Kammala wannan jumlar: An haife shi a 1745 a Melpeia na Messinia. Ya haɓaka ayyukan anti-Ottoman da wuri kuma a cikin 1770 ya shiga cikin Tawayen Orlov. Ya kasance abokin mahaifin Theodoros Kolokotronis, Konstantinos. Daga baya, ya shiga cikin shirye-shiryen Yakin Girka na Independence a Messenia kuma lokacin da hakan ya fara, yana gefen Theodoros Kolokotronis, wanda ya bi shi a ayyukan soja a Arcadia. Duk da tsufa, ya halarci yakin Valtetsi a watan Mayu na 1821 a matsayin shugaban mayakan Androusa da Leontari. An sanya shi a sansanin yammacin sansanin Girka tare da Ioannis Mavromichalis, P. Kefalas da Dimitrios Papatsonis, ya yi fice don kawar da hare-haren da sojojin Ottoman ke kaiwa. Daga baya ya shiga cikin
kewaye da kuma cin nasarar Tripolitsa. A cikin 1822, ya shiga cikin ayyukan da aka yi wa rundunar sojojin Mahmud Dramali Pasha. Saboda gudummawar da ya bayar, an nada shi chiliarch a 1823. A lokacin yakin basasa na Girka na 1824 <unk> 25, ya goyi bayan Kolokotronis kuma saboda haka, sojojin gwamnati na Georgios Kountouriotis suka kama shi kuma suka daure shi a cikin gidan sufi na Annabi Iliya a tsibirin Hydra. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan an sake shi a watan Mayu 1825, ya zama janar kuma ya shiga cikin ayyukan da Ibrahim Pasha na Masar.