Alexios Kaballarios
Alexios Kaballarios or Kaballares (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Καβαλλάριος/Καβαλλάρης) was a Byzantine aristocrat and military commander, cousin of Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1259–1282).[1]
He participated in the Byzantine campaigns in the Morea in the early 1260s, and was taken prisoner by William II of Villehardouin after the Battle of Makryplagi (1263/64).[2]
Apparently released at some later date, in c. 1270, he held the offices of domestikos tes trapezes and governor in Thessaly or Thessalonica.[1][3]
Along with his cousin, the despotes John Palaiologos, he led a Byzantine army against John I Doukas of Thessaly, but was defeated and killed in the Battle of Neopatras in c. 1273/74.[1][4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c PLP, 10034. Καβαλλάριος, Ἀλέξιος.
- ^ Geanakoplos 1959, pp. 173–174.
- ^ Kazhdan 1991, p. 1087.
- ^ Geanakoplos 1959, pp. 282–283.
Sources[edit]
- Geanakoplos, Deno John (1959). Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West, 1258–1282: A Study in Byzantine-Latin Relations. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. OCLC 1011763434.
- Kazhdan, Alexander (1991). "Kaballarios". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. p. 1087. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.
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