Basil Doukas Kamateros

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Basil Doukas Kamateros (

Byzantine
aristocrat and senior official.

Basil was the son of the official and theologian

protonotarios.[2] By 1182 he had advanced to the post of logothetes tou dromou, but was dismissed, blinded (apparently only in one eye), and banished to Russia when Andronikos I Komnenos (r. 1182–1185) took power.[2]

He returned to

References

  1. ^ The surname "Doukas" appears only on his seal of office. Polemis 1968, pp. 130–131
  2. ^ a b c d e Polemis 1968, p. 130.
  3. ^ a b c ODB, "Kamateros" (A. Kazhdan), p. 1198.
  4. ^ Polemis 1968, pp. 78–79.

Sources

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  • Polemis, Demetrios I. (1968). The Doukai: A Contribution to Byzantine Prosopography. London: The Athlone Press.
    OCLC 299868377
    .