Melchisedek Tsouderos [SEP] conflict
Melchisedek Tsouderos
Melchisedek Tsouderos (; 1769-1823) was a Greek monk and fighter of the Greek War of Independence from Crete. He was killed in 1823 in a battle with the Ottoman forces.
Biographical information.
He was born in 1769. His name was Michael and he had origins from the historic Tsouderos family. He was the third son of Emmanouil Tsouderos and had three more brothers named Georgios, Ioannis and Nikolaos. In 1810 he became a monk with the monastic name Melchisedek in Preveli Monastery, which had
its conflict against Russia, couldn't intervene in a significant way in Crete. It preferred to follow the advice of Great Britain and send two emissaries to the island to negotiate with the insurgents. These emissaries were Kostis Adosidis Pasha, old governor of the province of Lasithi, and the Cretan Turk Selim Efendi. Ioannis Tsouderos was in charge of responding to these emissaries, a response that had to include two requirements: the declaration of autonomy of Crete which would pay a tribute to the Sultan, and the election of a governor