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See also:PHRANTZA, See also:GEORGE [GEORGIOS PHRANTZES] (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 (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
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 (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape to See also:Peloponnesus, where he obtained See also:protection at the See also:court of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Palaeologus, See also:despot of See also:Achaea. After the downfall of the Peloponnesian princes (1460) 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).
End of Article: PHRANTZA, GEORGE [GEORGIOS PHRANTZES] (1401-C. 1477)
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