George Kedrenos,Cedrenus orCedrinos (Greek:Γεώργιος Κεδρηνός, fl. 11th century) was aByzantine Greek historian. In the 1050s he compiledSynopsis historion (also known asA concise history of the world), which spanned the time from thebiblicalaccount of creation to his own day. Kedrenos is one of the few sources that discussKhazar polities in existence after the sack ofAtil in 969 (seeGeorgius Tzul).
Material inSynopsis historion mostly comes from the works byPseudo-Symeon Magistros(de) (a version ofLogothete'schronicle(de)),George Syncellus,Theophanes the Confessor, and, starting from 811, almost exclusively and word-for-word from the chronicle byJohn Skylitzes.[1]
One late manuscript ofSynopsis historion preserves a poem (anonymous but thought to be by Kedrenos) that derives his family name from the place where he was born, a small village of Cedrus (or Cedrea) in theAnatolic Theme.[2][3] The poem also identifies him as aproedrus, a senior court official.[2][3]
Before becoming a proedros, Kedrenos may have held the somewhat lower rank ofvestarches.[2] Vestarches Georgios Kedrenos is in fact known from a number of 11th–12th-centuryseals found mostly in theDanube region, but also inCrimea.[1][4][5][6] Furthermore, several roughly contemporary seals refer to another court official, a certain "John Cedrenus,protocuropalates andduke" who may have been a relative, perhaps a brother or a cousin.[2][7]
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