Alexios Apokaukos, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire

Alexios Apokaukos

Byzantine politician and military leader

Alexios Apokaukos, also Latinized as Alexius Apocaucus, was a chief minister and head of the navy in the Byzantine Empire, during the reigns of emperors Andronikos III Palaiologos and John V Palaiologos. Although he owed his rise to high state offices to the patronage of John VI…