# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-sphrantzes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:38:05.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-sphrantzes"
name: "George Sphrantzes"
slug: "george-sphrantzes"
description: "George Sphrantzes, also Phrantzes or Phrantza, was a late Byzantine Greek historian and Imperial courtier. He was an attendant to Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos, protovestiarites under John VIII Palaiologos, and a close confidant to Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor. He was an eyewitness of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, enslaved by the victorious Ottomans, 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."
tagline: "Byzantine historian"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1401-08-30"
deathDate: "1477"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.269446172993155
  historical:           19.79852933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump