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TheParamonai (Greek:Παραμοναί) were an obscureByzantine guard regiment of thePalaiologan period.

The name derives from the Greek verb παραμένω, meaning "to stand near something". Unlike other major guard units in thePalaiologan army like theVarangian Guard, the regiment of theParamonai was anative Byzantine formation, although little else is known about it. Its existence is safely attested in the literary sources only for the period from 1272 until 1315.^[1]

They are still mentioned by the mid-14th century writerPseudo-Kodinos, however, who records that the regiment had two divisions, one on foot and the other on horse, each commanded by anallagator, and that all the soldiers were armed withswords. The veracity of Kodinos's account is impossible to ascertain.^[1]

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