Gregorios Kamonas

Gregorios Kamonas^[a] (fl. c. 1215) was the Greek-Albanian Lord or Prince of Krujë (Arbanon) in ca. 1215.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Demetrios Chomatenos (1216–1236) mentioned him as having the title of sebastos, given to him by the emperor Alexios III Angelos after 1205, during his stay in the Despotate of Epirus at the court of his nephew Michael I Komnenos Doukas.^[5] He first married the daughter of Gjin Progoni, then married Serbian princess Komnena Nemanjić, the daughter of King Stefan Nemanjić and widow of Dimitri Progoni, thus inheriting the rule of Arbanon. He strengthened ties with Serbia and secured Arbanon through an Orthodox alliance.^[3] He had a daughter together with Komnena, who married Golem of Kruja the later lord of Kruje.^[2]

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Name: Gregorios (Greek: Γρηγόριος Καμωνάς, romanized: Gri̱górios Kamo̱nás), but also Georgius, Georgios, Gregorio, Grigor (Albanian: Grigor Kamona), Grgur (Serbian: Гргур Камона) and Grigorije (Григорије Камона); his surname is also spelled Kamona.)

^ Shepard, Jonathan, ed. (2008). History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500-1492. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 787-8. ISBN 978-0-521-83231-1. Graeco-Albanian lord Gregory Kamonas
^ ^a ^b The Genealogist. 1980. p. 40.
^ ^a ^b Abulafia, David; McKitterick (1999-10-21). The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 5, C.1198-c.1300. p. 786. ISBN 9780521362894. Greco-Albanian lord Gregorios Kamonas
^ Günter, Prinzing (1972). Die Bedeutung Bulgariens und Serbiens in den Jahren 1204-1219: im Zusammenhang mit der Entstehung und Entwicklung der byzantinischen Teilstaaten nach der Einnahme Konstantinopels infolge des 4. Kreuzzuges. Institut für Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie. p. 136. den albanischen Archonten , Pansebastos Sebastos Gregorios Kamonas
^ Dzelebdzic, Dejan (2013). "Provincial Sebastoi from the end of 12th to mid 13th century". Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta (50–2). National Library of Serbia: 537–548. doi:10.2298/zrvi1350537d. ISSN 0584-9888.