Career
The pair did not have any children. From 1304, he served as governor of Thessalonica, where he made donations of property to the Hodegetria Monastery. In 1305, the throne of the March of Montferrat became vacant and his mother wanted to send John to take it up, but was successfully opposed by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Athanasius I, so that John"s younger brother Theodore was sent instead.
John Palaiologos died in 1307 in Thessalonica.
In 1321, his body was transferred to Constantinople and buried in the Pantokrator Monastery.