1) Byzantine court title 
Kouropalatēs, Latinized as curopalates or curopalata (κουροπαλάτης, from cura palatii `[the one in] charge of the palace`) and Anglicized as curopalate, was a Byzantine court title, one of the highest from the time of Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565) to that of the Komnenoi in the 12th century. The female variant, held by the spou.....