George Akropolites [SEP] date 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
in southeast Anatolia. No precise information exists as to the place or date of his birth, but he speaks of himself as a native Byzantine, so one may assume that he was born either in Constantinople or in the Empire of Nicaea on the Asian side of the Bosporus. One recent study would date Meliteniotes' birth to between the years 1240 and 1250; another study suggests that he had, as a teacher, George Akropolites. Constantine Meliteniotes came from a fairly prominent Byzantine family; a number of men bearing his surname