Niketas Choniates
Niketas Choniates | |
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 Choniates in a medieval manuscript | |
| Logothetes ton sekreton | |
| In office 1196/7 – February 1204 | |
| Monarchs | Alexios III Angelos Isaac II Angelos & Alexios IV Angelos |
| Preceded by | John Belissariotes |
| Logothetes tou genikou | |
| In office c. 1195 – c. 1196 | |
| Monarch | Alexios III Angelos |
| Epi ton kriseon | |
| In office c. 1194/5 | |
| Monarch | Alexios III Angelos |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Niketas Akominatos c. 1155 |
| Died | 1217 |
| Relations | Michael Choniates (brother) John Belissariotes (brother-in-law) |
Niketas or Nicetas Choniates (Medieval Greek: Νικήτας Χωνιάτης; c. 1155 – 1217), whose actual surname was Akominatos (Ἀκομινάτος), was a Byzantine Greek historian and politician. He accompanied his brother Michael Akominatos to Constantinople from their birthplace Chonae (from which came his nickname, "Choniates" meaning "person from Chonae"). Nicetas wrote a history of the Eastern Roman Empire from 1118 to 1207.