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of the West. He rose in the bureaucratic hierarchy until, in 1321, he was appointed the imperial parakoimomenos (chamberlain). His position made him useful to John Kantakouzenos, who included him in a conspiracy, together with Syrgiannes Palaiologos and the protostrator Theodore Synadenos, which aimed to depose the aging Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos in

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