the kladas family is known in records from the morea since 1296 when a "corcondille" captured a castle controlled by the franks for the byzantine greeks. members of the family donated to a monastery at mystra in 1366 and 1375. a "krokodeilos" appears in the satire of mazaris as one of the rebels against the byzantine emperor manuel ii in 1415. the name "krokontēlos" also appears on an inscribed donation to a church in karytaina dated to the mid-1300s. krokodeilos kladas and his brothers are respected in venetian sources. also, kladas was awarded venetian knighthood and a gold robe just before the 1480 revolt.