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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE [GEORGIOS PHRANTZES] PHRANTZA (1401-C. 1477)  , the last
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Byzantine historian, was born in Constantinople . At an early age he became secretary to Manuel II .
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Palaeologus, in 1432 protovestiarius (
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great chamberlain), in 1446 praefect of Sparta, and subsequently great logothete (chancellor) . At the capture of Constantinople by the
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Turks (1453) he fell into their hands, but managed to escape to Peloponnesus, where he obtained
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protection at the court of Thomas Palaeologus, despot of
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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
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history of the house of the Palaeologi from 1258-1476 . It is a most valuable authority for the events of his own times .
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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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