Panoutsos Notaras Biography

Leading figure of the Greek War of IndependenceNotaras painted by Adam Friedel.

Panoutsos Notaras (Greek: Πανούτσος Νοταράς; 31 March 1740 or 1752 – 18 January 1849) was a Greek revolutionary and politician who was a leading figure of the Greek War of Independence, serving several times as president of the Greek national *emblies and legislative bodies.

Early life

Panoutsos Notaras was born in Trikala, Corinthia on 31 March, either in 1740, or, more probably, in 1752. His family, the Notarades, were among the six most prominent Greek Orthodox families of the Peloponnese during the late Ottoman rule, and occupied high-ranking offices in the provincial administration. Panoutsos' father, Spyridon Notaras, was considered one of the best-educated Greek magnates. Panoutsos himself received a good education by the scholar Grigorios Karvounis, although his feeble health did not allow him to go for university studies to Italy.

Greek War of Independence

Panoutsos Notaras participated in the unsuccessful Orlov Revolt in 1770, and in 1818 became a member of the Filiki Etaireia, a secret society preparing for another Greek uprising against the Ottoman Empire. He considered the start of the Greek War of Independence in March 1821 as too premature, and fell out with the Etaireia's envoy, Papaflessas, over the issue. Nevertheless, after the uprising had progressed, and following the execution of his brother Andrikos by the Ottomans in April and the arrival of Dimitrios Ypsilantis in the Peloponnese in June, he came around to supporting it. He was elected as a representative to the First National *embly at Epidaurus in late 1821, and participated in the 12-member committee that drafted the Greek Cons*ution of 1822. In the first Executive of the Provisional Government, serving from January 1822 to April 1823, he was Minister of Economy. From 11 October 1824 until 6 April 1826, Notaras served as President of the Legislative Corps, although the body was largely sidelined by the Executive at the time. In the Greek civil wars of 1824–1825, he sided with the "government" faction although he initially sympathized with the "military" faction around Theodoros Kolokotronis. Nevertheless, as President of the Legislative he tried unsuccessfully to mediate between the two sides, and urged the government to show leniency and pardon their opponents.

Notaras served briefly (6–16 April 1826) as President of the Third National *embly, but its sessions were suspended at the news of the fall of Missolonghi. He remained head of a provisional committee representing the *embly to the Executive, and on 16 March 1827 issued the order reconvening the *embly at Troezen. Due to his involvement in a scandal in support for his nephew Ioannis Notaras, he was dismissed from his post before the *embly reconvened, and retired from public life for two years. Under the new Governor of Greece, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Notaras became a member of the Panellinion, an advisory body created instead of a parliament, but was not very active there. On 27 November 1829, Kapodistrias appointed Notaras as president of the Court of Appeals in Nafplion.

Notaras took part in the Fifth National *embly at Nafplion, where, following the resignation of Ioannis Kapodistrias' brother and successor, Augustinos, he supported Ioannis Kolettis. He was elected President of the *embly on 11 June 1832, and chaired it until it broke up on 20 August. His brief tenure was dominated by the acceptance of the Bavarian prince Otto, who was selected by the three Great Powers (France, Britain, Russia), as King of Greece.

Later life and death

Notaras remained on the sidelines in the first decade of Otto's rule, but following the 3 September 1843 Revolution he was elected President of the new National *embly, which was tasked with drafting a new cons*ution. He held the post from 8 November until the *embly's dissolution on 18 March 1844, but this was largely an honorary appointment for the "Nestor of Greek politicians", since his advanced age precluded any active participation. The actual work was handled by the *embly's vice-presidents, Andreas Metaxas, Andreas Londos, Alexandros Mavrokordatos and Ioannis Kolettis.

In 1846, Notaras published his autobiography, and retired to his native Trikala, where he died on 18 January 1849. The historic Notarades building is also in the village (at risk of collapse as of 2019).

