Leo Kalothetos

Leo Kalothetos (Girkanci, 1315-1363) ya kasance gwamnan lardin Daular Byzantine .

Kalothetos ɗan asalin Chios ne, inda aka ambaci shi a karo na farko a cikin shekara ta 1315.  A wannan lokacin, tsibirin mallaka dangin Zaccaria ne na Genoese, waɗanda suka riƙe shi de jure a matsayin fief daga Sarkin sarakuna na Byzantine, amma kusan a matsayin yanki mai zaman kansa. A shekara ta 1328, Kalothetos ya tsere daga tsibirin kuma ya shiga cikin Sarkin sarakuna Andronikos III Palaiologos a Didymoteichon . Tare sun shirya dawo da Chios ta Byzantines. Tare da taimakon tawaye na jama'ar yankin da cin amanar Benedetto II Zaccaria, ɗan'uwan mai mulkin tsibirin Martino Zaccaria, jirgin ruwa na Byzantine ya sake dawo da tsibirin a cikin 1329. An kama Martino Zaccaria, kuma an sanya Kalothetos a matsayin sabon gwamnan tsibirin.  

Kalothetos tsohon aboki ne na John Kantakouzenos, babban aboki da kuma babban mataimakin Andronikos III. Sakamakon haka, lokacin da yakin basasa tsakanin Kantakouzenos da regency na John V Palaiologos ya ɓarke, an kore shi ta hanyar umarnin Alexios Apokaukos kuma an maye gurbinsa da Caloiane Civo . [1] Ya gudu ya shiga Kantakouzenos, kuma an tabbatar da shi a cikin 1345 tare da matsayi na protosebastos, a matsayin wakilin megas stratopedarches John Vatatzes . [1] Ya sake bayyana a shekara ta 1349, lokacin da ya ga yarjejeniya tare da Jamhuriyar Venice a Constantinople . [1] Daga 1348 har zuwa 1363, an nada shi gwamna na Tsohon Phocaea . A shekara ta 1358, ya shiga cikin al'amarin yarima Ottoman (şehzade) Halil, wanda 'yan fashi na Girka suka kama shi kuma suka tsare shi a Phocaea a cikin bauta. Kalothetos ya ki amincewa da bukatun Sarkin sarakuna John V don sakin Halil, har sai da ya karɓi hyperpyra 100,000 a musayar.[1][2] A wannan lokacin, Kalothetos yana da matsayi na panhypersebastos . [1]

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