John Angelos () was a part of the komnenos family and was a senior official of the

Empire of Nicaea The Empire of Nicaea (), also known as the Nicene Empire, was the largest of the three Byzantine Greeks, Byzantine Greek''A Short history of Greece from early times to 1964'' by Walter Abel Heurtley, W. A. Heurtley, H. C. Darby, C. W. Crawley, C ...

. Of low birth, he was one of the favourites of Emperor

Theodore II Laskaris Theodore II Laskaris or Ducas Lascaris (; November 1221/1222 – 16 August 1258) was Emperor of Nicaea from 1254 to 1258. He was the only child of Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes and Empress Irene Laskarina. His mother was the eldest da ...

(r. 1254–58), who promoted him to the rank of '' prōtostratōr'' in 1255, from the rank of '' megas primikērios''. He died soon after Theodore's death, possibly committing suicide when the nobles under Michael Palaiologos took power.

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