of the Orient ISAAKIOS I KOMNENOS IOANNES I ______________________ I I I Emperor (1183-1185) EMMANOUIL I MARIA KOMNENE Imperial Prince of Mysia, EMMANOUIL General of the Empire (1108) I I ___________________________ I I I I I I I I I THEODOROS II ______________________________________________________ I Emperor (1252); Emperor (1258-1261). 1st m - William Peter II I died a child in favor of the Laskaris. I 2nd m - Arnaud Roger I I I I I LASKARIS VEITNIMIGLIA Distinguished among them was I I Juan Pablo Laskaris Grand Master of Malta (1636-1656) LASKARIS RIBAGORZA THOMAS I I I I Prince Paraspondolos (1360). _______________ I I KONSTANTINOS I I (mil. governor) I ALEXANDROS GEORGIOS I DEMETRIOS KONSTANTINOS DEMETRIOS II NIKOLAOS ANGELOS IOANNES THEODOROS I I I I______________________________________________________________ I m. Alfredo Daniel EUGENIA m. Carlos Alberto  |
SPQR Archives: Roman Senate
Excerpt:
"The Constantinian Order, Subject of International
Law"
I.PH.B.A.U., Apartado
818, Madrid, Spain, 1996
By:
Professor J. Julius Koppany Santa-Pinter, Jurist
AND THE LASCARIS-COMNENUS
DYNASTY
The decision of the Supreme Court and College of arms of Costa Rica of
August 15, 1947 previously cited confirms (Paragraph
10) the filiation of the Lascaris-Comnenus Dynasty based on concrete documents,
authentic and true, not contested, and its princely category and other
preeminences as came to be respected in the West by imperial Documents (of
Germany), Roman pontifical bulls, royal decrees and by the Illustrious Roman
Senate and People "namely, of the German Emperors Frederick II in Linz,
Maximilian II in Ratisbona, Ferdinand II in 1630, Leopold I, Charles VI and III
as King of Hungary, April 5, 1720 and Joseph I, March 27, 1710; diplomas of the
Roman Pontiffs Callixtus III, Pius II, Sixtus IV, Innocentius VIII, Leo X, Paul
III, Marcellus II, Paul IV, Pius V, Sixtus V, etc. and Clement XI, January 6,
1709; and the Book of Decrees of the Illustrious Roman Senate and People
1392-1403, f. 140, 1436-1447, f. 113, 1515-1525 (May 16, 1525, Ind. 13),
f. 142."(8).
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