On September 7, 1833, Theodoros Kolokotronis was arrested and imprisoned in Palamidi by the Bavarian Crown, on the charge of high treason.
Theodoros Kolokotronis, although he took the lead in the events for the election of Othon, with the arrival of the latter (1832), Kolokotronis became the target of slander by his political opponents (Kolettis). The Bavarian regency (Othon was a minor) strongly resented his pro-Capodistrian and pro-Russian position.
He was accused of high treason and arrested (07/09/1833) together with Plaputa, Xavela, Nikitaras and other military men on the charge of preparing a conspiracy to overthrow the minor king.
Kolokotronis was imprisoned in Palamidi at the age of 63. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. After Othon came of age, he was pardoned (May 1835) and released from prison. He was named a general and received the office of Councilor of State.
Theodoros Kolokotronis, born in 1770, was the most important Peloponnesian military leader during the Revolution. He was a scion of the great Kolokotronae family of thieves.
He participated (1807) in the defense of Lefkada organized by Ioannis Kapodistrias, a person he later supported as the 1st governor of Greece. He was initiated (1818) into the Friendly Society that had begun to prepare the Revolution in the Peloponnese.
He starred in many military operations of the struggle, while until the end of the Revolution he continued to play an active role in the military and political affairs of the time.
In the last years of his life, Kolokotronis dictated his Memoirs to Georgios Tertsetis – they were published (1851) under the title “Narration of events of the Greek race from 1770 to 1836”.
Theodoros Kolokotronis died one night in 1843 from apoplexy. Here is the fiasco and the irony: the judge of Kolokotronis was… a Scotsman, apparently from “Great” Britain, a “protector” of Greece… The judges who saved him, refusing to accept the punishment of “traitors”, were the Georges Tercetis and Polyzoidis Anastasios.
