Prokathemenos

[1] In the central administration, the prokathemenos of the demosiaka dikasteria (state courts) is attested since 1166.

This was one of the four highest tribunals of the Komnenian period, along with those headed by the protasekretis, the dikaiodotes, and the droungarios tes vigles.

[1] In 1186, a prokathemenos of the sekreta (the financial bureaux) is recorded as being charged by Emperor Isaac II Angelos with collecting fines from those who disobeyed one of his chrysobulls.

The modern historian Ernst Stein proposed to identify this office with the prokathemenos of the demosiaka dikasteria, but this is conjectural.

Stein again suggested that these were civilian governors, while the garrison was commanded by a kastrophylax.