Note 031
In the panegyric of Berengarius (Muratori, Script. Rer. Ital. tom. ii. P. i. p. 408) a Roman is mentioned as consulis natus in the beginning of the xth century. Muratori (Dissert. v.) discovers, in the years 952 and 956,

Gratianus in Dei nomine consul et dux, Georgius consul et dux;

and in 1015, Romanus, brother of Gregory VIII., proudly, but vaguely, styles himself

consul et dux et omnium Roma norum senator

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 69