The title of protosebastos (Greek: πρωτοσέβαστος, prōtosébastos, "first sebastos") was a high Byzantine court title created by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos...

of prōtosebastos and prōtovestiarios. Like John before him, these titles raised Alexios to the pinnacle of the Byzantine court. As prōtosebastos, he...

subordinate status. Titles like hypatos, spatharios, protospatharios, protosebastos and protoproedros were granted by the emperor to the recipient for life...

and rumors that Maria and Alexios the prōtosebastos were lovers, as well as suspicions that the prōtosebastos planned to seize the throne for himself...

Empire. He had no sons, but left as his successor his nephew Progon as protosebastos of Ndërfandë (Mirdita). The rule of this Progon in the Mirdita area...

imperial regency was then undertaken by the dowager empress and the prōtosebastos Alexios Komnenos (a namesake cousin of Alexios II), who was popularly...

logothetes Megas stratopedarches Megas primmikerios Megas konostaulos Protosebastos Pinkernes Kouropalates Parakoimomenos tes sphendones Parakoimomenos...

the title sebastos and variants derived from it, like sebastokrator, protosebastos, panhypersebastos, and sebastohypertatos. The term appears in the Hellenistic...

sentiment of Constantinopolitans, on the grounds that the empress and the protosebastos had bought the Latin support by promising them the chance of plundering...

Hrelja also known as Protosebastos Hrelija (Serbian: Хреља; Bulgarian: Хрельо, Hrelyo), also known as Stefan Dragovol (Стефан Драговол) or Hrelja Ohmućević...

she had many ambitious suitors, but she chose another Alexios, the prōtosebastos and prōtovestiarios, a nephew of Manuel and uncle of Maria Komnene,...

opposition to the regency of Empress-dowager Maria of Antioch and the protosebastos Alexios Komnenos landed him in prison, but he was released in April...

her allies and adversaries. Maria was the daughter of the Byzantine protosebastos John Doukas Komnenos and Maria Taronitissa, and grandniece of Emperor...

kouropalates Alexios I Byzantine emperor (1081–1118) ∞ Irene Doukaina Adrianos protosebastos domestikos ton scholon of the West ∞ Zoe Doukaina (daughter of Constantine...

and his successor is designated, Progon - son of Gjin Progoni - as protosebastos. After the death of Demetrius in 1215 or 1216, the power was left to...

Byzantine Empire and was at some point granted the Byzantine title of protosebastos. He apparently gave aid to the Norman prince Jordan I of Capua when...

relations. The female version of the title was sebastē. The special title Protosebastos ("First Venerable One") was created for Hadrianos, Alexios' second brother...

Albania, who had been surrendered to the Catholic Church in 1318, the Protosebastos Wilhelm Blevisti, and Theodor I. Muzaka, the Mentulo or Matarango, Count...

recorded. In 1334, the Church of the Holy Archangel in Štip, built by protosebastos Hrelja who held the region under the Serbian crown, was according to...

Palaiologos. By 1326, he held the post of protovestiarios and the rank of protosebastos. In 1327–28, Andronikos was military governor of Velegrada (modern Berat)...

built as the central feature of a monastery in 1332. Its endower was protosebastos Hrelja, a nobleman of Serbian kingdom that ruled Štip since 1282. It...

Norman attacks, and was at some point granted the Byzantine title of protosebastos. He married Eva (or Anna), daughter of Geoffrey Ridell. Through her...

VII in the aftermath of the Church schism of 1054. Constantine Bodin "protosebastos and executor of Dioklea and Serbia" King (titular) 1081–1101 In addition...

future emperor, married Irene Doukaina Adrianos Komnenos (c. 1060–1105), protosebastos, married Zoe Doukaina Nikephoros Komnenos (c. 1062 – after 1136), sebastos...

Andronikos I), illegitimate son of Andronikos I Komnenos Alexios Komnenos (protosebastos), grandson of John II, lover of the Empress Maria Komnene and leader...

consanguinity September 1184 or 1 February 1185 Amalric I Maria Komnene protosébastos John Komnenos (Komnenoi) 1154 29 August 1167 - 11 July 1174 husband's...

Injac Zamputi proposed that Tanushi may have been a descendant of protosebastos Progon, the son of Gjin Progoni, who succeeded his uncle Demetrio Progoni...

logothetes Megas stratopedarches Megas primmikerios Megas konostaulos Protosebastos Pinkernes Kouropalates Parakoimomenos tes sphendones Parakoimomenos...

as megas domestikos and protokouropalates, then sebastos, then even protosebastos. He retained his dukedom until the Turks began to press heavily upon...

(1268–1289) BRANCH OF THESSALY Thomas I despot of Epirus Andronikos protosebastos Constantine ruler of Thessaly (1289–1303) Theodore co-ruler of Thessaly...