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PHRANTZA, GEORGE [GEORGIOS PHRANTZES] (1401-C. 1477)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 534 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHRANTZA, GEORGE [GEORGIOS PHRANTZES] (1401-C. 1477) , the last Byzantine historian, was born in
Constantinople
 . At an early age he became secretary to Manuel II. Palaeologus, in 1432 protovestiarius (
great
 
chamberlain
 ), in 1446 praefect of Sparta, and subsequently
great
 
logothete
  (
chancellor
 ). At the capture of
Constantinople
  by the Turks (1453) he fell into their hands, but managed to escape to Peloponnesus, where he obtained protection at the court of
Thomas
  Palaeologus, despot of Achaea. After the downfall of the Peloponnesian princes (1460) Phrantza retired to the monastery of Tarchaniotes in
Corfu
 . Here he wrote his Chronicle, containing the history of the
house
  of the Palaeologi from 1258-1476. It is a most valuable authority for the events of his own times.
Editions by I.
Bekker
  (1838) in the Corpus scriptorum hist. byz., and in J. P. Migne, Patrologia graeca, clvi; see also C. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).


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