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MATTHEW CANTACUZENUS

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MATTHEW CANTACUZENUS , See also:Byzantine See also:emperor, was the son of See also:John VI. Cantacuzenus (q.v.). In return for the support he gave to his See also:father during his struggle with John V. he was allowed to annex See also:part of See also:Thrace under his own dominion and in 1353 was proclaimed See also:joint emperor. From his Thracian principality he levied several See also:wars against the Servians. An attack which be prepared in 1350 was frustrated by the defection of his See also:Turkish auxiliaries. In 1357 he was captured by his enemies, who delivered him to the See also:rival emperor, John V. Anglorum sive historia See also:minor (1067-1253) has been edited by F. See also:Madden (3 vols., Rolls See also:series, 1866–1869). Matthew See also:Paris is often confused with " Matthew of See also:Westminster," the reputed author of the See also:Flores historiarum edited by H. R. Luard (3 vols., Rolls series, 189o). This See also:work, compiled by various hands, is an edition of Matthew Paris, with continuations extending to 1326.

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life of See also:Edmund See also:Rich (q.v.), which is probably the work printed in W. See also:Wallace's St Edmund of See also:Canterbury (See also:London, 1893) PP. 543–588, though this is attributed by the editor to the See also:monk Eustace; Vitae abbatum S See also:Albani (up to 1225) which have been edited by W. See also:Watts (164o, &c.) ; and (possibly) the Abbreviatio chronicorum (1000–1255), edited by F. Madden, in the third See also:volume of the Historia Anglorum. On the value of Matthew as an historian see F. See also:Liebermann in G. H. See also:Pertz's Scriptores See also:xxviii. pp. 74–106; A. Jessopp's Studies by a Recluse (London, 1893) ; H. Plehn's Politische See also:Character Matheus Parisiensis (See also:Leipzig, 1897).

(H. W. C.

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