Michael Panaretos

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Michael Panaretos (1320 - ca. 1390) wrote a chronicle of the Trapezuntine empire of Alexios I Komnenos and his successors from 1204 to 1426. Panaretos was the protosebastos, protonotarios and grand economos in the service of Alexios III Komnenos. His chronicle is the only direct source on Trebizond and the history of this medieval empire was almost unknown until its discovery by Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer among the papers of Cardinal Bessarion in the nineteenth century.

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