Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
John Stuart Mill · en
Patriarch Constantius, _Ancient and Modern Consple._, pp. 85, 86. The
church was erected or restored by Maria, the natural daughter of
Michael Palæologus, upon her return to Constantinople, after the death
of her husband, the Khan of the Mongols. It has remained in the
possession of the Greek community, in virtue of a firman of Mehemet
the Conqueror, who presented the church to Christodoulos, the
architect of the mosque erected by the Sultan on the Fifth Hill (_Acta
Patriarchatus CP._, vol. i. p. 321, year 1351).
Footnote 719:
Phrantzes, p. 254; Pusculus, iv. 190.
Footnote 720:
Codinus, _De S. Sophia_, p. 147; Anonymus, ii. p. 34.
Footnote 721:
Vol. ii. pp. 452-455.
Footnote 722:
_Synaxaria_, May 29.
Footnote 723:
_Itinéraires Russes en Orient_, p. 104.
Footnote 724:
Ducas, p. 293.
Footnote 725:
IV. 191.
Footnote 726:
S. 55.
Footnote 727:
_Chroniques Græco-Romaines_, pp. 96, 97. Dr. Mordtmann thinks that
this point is referred to also in the Treaty of Michael Palæologus
with the Venetians in 1265, when that emperor allowed the Venetians to
occupy any point from the old Arsenal to Pegæ (ἀπὸ τῆς παλαιᾶς
ἐξαρτύσις μέχρι καὶ τῶν Πηγῶν). The passage is ambiguous, for there
was an old arsenal and a suburb Pegæ on the northern side of the
Golden Horn, and the concession was outside the city.
Footnote 728:
Edition of C. Weseler, Paris, 1874. Cf. Gyllius, _De Bosporo Thracio_,
ii. c. iv.
Footnote 729:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 720, 721.
Footnote 730:
_Itinéraires Russes en Orient_, pp. 88, 107, 108. Among its churches
was the Church of St. Conon (_Paschal Chron._, p. 721), memorable in
the Sedition of the Nika, as the church of the monks who rescued two
of the seven rioters condemned to death from the hands of the clumsy
executioner, and carried them across the Golden Horn in a boat to the
Church of St. Laurentius for sanctuary (Malalas, p. 473).
Footnote 731:
Desimoni, _Giornale Ligustico_, anno iii., Genoa, 1876.
Footnote 732:
Lib. i. c. 42; cf. Mordtmann, p. 43.
Footnote 733:
Nicetas Chon., iii. p. 722; Ville-Hardouin, c. 36.
Footnote 734:
_Ibid._, p. 754; _Chroniques Græco-Romaines_, p. 96.
Footnote 735:
_Ibid._, _ut supra_; Ville-Hardouin, c. 54.
Footnote 736:
Pachymeres, vol. i. p. 365; _Tafel und Thomas_, ii. p. 284.
Footnote 737:
_Tafel und Thomas_, ii. pp. 46, 348.
Footnote 738: