Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

by Alexander Van Millingen

[716]. Nicetas Chon., pp. 753, 754; Ville-Hardouin, c. 52, 53.

[717]. N. Barbaro, p. 818.

[718]. 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).

[719]. Phrantzes, p. 254; Pusculus, iv. 190.

[720]. Codinus, De S. Sophia, p. 147; Anonymus, ii. p. 34.

[721]. Vol. ii. pp. 452-455.

[722]. Synaxaria, May 29.

[723]. Itinéraires Russes en Orient, p. 104.

[724]. Ducas, p. 293.

[725]. IV. 191.