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{{short description|Greek military officer (1863–1938)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Perikis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis
| image               = Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis.png
| caption             = Pierrakos-Mavromichalis {{circa|1922}}
| native_name         = Περικλής Πιερράκος Μαυρομιχάλης
| birth_date          = 1863
| death_date          = 1938
| death_place         = [[Athens]], [[Kingdom of Greece]]
| birth_place         = [[Mani Peninsula|Mani]], Kingdom of Greece
| rank                = [[File:GR-Army-OF8-1912.svg|15px]] [[Lieutenant General]]
| branch              = {{army|Greece}}
| serviceyears        = ''?''-1922
| allegiance          = {{flagicon|Greece|royal}} [[Kingdom of Greece]]
| relations           = [[Antonios Mavromichalis]] (father)<br>[[Petrobey Mavromichalis]] (uncle)<br>[[Konstantinos Mavromichalis]] (uncle)<br>[[Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis (military commander)|Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis]] (uncle)<br>[[Georgios Mavromichalis]] (cousin)<br>[[Demetrios Mavromichalis]] (cousin)<br>[[Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis]] (nephew)
| alma_mater          = [[Hellenic Army Academy]]
| battles             = {{tree list}}
*[[Greco-Turkish War (1897)]]<br>[[Balkan Wars]]
**[[First Balkan War]]
**[[Second Balkan War]]
*[[World War I]]
**[[Macedonian front]]
*[[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)]]
{{tree list/end}}
| office              = [[Greek Senate|Member of the Greek Senate]]
| office1             = [[Minister for National Defence (Greece)|Minister of Military Affairs]]
| office2             = [[Ministry of the Interior (Greece)|Minister of the Interior]]
| termstart2          = 1922
| termend2            = 1923
| term                = 1929
| term1               = 1924
| monarch2            = [[George II of Greece|George II]]
| president1          = [[Pavlos Kountouriotis]]
| president           = [[Pavlos Kountouriotis]]
| primeminister       = [[Eleftherios Venizelos]]
| primeminister1      = [[Eleftherios Venizelos]]<br>[[Georgios Kafantaris]]<br>[[Alexandros Papanastasiou]]<br>[[Themistoklis Sofoulis]]<br>[[Andreas Michalakopoulos]]
| primeminister2      = [[Nikolaos Triantafyllakos]]<br>[[Anastasios Charalambis]]<br>[[Sotirios Krokidas]]<br>[[Stylianos Gonatas]]
}}

'''Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis''' ({{langx|el|Περικλής Πιερράκος Μαυρομιχάλης}}; 1863 – 1938), also known as '''Mavromichalis-Pierrakos''', was a [[Greece|Greek]] military officer and politician.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/22379 |title=Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis |work=Olympedia |access-date=21 December 2020}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was the son of general [[Antonios Mavromichalis (died 1873)|Antonios Mavromichalis]], of the famed [[Maniot]] Pierrakos ([[Mavromichalis]]) clan. He became an officer in the [[Hellenic Army]], fighting in the [[Greco-Turkish War of 1897]], the [[Balkan Wars]], [[World War I]] (as Lt Colonel) and later in the [[Asia Minor Campaign]], reaching the rank of Lt General. After retirement, he entered politics, serving as [[Minister for the Interior (Greece)|Interior Minister]] in 1922–1923 and [[Minister for Military Affairs (Greece)|Minister for Military Affairs]] in 1924. He was subsequently elected into the [[Greek Senate]] in 1929. When asked why he had the surname Pierrakos and used Mavromichalis as a nickname, he replied; because he wanted to keep the heritage of his forefathers who fought and die in order for him to live, and the most famous of his forefathers was [[Petros Mavromichalis|Petrobey Mavromichalis]] (whose real name was Petros Pierrakos){{Citation needed|date=September 2010}}.

Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis also competed at the [[1896 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]].<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/periklis-pierrakos-mavromikhalis-1.html |title=Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromikhalis |access-date=31 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026000813/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pi/periklis-pierrakos-mavromikhalis-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2012}}</ref>
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[Fencing]] }}
{{MedalCountry | {{GRE}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Fencing at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalBronze | [[Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics|1896 Athens]] | [[Fencing at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's foil|Foil]] }}
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Pierrakos-Mavromichalis won the [[bronze medal]] in the amateur [[foil (sword)|foil]] event. In the preliminary round, he went 2-1 in his group. He lost to [[Henri Callot]], the eventual [[silver medal]]list, but defeated [[Henri Delaborde (fencer)|Henri Delaborde]] and [[Ioannis Poulos]] to finish second in the group. There was no match between him and [[Athanasios Vouros]], who had placed second in the other group; Pierrakos-Mavromichalis was awarded third place because his record of 2-1 in matches was better than Vouros's 1-1.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Olympics.com|perikles-pierrakos-mavromichalis|Perikles Pierrakos-Mavromichalis}}
* {{HOC profile|pierrakos-mavromichalis-periklis|Periklis Pierrakos Mavromichalis}}

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[[Category:1863 births]]
[[Category:1938 deaths]]
[[Category:Fencers at the 1896 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:19th-century Greek sportsmen]]
[[Category:Greek male fencers]]
[[Category:Mavromichalis family|Periklis]]
[[Category:Olympic fencers for Greece]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Greece]]
[[Category:People from Laconia]]
[[Category:Hellenic Army lieutenant generals]]
[[Category:Greek people of the Balkan Wars]]
[[Category:Ministers of military affairs of Greece]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in fencing]]
[[Category:Ministers of the interior of Greece]]
[[Category:Members of the Greek Senate 1929–1932]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1896 Summer Olympics]]


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