References

Greek EnlightenmentEuropean intervention and
Greek involvement in
the Napoleonic Wars

• Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
• Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
• Greek Plan of Catherine the Great
• Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)
• French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
  • Fall of the Republic of Venice
  • Republican French rule in the Ionian Islands
  • Septinsular Republic
  • Greek Legion
  • Imperial French rule in the Ionian Islands
  • Albanian Regiment
  • Adriatic campaign of 1807–1814
  • 1st Regiment Greek Light Infantry
• United States of the Ionian Islands

Ideas

• Greek nationalism
• Eastern Orthodox Christianity
• Liberalism
• Cons*utionalism
• Monarchism

EventsSieges

• Patras
• Salona
• Navarino
• Livadeia
• 1st Acropolis
• Tripolitsa
• Arta
• Acrocorinth
• Nauplia
• 1st Messolonghi
• 2nd Messolonghi
• 3rd Messolonghi
• 2nd Acropolis

Battles

• Kalamata
• Wallachian uprising
• Alamana
• Gravia
• Valtetsi
• Doliana
• Lalas
• Vasilika
• Drăgășani
• Sculeni
• Vasilika
• Trench
• Peta
• Dervenakia
• Kar*i
• Greek civil wars
• Sphacteria
• Maniaki
• Morea
• Lerna Mills
• Mani
• Distomo
• Arachova
• Kamatero
• Phaleron
• Chios expedition
• Martino
• Koronisia
• Petra

M*acres

• Constantinople
• Thessaloniki
• Navarino
• Tripolitsa
• Naousa
• Samothrace
• Chios
• Psara
• Kasos
• Cyprus

Naval conflicts

• Eresos
• Chios
• Nauplia
• Samos
• Andros
• Sphacteria
• Gerontas
• Souda
• Alexandria
• Volos
• Itea
• Navarino

Ships

• Agamemnon
• Aris
• Hellas
• Karteria

Greek regional councils and statutes

• Messenian Senate
• Directorate of Achaea
• Peloponnesian Senate
• Senate of Western Continental Greece
• Areopagus of Eastern Continental Greece
• Provisional Regime of Crete
• Military-Political System of Samos

Greek national *emblies

• First (Epidaurus) (Executive of 1822)
• Second (Astros)
• Third (Troezen)
• Fourth (Argos)
• Fifth (Nafplion)

International Conferences,
treaties and protocols

• Congress of Laibach
• Congress of Verona
• Protocol of St. Petersburg (1826)
• Treaty of London
• Conference of Poros
• London Protocol of 1828
• London Protocol of 1829
• Treaty of Adrianople
• London Protocol of 1830
• London Conference
• Treaty of Constantinople
• Proposals for the monarch of Greece

Related

• Greek expedition to Syria (1825)
• Russo-Turkish War (1828–29)

