Constantine Doukas Nestongos ( el, Κωνσταντῖνος ∆ούκας Νεστόγγος, ) was a

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aristocrat and courtier. Nestongos first appears in 1280, when he accompanied the co-emperor (and future sole emperor) Andronikos II Palaiologos in his campaign against the

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in the Maeander River valley. Nestongos at the time held the position of ''

parakoimomenos The ''parakoimōmenos'' ( el, παρακοιμώμενος, literally "the one who sleeps beside he emperor's chamber) was a Byzantine court position, usually reserved for eunuchs. The position's proximity to the emperors guaranteed its holders ...

'' of the imperial seal. Appointed governor of Nyssa, he held the post until the city fell to the Turks in ca. 1284. Nestongos himself was captured, but had been released by June 1285, when he witnessed a treaty with the

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. He is last mentioned in ca. 1307, in a legal dispute between some of his tenants (''

paroikoi ''Paroikoi'' (plural of Greek πάροικος, ''paroikos'', the etymological origin of parish and parochial) is the term that replaced "metic" in the Hellenistic and Roman period to designate foreign residents. In the Byzantine Empire, ''paroikoi ...

'') near

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with a local monastery. Some authors identify him with a "Doukas Nestongos" who was ''

megas hetaireiarches The ( grc-gre, ἑταιρειάρχης), sometimes anglicized as Hetaeriarch, was a high-ranking Byzantine officer, in command of the imperial bodyguard, the . In the 9th–10th centuries there appear to have been several , each for one of the su ...

'' in 1304, but this is unlikely since the latter post was much junior in rank to the ''parakoimomenos''.

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