Kontostephanos family

Byzantine general and admiral

Byzantine admiral

byzantine aristocrat

thumb | right | Seal of Michael Kontostephanos, duke of Antioch, 1055 Kontostephanos (), feminine form Kontostephanina (Κοντοστεφανίνα), was the name of an aristocratic Byzantine Greek family active in the 10th–15th centuries, which enjoyed great prominence in the 12th century through its intermarriage with the Komnenian dynasty.

Byzantine statesman of the 12th Century