Gabalas

Gabalas (Γαβαλάς) or Gavalas is the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family dedicated to the civil service at Constantinople. The feminine form of the name is Gabalaina.
==History==
An old family, the Gabalades firstly rose to prominence when Anna Gabalaina married Emperor Romanos I's son and co-ruler Stephen Lekapenos. Although they diminished in importance thereafter (as Romanos I failed to consolidate his lineage and the Macedonians returned to the purple), they remained an important Byzantine family nevertheless, both in the imperial and the ecclesiastical bureaucracies.
Category:Byzantine families