Alexios Kaballarios orKaballares (Ancient Greek:Ἀλέξιος Καβαλλάριος/Καβαλλάρης) was aByzantine aristocrat and military commander, cousin of EmperorMichael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1259–1282).[1]

He participated in the Byzantine campaigns in theMorea in the early 1260s, and was taken prisoner byWilliam II of Villehardouin after theBattle of Makryplagi (1263/64).^[2]

Apparently released at some later date, inc. 1270, he held the offices ofdomestikos tes trapezes and governor inThessaly orThessalonica.^[1][3]

Along with his cousin, thedespotesJohn Palaiologos, he led a Byzantine army againstJohn I Doukas ofThessaly, but was defeated and killed in theBattle of Neopatras inc. 1273/74.[1]^[4]

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