continus

†continus [? cf. It. conte] , title of potentate (? ‘Prester John’). 1457 Johannes Soldanus quondam Christianus, affinis deorum, Babilonie imperator, ~us Alexandrie Macedo, dominus dominacionum Africe [etc.] (Lit. ‘Soldani’) Reg. Whet. I 269.