Makrembolites

Makrembolites (Μακρεμβολίτης) is the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family dedicated to the civil service at Constantinople. The family produced one empress, Eudokia Makrembolitissa, who reigned in the second half of the 11th century.
The feminine form of the name is Makrembolitissa.
==History==
The family originated from Constantinople in the tenth century, more specifically from the city's Makros Embolos district. They first rose through prominence a hundred years later, when the then family patriarch John Makrembolites was brother-in-law to the Ecumenical Patriarch, Michael I Keroularios. Their most famous member was the Empress Eudokia Makrembolitissa, wife to both Constantine X Doukas and Romanos IV Diogenes, and sometime regent for the former's children.
Throughout the next centuries, they remained high ranking civilian bureaucrats and functionaries, unaffected by the rise of the Komnenids. In the recent past, the family has produced many a writer.
Category:Byzantine families