Gregory Pakourianos ( el, Γρηγόριος Πακουριανός, Grēgorios Pakourianos; – before April 1105) was a

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aristocrat and provincial governor. He was born in , and was the grandson of the distinguished military commander, the Iberian ''

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'' Gregory Pakourianos, who was killed fighting against the

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in 1086. In he married a daughter (possibly named Anna) of

Nikephoros Komnenos Nikephoros Komnenos ( el, Νικηφόρος Κομνηνός, ''Nikēphoros Komnēnos''; – after 1026/7) was a Byzantine military leader under the emperors Basil II () and Constantine VIII (). He served as governor of the Armenian region o ...

, the youngest brother of

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Alexios I Komnenos Alexios I Komnenos ( grc-gre, Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός, 1057 – 15 August 1118; Latinized Alexius I Comnenus) was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. Although he was not the first emperor of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during ...

(). On that occasion Gregory was raised to the rank of ''

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'', and appointed to the governance of a province near

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—either Dyrrhachium or

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—but he died soon after, sometime before April 1105. Gregory is known chiefly through the letters addressed to him by the archbishop

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. Furthermore, in a letter by Theophylact's letter to

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, Gregory is praised as a capable and benevolent governor, who showed particular care and attention to the weak and destitute. By his wife, he had one known son, Nikephoros Pakourianos.

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