George Akropolites [SEP] place of death
George Akropolites
George Akropolites (Latinized as Acropolites or Acropolita; , "Georgios Akropolites"; 1217 or 1220 – 1282) was a Byzantine Greek historian and statesman born at Constantinople.
Life.
In his sixteenth year he was sent by his father, the logothete Constantine Akropolites the elder, to the court of John III Doukas Vatatzes, emperor of Nicaea, where Akropolites continued his studies under Theodore Hexapterygos and Nicephorus Blemmydes. The emperor afterwards entrusted George with important state missions, as did his successors (Theodore II Laskaris
Constantine Akropolites
Constantine Akropolites or Acropolites (, "Konstantinos Akropolitês"), son of the scholar and statesman George Akropolites, was a minister of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, until the Emperor dismissed him for his opposition to the union of churches created by the Second Council of Lyon (1272). Under the new emperor Andronikos II, however, Akropolites returned to favor; perhaps as early as 1282 he was appointed Logothete, and on the death of Theodore Mouzalon in 1294, Akropolites was raised to the title of