Andronikos Kamateros

Who is Andronikos Kamateros?

Andronikos Kamateros, Latinized as Andronicus Camaterus, was Eparch of Constantinople about 1156, and a relative of the Emperor Manuel I Komnenos, who raised him to the rank of sebastos and made him megas droungarios tes viglas, one of the highest judicial offices in the Empire.

Joannes Veccus, who wrote against him somewhat more than a century later, says that Andronikos was an extraordinary man, and a most powerful speaker. He also distinguished himself as an author, and the following works are known to have been written by him:

⁕A work against the Latins, in the form of a dialogue, in which the Emperor Manuel and some Roman cardinals, who were then staying at Constantinople, are the speakers. The subject is the "Processio Spiritus Sancti." The work was subsequently attacked and refuted by Veccus.

⁕A disputation between the Emperor Manuel and Peter, a learned Armenian.

⁕A small work on the two natures in Christ.

⁕There is a dialogue against the Jews, which is usually ascribed to one Andronikos who lived in the fourteenth century, which is in all probability the work of Andronikos Kamateros.