Asomatianos Tzamplakon ( el, , ) was a

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aristocrat and admiral during the Byzantine–Genoese War of 1348–1349. 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 ...

, Asomatianos' father, was this man's son.Kazhdan (1991), p. 2135PLP 27753 His brothers,

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and

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, also achieved high offices during the same period.Guilland (1967), p. 550 Asomatianos is first attested in 1348, as '' megas doux'' (commander-in-chief of the

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). He was placed in charge of the Byzantine effort to construct a new fleet to use against the Genoese colony of

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in the Byzantine–Genoese War of 1348–1349. His fleet's inexperience and incompetence led to its destruction or capture by the Genoese. Tzamplakon survived the debacle, and died sometime before 1356.

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