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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Gennadius Scholarius, Giorgio da Sebenico, Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say, Anne of Armagnac, John Cantius, Helena Palaiologina of Morea, Diego Fernandez de la Cueva, 1st Viscount of Huelma, John V, Count of Armagnac, Conrad Paumann, John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, James II of Cyprus, Risdeard de Burca, Alessandro Sforza, Hosokawa Katsumoto, Arnold, Duke of Guelders, Yamana S zen, Pierre d'Amboise, Henry the Peaceful, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Adolph I, Prince of Anhalt-Kothen, Andrew de Durisdeer, Reinoud II van Brederode, Heinrich Birnbaum, Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow, Xilomantzin, Moquihuix, Marie of Armagnac, John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Nikolaus Gerhaert, John Brugman, Nicolo Tron, Jean Jouffroy, Contessina de' Bardi, Jean, Count of Harcourt, Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine, Jean II de Croy, John Martyn, Elizabeth Woodville, Countess Rivers, Ralph Boteler, 1st Baron Sudeley, Jean Juvenal des Ursins, Niccolo Fortiguerra, Martial Auribelli, Marie de Valois, Jean de Lescun. Excerpt: Gennadius II (in Greek ') (lay name Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios, in Greek ) (c. 1400 - c. 1473), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1454 to 1464, philosopher and theologian, was one of the last representatives of Byzantine learning, and a strong advocate of Aristotelian philosophy in the Eastern Church. Georgios is believed to have been born in Constantinople in c.1400 and had been a teacher of philosophy before entering the service of the emperor John VIII Palaeologus as a theological advisor. Georgios first appears in history when, as judge in the civil courts under John VIII (1425-1448), he accompanied his Emperor to the Council of Basel, held in 1438-1439 in Ferrara and Florence. The object of this endeavor was bringing a union between the Greek and Latin Churches, wh...
