Three years before his death he made out the distribution of his treasures, his money, his wardrobe, and all his furniture, in the presence of his friends and his officers, in order that their voice might insure, after his death, the execution of this partition, and he set down his intentions in this respect in a written summary, in which he massed all his riches in three grand lots.

The first two were divided into twenty-one portions, which were to be distributed amongst the twenty-one metropolitan churches of his empire.

After having put these first two lots under seal, he willed to preserve to himself his usual enjoyment of the third so long as he lived.

But after his death or voluntary renunciation of the things of this world, this same lot was to be subdivided into four portions.

His intention was, that the first should be added to the twenty-one portions which were to go to the metropolitan churches; the second set aside for his sons and daughters, and for the sons and daughters of his sons, and redivided amongst them in a just and proportionate manner; the third dedicated, according to the usage of Christians, to the necessities of the poor; and, lastly, the fourth distributed in the same way, under the name of alms, amongst the servants, of both sexes, of the palace for their lifetime.