Gregorios Kamonas
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Lord of Krujë
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| predecessor = Dhimitër Progoni
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| successor = Golem of Kruja
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| succession = Lord of Krujë
| spouse = Komnena Nemanjić
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| religion = Eastern Orthodoxy
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Gregorios Kamonas{{Cref2|a}} ({{fl.|{{c.|1215}}}}{{snd}}?) was a Greek-Albanian lord who ruled the Principality of Arbanon after {{c.|1215}}.{{Cite book|title=History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500-1492|url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory00shep|first=|last=|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83231-1|year=2008|editor-last=Shepard|editor-first=Jonathan|location=Cambridge|page=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory00shep/page/n797 787]-8|quote=Graeco-Albanian lord Gregory Kamonas}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J7pnAAAAMAAJ&q=gregorios+kamonas|title=The Genealogist|year=1980|page=40}}{{cite book |last1=Günter |first1=Prinzing |title=Die Bedeutung Bulgariens und Serbiens in den Jahren 1204-1219: im Zusammenhang mit der Entstehung und Entwicklung der byzantinischen Teilstaaten nach der Einnahme Konstantinopels infolge des 4. Kreuzzuges |date=1972 |publisher=Institut für Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie |page=136 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1wbAAAAMAAJ |quote=den albanischen Archonten , Pansebastos Sebastos Gregorios Kamonas}} Demetrios Chomatenos (1216–1236) mentioned him as having the title of sebastos, given to him by the emperor Alexios III Angelos after 1205, during his stay in the Despotate of Epirus at the court of his nephew Michael I Komnenos Doukas.{{cite journal | last=Dzelebdzic | first=Dejan | title=Provincial Sebastoi from the end of 12th to mid 13th century | journal=Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta | publisher=National Library of Serbia | issue=50–2 | year=2013 | issn=0584-9888 | doi=10.2298/zrvi1350537d | pages=537–548| doi-access=free }} He first married the daughter of Gjin Progoni, then married Serbian princess Komnena Nemanjić, the daughter of King Stefan Nemanjić and widow of Dimitri Progoni, thus inheriting the rule of Arbanon. He strengthened ties with Serbia and secured Arbanon through an Orthodox alliance.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bclfdU_2lesC&pg=PA786|title=The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 5, C.1198-c.1300|isbn=9780521362894|last1=Abulafia|first1=David|last2=McKitterick|date=1999-10-21|page=786|quote=Greco-Albanian lord Gregorios Kamonas}} He had a daughter together with Komnena, who married Golem of Kruja, the next lord of Kruje.
Notes
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{{Cnote2|a|Name: Gregorios ({{langx|el|Γρηγόριος Καμωνάς|translit=Gri̱górios Kamo̱nás}}), but also Georgius, Georgios, Gregorio, Grigor ({{langx|sq|Grigor Kamona}}), Grgur ({{langx|sr|Гргур Камона}}) and Grigorije (Григорије Камона); his surname is also spelled Kamona.}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Prince of Arbanon
{{small|(Lord of Krujë)}}|years={{circa}} 1216}}
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Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:13th-century monarchs in Europe
Category:13th-century Byzantine people
Category:13th-century Albanian people
Category:13th-century Greek people
Category:Medieval Albanian nobility
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