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Georgius

5. Brother to the emperor Michael IV., the Paphlagonian, before whose elevation George who was an canuch) was in a low condition, but was (A. D. 1035) after that event elevated to the office of Protovestiarius. On the accession of Michael V. Calaphates (A. D. 1041), he was banished to his estate in Paphlagonia. (Cedren. Compend. vol. ii. pp. 504, 512, ed. Bonn.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.