Kōnstantinos (?) Tarōneitēs
Date of Birth: Unknown: early 14th century
Place of Birth: Unknown
Date of Death: Unknown
Place of Death: Unknown
Biography
Our knowledge of Taronites derives from a letter that Gregory Palamas sent to his flock in Thessaloniki during his captivity in Ottoman Anatolia. From what Palamas says, Taronites was a Christian physician in the service of the Ottoman ruler (ho megas amēras, the great emir) Orhan I. When the…