The treaty left Kallergis as the virtual ruler of the Orthodox population of Crete ; the contemporary chronicler Michael Louloudes , who fled to Crete when Ephesus fell to the Turks , calls him " Lord of Crete " , and mentions him right after the Byzantine emperor , Andronikos II Palaiologos . Kallergis steadfastly honoured the terms of the treaty , and remained conspicuously loyal to Venice thereafter . His intervention prevented another revolt from breaking out in 1303 , following the destructive earthquake of that year , that had left the Venetian authorities in disarray . Later , in 1311 , a letter by the Duke of Crete requests of him to gather information about insurrectionist agitation in Sfakia . When another revolt broke out in Sfakia in 1319 , Kallergis interceded with the rebels and Duke Giustiniani to put an end to it . On the same year , minor uprisings by the Vlastoi and Barouches were also ended after Kallergis ' intervention . The Venetians rewarded him by inscribing his family into the '' Libro d'Oro '' of the Venetian nobility , but Kallergis ' loyalty to Venice provoked the enmity of the other great Cretan families , who tried to assassinate him at Mylopotamos . Alexios Kallergis therefore spent his last years , until his death in 1321 , in Candia . His enemies continued to try to assassinate him , but only managed to kill his son , Andreas , with many of his entourage
destructive earthquake
1303 Crete earthquake
Kingdom of Candia