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Vestarches (Gr****: βεστάρχης) was a
senior Byzantine honorific dignity in use from the late 10th to
early 12th centuries. The term
vestarches means 'master...
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becoming a proedros,
Kedrenos may have held the
somewhat lower rank of
vestarches.
Vestarches Georgios Kedrenos is in fact
known from a
number of 11th–12th-century...
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holders was inflated, and the
office vanished sometime in the 12th century.
Vestarches (βεστάρχης), "head of the vestai" —
Adopted in the
latter half of the...
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Katakalon Kekaumenos, who had just been
dismissed as doux of Antioch; the
vestarches Michael Bourtzes,
whose namesake grandfather had
captured Antioch for...
- advancement, to
hypatos and patrikios,
vestes and
strategos of Chios,
vestarches and
katepano of Dyrrhachium, magistros,
proedros and doux of the Bucellarian...
- seal
which may be
attributable to him
further records the
titles of "
vestarches,
judge of the Velum, and
grand curator of the Mangana".
Constantine was...
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despite earlier attempts to
connect the
vestai and the
related title of
vestarches, the head of the
class of the vestai, with the
officials of the vestiarion...
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Dyrrhachium c. 1043 Perenos, doux of
Dyrrhachium c. 1064
Michael Maurex,
vestarches and
katepano of
Dyrrhachium (seal
dated to the 1060s/early 1070s) Nikephoros...
- Vatatzes;
another seal
mentions Nikephoros Vatatzes, "protoproedros,
vestarches,
megas doux, and
praetor of the
Aegean Sea"; a
Joseph Vatatzes, possibly...
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Constantine IX
Monomachos A seal
mentioning his
titles as magistros,
vestarchēs and stratopedarchēs of the East survives, and he was "relieved of the...
