Kamateros

Kamateros (Καματηρός) is the name of a Byzantine aristocratic family dedicated to the civil service at Constantinople which achieved the peak of its power during the Angelos dynasty. Several members of the family were scholars and literary patrons, and others enjoyed successful ecclesiastical careers. The feminine form of the name is Kamatera.
==History==
The Kamateroi have been a family dedicated to the civil service since their inception. The earliest attested member is Petronas Kamateros, who lived in the first half of the ninth century and was the governor of the Crimea. Throughout the next centuries, the family produced several notable civil functionaries and reached their apogee in the late twelfth century. John Kamateros was Manuel Komnenos' Logothete of the Course. Andronikos Kamateros served as Eparch of Constantinople, and his son Basil was Isaac II's Logothete of the Course. Indeed, Andronikos' daughter Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera was married to Emperor Alexios III Angelos, and she is a common ancestress of the Laskarids through her second daughter Anna.
That illustrious recent past, which includes two Ecumenical Patriarchs (Basil II and John X), has made the Kamateroi one of the most influential and powerful of the civilian families of Constantinople. Whereas Theodore II has the Mouzalones and John III had Demetrios Tornikes, Isaac II and Alexios III had placed their faith in the Kamateroi
Category:Byzantine families