Demetrios Tzamplakon ( el, Δημήτριος Τζαμπλάκων, ) was a

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aristocrat and senior military leader. The Tzamplakones were an important and wealthy aristocratic family attested since the mid-13th century, when one of its members achieved the high military rank of

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Alexios Tzamplakon Alexios Tzamplakon ( el, , ) was a Byzantine aristocrat and high official. Life The Tzamplakones were an important and wealthy aristocratic family attested since the mid-13th century, when one of its members achieved the high military rank of D ...

, Demetrios' father, was this man's son. His brothers, Asomatianos and

Arsenios Arsenius (Latinized form) and Arsenios (Greek form) is a male first name. It is derived from the Greek word ''arsenikos'' (ἀρσενικός), meaning "male", "virile".

, also achieved high offices during the same period. Demetrios was married to Eudokia Palaiologina and had several children, whose names are unknown. One of his daughters married a certain Nikephoros Laskaris, attested at Christoupolis (modern

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) in 1366/67. Demetrios is first attested in 1345, already holding the senior military rank of '' megas stratopedarches'', during the siege of Serres by the forces of the

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ruler

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. A large part of the city's population, under Manuel Asen, wanted to surrender the city to the Serbs, while Tzamplakon led the loyalist faction. After the city's fall, he withdrew to Christoupolis, and is still attested in the 1360s. He donated his extensive lands in Macedonia to the

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Demetrios Demetrius is the Latinized form of the Ancient Greek male given name ''Dēmḗtrios'' (), meaning “Demetris” - "devoted to goddess Demeter". Alternate forms include Demetrios, Dimitrios, Dimitris, Dmytro, Dimitri, Dimitrie, Dimitar, Dumit ...

Medieval Macedonia Megaloi stratopedarchai