PersonalitiesGreece

• Chian Committee
• Odysseas Androutsos
• Fotos Bomporis
• Kostas Botsaris
• Markos Botsaris
• Notis Botsaris
• Tousias Botsaris
• Laskarina Bouboulina
• Constantin Denis Bourbaki
• Stefanos Chalis
• Sotiris Charalampis
• Giannis Chondrogiannis
• Dimitrios Christidis
• Panagiotis Danglis
• Hatzimichalis Dalianis
• Dimitrios Deligeorgis
• Dimitrakis Deligiannis
• Kanellos Deligiannis
• Athanasios Diakos
• Dionysis Diakos
• Konstantinos Dimidis
• Ioannis Dimoulitsas
• Adam Doukas
• Georgios Drakos
• Yiannis Dyovouniotis
• Georgios Filippopoulos
• Asimakis Fotilas
• Panagiotakis Fotilas
• Angelis Gatsos
• Antonios Georgantas
• Germanos III of Old Patras
• Georgios Gevidis
• Konstantinos Gofas
• Vasileios Goudas
• Ioannis Gouras
• Dimitrios Gouvelis
• Konstantinos Gouvelis
• Angelis Govios
• Dimitrios Indares
• Isaiah of Salona
• Antonios Kalamogdartis
• George Kalaras
• Dimitrios Kallergis
• Athanasios Kampetis
• Athanasios Kanakaris
• Konstantinos Kanaris
• Stefanos Kanellos
• Ioannis Kapodistrias
• Viaros Kapodistrias
• Stamatios Kapsas
• Georgakis Kapsokalyvas
• Anastasios Karatasos
• Panagiotis Karatzas
• Georgios Karaiskakis
• Aristeidis Karnalis
• Nikolaos Kasomoulis
• Ioannis Kolettis
• Apostolis Kolokotronis
• Ioannis Kolokotronis
• Panos Kolokotronis
• Theodoros Kolokotronis
• Michail Komninos Afentoulief
• Alexandros Kontostavlos
• Panos Koronaios
• Georgios Kountouriotis
• Lazaros Kountouriotis
• Michalis Kourmoulis
• Ioannis Krestenitis
• Lykourgos Krestenitis
• Stamatis Krestenitis
• Antonios Kriezis
• Nikolaos Kriezotis
• Kyprianos of Cyprus
• Konstantinos Lagoumitzis
• Georgios L*anis
• Georgios Lechouritis
• Leonardos Leonardopoulos
• Georgios Liologlou
• Lykourgos Logothetis
• Andreas Londos
• Yiannis Makriyiannis
• Ioannis Mamouris
• Anastasios Manakis
• Manto Mavrogenous
• Alexandros Mavrokordatos
• Antonios Mavromichalis
• Demetrios Mavromichalis
• Georgios Mavromichalis
• Konstantinos Mavromichalis
• Kyriakoulis Mavromichalis
• Petrobey Mavromichalis
• Dimitrios Meletopoulos
• Andreas Metaxas
• Konstantinos Metaxas
• Hatzigiannis Mexis
• Andreas Miaoulis
• Antonios Miaoulis
• Panagiotis Michanidis
• Spyros Milios
• Nikolaos Mykonios
• Zachos Milios
• Alexander Negris
• Konstantinos Negris
• Theodoros Negris
• Diamantis Nikolaou
• Konstantinos Nikolopoulos
• Ioannis Notaras
• Antonis Oikonomou
• Ioannis Orlandos
• Andronikos Paikos
• Georgios Panou
• Dimitrios Panourgias
• Nakos Panourgias
• Grigorios Papaflessas
• Anagnostis Papageorgiou
• Dimitrios Papanikolis
• Emmanouel Pappas
• Christoforos Perraivos
• Nikolaos Petimezas
• Vasileios Petimezas
• Dionysios Petrakis
• Andreas Pipinos
• Kyriakos Pittakis
• Anastasios Polyzoidis
• Konstantinos Rados
• Ioannis Rangos
• Panagiotis Rodios
• Dionysios Romas
• Georgios Sachtouris
• Georgios Sekeris
• Theofanis Siatisteus
• Georgios Sisinis
• Ioannis Skandalidis
• Zisis Sotiriou
• Nikitas Stamatelopoulos
• Georgios Stavros
• Joseph Stephanini
• Ioannis Stratos
• Sotirios Theocharopoulos
• Zafeirakis Theodosiou
• Emmanouil Tombazis
• Iakovos Tombazis
• Ioannis Trikoupis
• Anastasios Tsamados
• Melchisedek Tsouderos
• Kitsos Tzavellas
• Theodoros Tzinis
• Loukas Vagias
• Thanasoulas Valtinos
• Dimitrios Varis
• Meletis Vasileiou
• Domna Visvizi
• Alexakis Vlachopoulos
• Konstantinos Vlachopoulos
• Pieros Voidis
• Liolios Xirolivaditis
• Demetrios Ypsilantis
• Christoforos Zachariadis
• Andreas Zaimis
• Germanos Zapheiropoulos
• Evangelos Zappas
• Marigo Zarafopoula
• Nikolaos Zervas

