Sebastohypertatos

These titles were part of the reordering of the Byzantine titulature under the Komnenian emperors, where titles formed around the formerly imperial epithet sebastos (the Greek translation of Augustus) were created to denote kinship with the emperor.

[1] As such, sebastohypertatos and protosebastohypertatos were among the titles accorded to the emperor's sons-in-law (gambroi).

[2] Sebastohypertatos and protosebastohypertatos both appear for the first time in the reign of John II Komnenos (r. 1118–1143): Manuel Anemas, who married John's third daughter Theodora, assumed the latter, while Theodore Vatatzes who married John's fourth daughter Eudokia, and Constantine Angelos, who married Alexios' fourth daughter Theodora, assumed the former.

[3][4] In letters addressed to the bearers of these titles, forms such as panhyperprotosebastohypertatos (Greek: πανυπερπρωτοσεβαστοϋπέρτατος, lit.

'the first supreme venerable one, above all') and panhyperprotopansebastohypertatos (Greek: πανυπερπρωτοπανσεβαστοϋπέρτατος, lit.