Basil Doukas Kamateros (Greek: Βασίλειος Δούκας Καματηρός)[1] was a Byzantine aristocrat and senior official.
Basil was the son of the official and theologian Andronikos Doukas Kamateros, and brother of Empress Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera, wife of Alexios III Angelos (r.
[2] By 1182 he had advanced to the post of logothetes tou dromou, but was dismissed, blinded (apparently only in one eye), and banished to Russia when Andronikos I Komnenos (r. 1182–1185) took power.
[2] He returned to Constantinople and was again logothetes tou dromou under Isaac II Angelos (r. 1185–1195),[3] and remained active at court under his brother-in-law Alexios III.
[2] After the Fourth Crusade he fled to the Empire of Nicaea, established by his nephew Theodore I Laskaris, who in 1209/10 sent him on an embassy to the King of Armenian Cilicia, Leo I.