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Alexios Kaballarios or Kaballares (
Greek : Ἀλέξιος Καβαλλάριος/Καβαλλάρης ) was a
Byzantine aristocrat and military commander, cousin of Emperor
Michael VIII Palaiologos (
r. 1259–1282 ).
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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).
Apparently released at some later date, in
c. 1270 , he held the offices of
domestikos tes trapezes and governor in
Thessaly or
Thessalonica .
[1]
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 .
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References
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PLP , 10034. Καβαλλάριος, Ἀλέξιος .
Sources
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 .