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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE [GEORGIOS PHRANTZES] See also:PHRANTZA (1401-C. 1477)  , the last See also:Byzantine historian, was See also:born in See also:Constantinople . At an See also:early See also:age he became secretary to See also:Manuel II . See also:Palaeologus, in 1432 protovestiarius (See also:great See also:chamberlain), in 1446 See also:praefect of See also:Sparta, and subsequently great See also:logothete (See also:chancellor) . At the See also:capture of Constantinople by the See also:Turks (1453) he See also:fell into their hands, but managed to See also:escape to See also:Peloponnesus, where he obtained See also:protection at the See also:court of See also:Thomas Palaeologus, See also:despot of See also:Achaea . After the downfall of the Peloponnesian princes (1460) See also:Phrantza retired to the monastery of Tarchaniotes in See also:Corfu . Here he wrote his See also:Chronicle, containing the See also:history of the See also:house of the Palaeologi from 1258-1476 . It is a most valuable authority for the events of his own times . See also:Editions by I . See also:Bekker (1838) in the Corpus scriptorum hist. byz., and in J . P . See also:Migne, Patrologia graeca, clvi; see also C . See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897) .

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