Michael Panaretos

Michael Panaretos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Πανάρετος; c. 1320 – c. 1390) was an official of the Trapezuntine empire and a Greek historian. His sole surviving work is a chronicle of the Trapezuntine empire of Alexios I Komnenos and his successors. This chronicle not only provides a chronological framework for this medieval empire, it also contains much valuable material on the early history of the Ottoman Turks from a Byzantine perspective, however it was almost unknown until Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer discovered it in the nineteenth century among the manuscripts of the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice. "Owing to this drab but truthful chronicle," writes the Russian Byzantist Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev, "it has become possible to a certain extent to restore the chronological sequence of the most important events in the history of Trebizond. This Chronicle covers the period from 1204 to 1426 and gives several names of emperors formerly unknown."

Rayuwa

Duk abin da aka sani game da Panaretos shine abin da ya gaya mana a cikin tarihinsa. Ya kasance protosebastos da protonotarios a hidimar Alexios III Komnenos . Panaretos ya fara bayyana a cikin shigarwa a shekara ta 1351 lokacin da ya rubuta cewa ya tafi tare da mahaifiyar sarki Alexios III, Irene na Trebizond, zuwa Limnia a kan ɗan tawaye Constantine Doranites . [1] Abin da ainihin matsayin Panaretos yake a wannan lokacin ba tabbatacce ba ne, amma bayyanarsa ta gaba ba ta zo ba har sai yakin basasar Trapezuntine ya ƙare lokacin da ya rubuta cewa ya tafi tare da sarki Alexios III a cikin mummunar hari a kan Cheriana, wanda shi da kansa ya tsere da rayuwarsa.[2] Bayan haka, ya yi nuni da kansa ta hanyar amfani da mutum na farko da yawa yayin yin rikodin abubuwan da suka faru a cikin tarihin. Amma bai ambaci kansa da suna ba har sai shigarwarsa ta ranar Afrilu 1363: ya kasance wani ɓangare na ofishin jakadancin, wanda ya haɗa da magas logothetes, George Scholaris, wanda aka aika zuwa Constantinople don tattauna auren tsakanin ɗayan 'ya'yan Alexios da ɗayan' ya'yan sarki John V Palaiologos. Baya ga sarki, wannan ofishin jakadancin ya kuma sadu da sarki-monk John VI Kantakuzenos, Venetian podestà, da Leonardo Montaldo kyaftin din Genoese Galata a wannan tsari.[3]