He was the last Venetian margrave to actually rule before the Ottoman Turkish conquest.
He was the son of either Francis or Jacob, brothers and successive margraves of Bodonitsa.
He was a prisoner at the court of the Sultan Mehmet I in Adrianople, but was released in accordance with a treaty with Venice.
He then ruled for a short while before his territory, which guarded the important pass of Thermopylae, was conquered on 20 June 1414.
However, he ceded his rights to Bodonitsa to his uncle Nicholas III in return for the rectorate of Pteleon.