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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giovanni
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- medieval Greek
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- date of birth
- 1143-01-01
- date of death
- 1185-00-00
- writing language
- medieval Greek
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
John Kinnamos or Joannes Kinnamos or John Cinnamus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Κίνναμος or Κίναμος; born shortly after 1143, died after 1185), was a Byzantine historian. He was imperial secretary (Greek "grammatikos", most likely a post connected with the military administration) to Emperor Manuel I (1143–1180), whom he accompanied on his campaigns in Europe and Asia Minor. It appears that Kinnamos outlived Andronikos I, who died in 1185.
Kinnamos was the author of a history that covered the years 1118–1176, thereby continuing the Alexiad of Anna Komnene, and covering the reigns of John II and Manuel I, until Manuel's unsuccessful campaign against the Turks, which ended in defeat at the Battle of Myriokephalon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Kinnamos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.