When eight named transferred paroikoi from the property of Lavra at Archontochorion, Barlaam, the hegoumenos of Lavra, asked the emperor to have his relative Ioannes Kontostephanos, doux of Thessalonike, investigate the matter. Manuel I issued a decree and signed it in red that Kontostephanos should investigate the periorismoi of Lavra's property and ensure that the rights of the monastery were respected and the paroikoi and the estate itself were returned to Lavra (if. presumably, that was what justice demanded)