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vestiaritai wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history and functions 2 references 3 sources toggle the table of contents vestiaritai 6 languages ελληνικά español français português српски srpski türkçe edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia byzantine guards and officials part of a series on the byzantine army structural history eastern roman army classical byzantine army themes tagmata hetaireia komnenian era army pronoia palaiologan era army allagia varangian guard generals magister militum domestic of the schools grand domestic stratopedarches protostrator byzantine navy greek fire dromon admirals droungarios of the fleet megas doux campaign history lists of wars revolts and civil wars and battles constantinople strategy and tactics tactics siege warfare military manuals fortifications walls of constantinople v t e the vestiaritai byzantine greek βεστιαρῖται romanized bestiarîtai pronounced ve sti aˈri te sing βεστιαρίτης bestiarítēs ve sti aˈri tis were a corps of imperial bodyguards and fiscal officials in the byzantine empire attested from the 11th to the 15th centuries history and functions edit the vestiaritai appear in the mid 11th century with the first known vestiarites john iberitzes attested in 1049 1 as their name indicates they had a connection to the imperial wardrobe and treasury the vestiarion probably initially raised as a guard detachment for it from circa 1080 on they were formally distinguished into two groups the inner or household vestiaritai eso or oikeioi vestiaritai attached to the emperor s private treasury the eso or oikeiakon vestiarion under a megas primikerios and the outer exo vestiaritai under a primikerios who were probably under the public or state treasury basilikon vestiarion 2 gradually they replaced various other groups of armed guards that the byzantine emperors had employed inside constantinople itself such as the manglabitai or the pantheotai and became the exclusive corps of the emperor s confidential agents 3 as the princess and historian anna komnene writes they were the courtiers closest to the emperor 1 with the military crisis of the 1070s they were also formed into a regular palace guard regiment serving alongside the varangian guard in the komnenian era army 4 5 the vestiaritai are attested as late as 1387 and likely continued to exist after 1 in the 13th and 14th centuries however their role was chiefly fiscal they were responsible for levying soldiers and wagons from the provinces under the control of the domestikos of the themes of the east 1 6 the chief of the vestiaritai was called protovestiarites πρωτοβεστιαρίτης in the 13th and 14th centuries not to be confused with the much older and more important office of protovestiarios the title is attested as late as 1451 when it was held by the historian george sphrantzes 7 8 in the mid 14th century book of offices of pseudo kodinos it ranks nineteenth in the order of precedence following the logothetes tou genikou 9 according to the same work its insignia were a wooden staff dikanikion with gold and red gold knobs a skiadion hat with embroidery of the klapoton type another type of hat called skaranikon of white and gold silk with gold wire embroidery and images of the emperor in the front and back and a silk robe of office or kabbadion 10 references edit 1 2 3 4 odb p 2163 oikonomides 1976 p 130 oikonomides 1976 p 129 bartusis 1997 p 271 oikonomides 1976 pp 129 130 guilland 1967 tome i p 589 odb pp 1750 2163 guilland 1967 tome ii pp 203 209 verpeaux 1966 p 137 verpeaux 1966 p 157 sources edit bartusis mark c 1997 the late byzantine army arms and society 1204 1453 philadelphia pennsylvania university of pennsylvania press isbn 0 8122 1620 2 guilland rodolphe 1967 recherches sur les institutions byzantines 2 vols studies on the byzantine institutions berliner byzantinische arbeiten 35 in french berlin and amsterdam akademie verlag adolf m hakkert oclc 878894516 kazhdan alexander ed 1991 the oxford dictionary of byzantium oxford and new york oxford university press isbn 0 19 504652 8 oikonomides nicolas 1976 travaux et mémoires 6 in french paris e de boccard verpeaux jean ed 1966 pseudo kodinos traité des offices in french paris éditions du centre national de la recherche scientifique v t e order of byzantine palace offices after pseudo kodinos despotes sebastokrator caesar megas domestikos panhypersebastos protovestiarios megas doux protostrator megas logothetes megas stratopedarches megas primmikerios megas konostaulos protosebastos pinkernes kouropalates parakoimomenos tes sphendones parakoimomenos tou koitonos logothetes tou genikou protovestiarites domestikos tes trapezes epi tes trapezes megas papias eparchos megas droungarios tes vigles megas hetaireiarches megas chartoullarios logothetes tou dromou protasekretis epi tou stratou mystikos domestikos ton scholon megas droungarios tou stolou primmikerios tes aules protospatharios megas archon tatas tes aules megas tzaousios praitor tou demou logothetes ton oikeiakon megas logariastes protokynegos skouterios ameralios epi ton deeseon koiaistor megas adnoumiastes logothetes tou stratiotikou protoierakarios logothetes ton agelon megas diermeneutes akolouthos krites tou phossatou archon tou allagiou protallagator megas dioiketes orphanotrophos protonotarios epi ton anamneseon domestikos ton teicheon prokathemenos of the koiton prokathemenos of the vestiarion vestiariou hetaireiarches logariastes tes aules stratopedarches of the monokaballoi stratopedarches of the tzangratores stratopedarches of the mourtatoi stratopedarches of the tzakones prokathemenos of the great palace prokathemenos of the palace of blachernae domestikos of the themata domestikos of the eastern themata domestikos of the western themata megas myrtaïtes protokomes papias droungarios sebastos myrtaïtes prokathemenoi of the cities according to their importance unknown rank epi tou kanikleiou megas baïoulos retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title vestiaritai oldid 1315307386 categories guards units of the byzantine empire byzantine fiscal offices hidden categories articles with short description short description is different from wikidata articles containing byzantine greek language text pages with byzantine greek ipa cs1 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