ABSTRACT
Apart from the family name of Mavrozomis, some more names from Monemvasia also appear in the sources during the twelfth century. George Pachys was appointed governor of the island of Kythira, which was part of the territory of the city. Members of the same family are mentioned until the fourteenth century.1 Also governor of Kythira between 1180 and 1190 was a member of another Monemvasiote family – the Daimonoyannis or Eudaimonoyannis – and the island continued to be governed by the same family until 1238.2 George Daimonoyannis, who was living in Monemvasia during the first decades of the thirteenth century, bore the formidable title of protopansevastohypertatos, which, however, by that time had gone out of use.3 The sophisticated title, which reflected the practices of the Komnenian dynasty, must have been greatly appreciated by Daimonoyannis. However, another aristocratic family of Monemvasia, the Chamaretoi, could boast of a much more prestigious, if not quite so lengthy, title; the archon of the city Ioannis Chamaretos around 1222 bore the title of despot, which seems to indicate a very close connection with the imperial family.4 Prior to Ioannis two other Chamaretoi had been archons of Monemvasia, but did not have the distinguished title.