Philhellenes

• António Figueira d'Almeida
• Joseph Balestra
• Samuel Barff
• Paul Marie Bonaparte
• Karl Rudolf Brommy
• Lord Byron
• François-René de Chateaubriand
• Richard Church
• Giuseppe Chiappe
• Lord Cochrane
• Giacinto Collegno
• Charles Fabvier
• Adam Friedel
• Vincenzo Gallina
• Thomas Gordon
• Constantin Guys
• Emmanuel Han
• Frank Abney Hastings
• Carl von Heideck
• Samuel Gridley Howe
• George Jarvis
• Karl Krazeisen
• Henrik Nikolai Krøyer
• Ludwig I of Bavaria
• Ernst Michael Mangel
• Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, *ss of Plaisance
• Vasos Mavrovouniotis
• Johann Jakob Meyer
  • Ellinika Chronika
• Jonathan Miller
• Julius Michael Millingen
• August Myhrberg
• Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels
• Hadži-Prodan
• Maurice Persat
• Theobald Piscatory
• Maxime Raybaud
• Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angély
• Giuseppe Rosaroll
• Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo, Count of Santarosa
• Friedrich Thiersch
• Auguste Hilarion Touret
• Edward John Trelawny
• German Legion:
• Serbs
• David Urquhart
• Olivier Voutier
• James Jakob Williams

Moldavia and Wallachia
(Danubian Principalities)
Sacred Band

• Athanasios Agrafiotis
• Anastasios Christopoulos
• Diamandi Djuvara
• Stefanos Kanellos
• Alexandros Kantakouzinos
• Georgios Kantakouzinos
• Rallou Karatza
• Stamatios Kleanthis
• Georgios L*anis
• Constantine Levidis
• Dimitrie Macedonski
• Anastasios Manakis
• Giorgakis Olympios
• Yiannis Pharmakis
• Michael Soutzos
• Roxani Soutzos
• Athanasios Tsakalov
• Tudor Vladimirescu
• Konstantinos Xenokratis
• Alexander Ypsilantis
• Demetrios Ypsilantis
• Nikolaos Ypsilantis
• Christoforos Zachariadis

Ottoman Empire, Algeria, and Egypt

• Sultan Mahmud II
• Hurshid Pasha
• Nasuhzade Ali Pasha
• Ismael Gibraltar
• Omer Vrioni
• Kara Mehmet
• Mahmud Dramali Pasha
• Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha
• Reşid Mehmed Pasha
• Yussuf Pasha
• Ibrahim Pasha
• Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi

Britain, France and Russia

• George Canning
• Stratford Canning
• Edward Codrington
• Henri de Rigny
• Lodewijk van Heiden
• Alexander I of Russia
• Nicholas I of Russia

Financial aid

• London Philhellenic Committee
• Ludwig I of Bavaria
• Jean-Gabriel Eynard
• Lazaros Kountouriotis
• Ioannis Papafis
• Georgios Stavros
• Ioannis Varvakis
• Rothschild & Co

Morea expeditionHistorians/Memoirists

• Dimitrios Ainian
• Fotis Chrysanthopoulos
• Ioannis Filimon
• George Finlay
• Ambrosios Frantzis
• Lambros Koutsonikas
• Konstantinos Metaxas
• Panoutsos Notaras
• Panagiotis Papatsonis
• Anastasios Polyzoidis
• Georgios Tertsetis
• Spyridon Trikoupis

Art

• Eugène Delacroix
• Louis Dupré
• Peter von Hess
• Victor Hugo
• François Pouqueville
• Alexander Pushkin
• Karl Krazeisen
• Andreas Kalvos
• Dionysios Solomos
• Theodoros Vryzakis
• Hellas
• The Reception of Lord Byron at Missolonghi
• Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi
• Le siège de Corinthe
• The M*acre at Chios
• The Free Besieged
• Hymn to Liberty
• The Archipelago on Fire
• Loukis Laras
• The Apotheosis of Athanasios Diakos

Remembrance

• 25 March (Independence Day)
• Hymn to Liberty
• Eleftheria i thanatos
• Pedion tou Areos
• Propylaea (Munich)
• Garden of Heroes (Missolonghi)
• Royal Phalanx
• Evzones (Presidential Guard)