George Acropolites

George Acropolites (born 1217, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died 1282, Constantinople) was a Byzantine scholar and statesman, the author of Chronike Syngraphe (“Written Chronicle”), a history of the Byzantine Empire from 1203 to 1261. He also played a major diplomatic role in the attempt to reconcile the Greek and Latin churches. Acropolites was reared at the imperial court, then at Nicaea in Asia Minor. Entrusted with important state missions under the emperor John III...