often been confused, including in relatively modern studies, with the protovestiarios Michael Tarchaneiotes, a nephew of Michael VIII Palaiologos () who was killed in 1283. Glabas was remembered by his contemporaries as an excellent soldier: the historian Nikephoros Gregoras claims that his military experience made the other generals "look like children". Philes also records that he had written a now lost treatise on "various military topics", one of the last attested examples in the long tradition of Byzantine military manuals. References Sources 1230s births 1300s deaths 13th-century Byzantine people 14th-century Byzantine people Byzantine generals Byzantine governors Michael Eastern Orthodox monks Byzantine people of the Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars 13th-century Byzantine writers Medieval Greek military writers Protostratores Michael Tarchaneiotes Megaloi konostauloi Pinkernai 14th-century Byzantine monks