pronoiar

English

Noun

pronoiar (plural pronoiars)

1. One who is granted a pronoia.
   • 1984, Mark C. Bartusis, The Late Byzantine Soldier: A Social and Administrative Study‎^[1], Rutgers University, page 485:

     We can say, without any doubt, that Saravares was a pronoiar. But was he a soldier?

   • 1990, Donald W. Treadgold, quoting George Ostrogorsky, History of the Byzantine State‎^[2], quoted in Freedom: A History, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 113:

     The pronoiar now had the obligation of military service . . . [his] estate was not the private property of the pronoiar, but was unalienable, and to begin with it was also not heritable.

   • 2009, Madeleine Pelner Cosman, Linda Gale Jones, chapter 1, in Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set, Volumes 1-3‎^[3], Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 53:

     the pronoiar (land grantee) did not swear an oath of personal loyalty to the strategos, since the emperor remained the legal owner of the land.