• George Sphrantzes, also Phrantzes or Phrantza (Greek: Γεώργιος Σφραντζῆς or Φραντζῆς; 30 August 1401 – c. 1478), was a late Byzantine Greek historian...
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  • Caterina was betrothed to Constantine Palaiologos. The Chronicle of George Sphrantzes records the author himself arriving in Lesbos Island on 6 December...
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    childless. Despite attempts by Constantine's friend and confidant George Sphrantzes to find him a wife, Constantine ultimately died unmarried. The second...
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    were in the city and whatever weapons each possessed for defense. George Sphrantzes, the faithful chancellor of the last emperor, recorded that "in spite...
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  • friend and personal secretary George Sphrantzes, for instance, seldom has a charitable word for Notaras and Sphrantzes' antipathy was repeated in turn...
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  • Dedova as Katarina (season 1) Tuğrul Tülek as George Sphrantzes (season 1) İlayda Akdoğan as Therma Sphrantzes (season 1) Erdal Yıldız as Suleiman Baltoghlu...
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    to the chronicle of George Sphrantzes, Mara was going back to her parents when Murad II died, dating her return to 1451. Sphrantzes records that the widow...
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  • The marriage was recorded by both Doukas and George Sphrantzes in their respective chronicles. Sphrantzes records Hagia Sophia as its location. Manuel...
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  • island of Corfu. George Sphrantzes acted as a servant of Catherine's household for some time. Eleni Tzamblakina, the wife of Sphrantzes, was a second cousin...
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    University Press. ISBN 9780521522014. George Sphrantzes. The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes, 1401–1477. Marios Philippides (editor...
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    English: Geordie (diminutive), George, Georgie (diminutive) Estonian: Georg, Jüri, Jürgen Faroese: Jørundur French: Georges Finnish: Jori, Jyri, Jyrki, Yrjänä...
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    emperor, was overruled. Byzantine historian and Palaiologos loyalist George Sphrantzes then informed Sultan Murad II, who also accepted the ascension of...
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    being granted the Morea. Constantine thus sent his close adviser George Sphrantzes to propose the idea to both Demetrios and Ottoman Sultan Murad II...
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  • Press. ISBN 0-521-43991-4. Sphrantzes, George (June 1980). The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes 1401-1477. Univ of Massachusetts...
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  • Emperor is the same as that made by the real Halil Pasha as recorded by George Sphrantzes Halil Pasha is played by Selim Bayraktar in Netflix series Rise of...
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  • Maius (1573–75), an expanded revision of George Sphrantzes' Chronicon Minus with additional material from George Akropolites, Nikephoros Gregoras, and other...
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    the next Sultan, Mehmed II. In February 1451 the Byzantine diplomat George Sphrantzes arrived in Trebizond seeking a bride for his emperor, Constantine...
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    des Osmanischen Reiches" Edward Gibbon "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" George Sphrantzes : The Fall of the Byzantine Empire...
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  • Marios Phillipides, The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes, 1401-1477 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1980), p. 111. Steven...
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    married again, leaving Maria the previous empress. Doukas, History George Sphrantzes, Chronicle William Miller is error saying she "married the Byzantine...
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    him at least as early as February 1451, when the Byzantine diplomat George Sphrantzes arrived in Trebizond seeking a bride for his emperor, Constantine...
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  • She became a nun under the monastic name Eugenia. The chronicle of George Sphrantzes records the date of her death and her burial in the Church of Pantokrator...
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    dissertation, University of Western Australia. Failler, Albert, ed. (1984a). Georges Pachymérès: Relations historiques. Vol. 1. Translated by Failler, Albert;...
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    raised the flags of Zaccarias. The Byzantine contemporary historian George Sphrantzes recorded the renovation of the Principality in the following short...
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  • work, along with the writings of Doukas, Laonicus Chalcondyles and George Sphrantzes, is one of the principal sources for the Fall of Constantinople in...
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  • Michael Panaretos 15th century John Anagnostes John Cananus Laonikos Chalkokondyles Michael Critobulus Doukas George Sphrantzes Pseudo-George Kodinos...
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  • marriage in any other contemporary source, especially in the writings of George Sphrantzes, his chancellor. Although the legal contract was drawn up, the commune...
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    Thessalonica Michael Glykas Anna Komnene Joannes Zonaras George Kodinos George Sphrantzes Major centres Thessaloniki Athens Corinth Mystras Patras Thebes Arta Ioannina...
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    Thessalonica Michael Glykas Anna Komnene Joannes Zonaras George Kodinos George Sphrantzes Major centres Thessaloniki Athens Corinth Mystras Patras Thebes Arta Ioannina...
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    Megas Doux member of Notaras family Yiannis Ritsos (1909–1990), poet George Sphrantzes (1401–c. 1478), Byzantine historian Island of Monemvasia from the...
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