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Also Known As George Akropolites
Born 1217 • Byzantine Empire
Died 1282 (aged 65) • Byzantine Empire
Subjects Of Study Byzantine Empire
Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Byzantine monk
John VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Nicholas I
Byzantine patriarch of Constantinople
John XI Becchus
patriarch of Constantinople
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
Athenagoras I
Greek patriarch
George the Monk
Byzantine historian
Michael Glycas
Byzantine historian and theologian
George Sphrantzes
Byzantine historian
Pope Innocent IV
Innocent IV
pope
Saint Nicephorus I
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Theodorus Lector
Greek historian
Dupin, engraving
Louis Ellies Dupin
French historian
Johann Adam Möhler, detail of a painting by Eduard Istas, c. 1830.
Johann Adam Möhler
German historian
Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
Saint John I
pope

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