Emperor Nikephoros III flanked by his senior court dignitaries, all of them proedroi, in a manuscript from the 1070s. From left: the proedros and epi tou kanikleiou, the prōtoproedros and prōtovestiarios (a eunuch, since he is beardless), the emperor, the proedros and dekanos, and the proedros and megas primikērios.[1]
Proedros (Greek: πρόεδρος, "president") was a senior Byzantinecourt and ecclesiastic title in the 10th to mid-12th centuries. The female form of the title is proedrissa (προέδρισσα).