George Sphrantzes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Sphrantzes

Byzantine historian

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1401

Place of Birth: Constantinople

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

George Sphrantzes, also Phrantzes or Phrantza (Greek: Ge?????? Sf?a?t??? or F?a?t???; 1401 – c.
1478), was a late Byzantine Greek historian and Imperial courtier.
He was an attendant to Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, protovestiarites ("Lord of the Imperial Wardrobe") under John VIII Palaiologos, and a close confidant to Constantine XI Palaiologos.
He was an eyewitness of the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, made a slave by the victorious Turks, but ransomed shortly afterwards.
Sphrantzes served the surviving members of the Palaiologian family for the next several years until taking monastic vows in 1472.
It was while a monk he wrote his history, which ends with the notice of Sultan Mehmed II's attempt to capture Naupaktos, which he dates to the summer of 1477; Sphrantzes is assumed to have died not long after that event.