ABSTRACT
George Gemisttos died at nearly one hundred years old, so some events that must have happened already some 80 years earlier. The report about Gemistos’ banishment from Constantinople is more problematic, as Scholarios himself shows when he regrets that he was not sent into exile outside the empire. It is sometimes claimed that Gemistos was the general judge in Mistra; be it as it may, it is clear that he definitely had some important position at the Morean court. The reformatory Addresses, written in the following years, were directed to both the Despot Theodore II and the Emperor. This all leads to the conclusion that Gemistos was in fact charged with a mission in the Peloponnese by Manuel II in order to help his son in his difficult task and not that he fell into disgrace and was banished from the City because of some nonconformist beliefs. Equally problematic is Scholarios’ account of Elissaeus, the alleged teacher of Gemistos.
