Not to be confused with the Palaiologan-era office of Protovestiarites.
Protovestiarios (Greek: πρωτοβεστιάριος, lit.'first vestiarios') was a high Byzantine court position, originally reserved for eunuchs. In the late Byzantine period (12th–15th centuries), it denoted the Empire's senior-most financial official, and was also adopted by the medieval Serbian state as protovestiyar (прото-вестијар).
Protovestiarios (Greek: πρωτοβεστιάριος, lit. 'first vestiarios') was a high Byzantine court position, originally reserved for eunuchs. In the late Byzantine...
aristocrat and general of the Empire of Nicaea. He attained the rank of protovestiarios during the reign of Emperor John III Vatatzes (r. 1221–1254). Alexios...
(Greek: Μαρία Δούκαινα) in the Byzantine sources, was the wife of protovestiarios and domestikos ton scholon Andronikos Doukas and mother of Empress...
"protosebastos and protovestiarios" was normally conferred only to close kinsmen of the emperor, while the offices of protovestiarios and megas domestikos...
that one of them is to be identified with the Postern of Michael the Protovestiarios (παραπυλὶς τοῦ Μιχαὴλ τοῦ πρωτοβεστιαρίου, parapylis tou Michaēl tou...
On release, Mourtzouphlos was invested with the court position of protovestiarios (head of the imperial finances). He had been married twice but was...
heir-apparent Alexios Philanthropenos, Byzantine general Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios), Byzantine general Alexios Strategopoulos, Byzantine general Alexios...
From left: the proedros and epi tou kanikleiou, the prōtoproedros and prōtovestiarios (a eunuch, since he is beardless), the emperor, the proedros and dekanos...
vestiarion) and its officials also became a separate department under the prōtovestiarios. The remainder continued as the "koubikoularioi of the kouboukleion"...
imperial family, and its functions were gradually being supplanted by the protovestiarios, whose original role was limited to the custody of the imperial wardrobe...
the empire, its holder ranking sixth after the emperor, between the protovestiarios and the protostrator. As such, it was also sometimes conferred upon...
Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos. By 1326, he held the post of protovestiarios and the rank of protosebastos. In 1327–28, Andronikos was military...
great logothete, who had the functions of a first minister, and the protovestiarios, who was responsible for the treasury and finance. High court titles...
to rule in her stead as bailli and named Benjamin, who had been the protovestiarios of the Principality—an office equivalent to a Western chamberlain and...
office often functioned as de facto chief ministers of the Empire. Protovestiarios – Usually a minor relative of the emperor who took care of the emperor's...
Protovestiar (Протовестијар/Protovestijar): another Byzantine court title (protovestiarios) adopted by the old Kingdom of Serbia. The Protovestiar was responsible...
negotiations with David even before his master's arrival, and David's protovestiarios, George Amiroutzes, advised the emperor to sue for peace. When Mehmed...
Višegrad, Olovo, and Srebrenica. Customs collection was overseen by protovestiarios, who were often Ragusan citizens. One of the early representations...
sent into exile in a monastery. He is replaced by the chamberlain (protovestiarios) Theophanes, who becomes the closest adviser of Emperor Romanos I....
disrupted the Empire in the 14th century. Theodore was the brother of the protovestiarios Constantine Doranites. In 1349/50, he held the post of megas stratopedarches...
ambitious suitors, but she chose another Alexios, the prōtosebastos and prōtovestiarios, a nephew of Manuel and uncle of Maria Komnene, former queen of Jerusalem...
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