pronoiar

plural pronoiars

1. One who is granted a pronoia.

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

   1984, Mark C. Bartusis, The Late Byzantine Soldier: A Social and Administrative Study, Rutgers University, page 485

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   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.

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

   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.

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