George Sphrantzes

George Sphrantzes

George Sphrantzes (also Phrantzes or Phrantza, Greek: Γεώργιος Φραντζής, 1401-c. 1478) was a late Byzantine Greek historian. He was born in Constantinople. At an early age he became secretary to Manuel II Palaeologus; in 1432 "protovestiarius" (great chamberlain); in 1446 prefect 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", which like most Byzantine Chronicles begins with the creation of the world but is more detailed when talking of 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, civi"; see also C. Krumbacher, "Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur" (1897).

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* [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/30_20_1401-1478-_Georgius_Phrantza.html Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca with analytical indexes]


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