George Galesiotes

George Galesiotes (Greek: Γεώργιος Γαλησιώτης, c. 1275/1280−1357) was a high-ranking Byzantine official of the Patriarchate of Constantinople who studied under the tutelage of Manuel Holobolos.^[1] Upon becoming an official of the Patriarchate, Galesiotes was in charge of the sakellion of the Church from around 1330 and 1346.^[2] Along with being a Church official, Galesiotes also became an author of speeches and other works.^[3]

References

1. Kazhdan 1993, p. 408 (Note #14); Fryde 2000, p. 177.
2. Davis 2010, p. 69.
3. Kazhdan 1993, p. 408 (Note #14).

Sources

• Davis, John (2010). "Anna Komnene and Niketas Choniates 'translated': the fourteenth century Byzantine metaphrases". In Macrides, Ruth. History As Literature in Byzantium: Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. pp. 55–72. ISBN 978-1-40-941206-9.
• Fryde, Edmund B. (2000). The Early Palaeologan Renaissance (1261−c. 1360). Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9-00-411714-3.
• Kazhdan, Aleksandr Petrovich (1993). Authors and Texts in Byzantium. Aldershot, Hampshire: Variorum. ISBN 978-0-86-078362-6.