Konstantinos “Konstantinakis” Karabatsos

Married about 1804 to Sophia, sister of Theodoros Kolokotronis. Arkoudorema In small distance from Limpovisi, is found the depopulated village Arkoudorema (Greek: Αρκουδόρεμα). Arkoudorema, existed up to 1930-31 and together with the Limpovisi, administratively belonged to the village of Piana. Deep in the gorge of Arkoudorema, ruins of the old Arkoudorema houses are saved until today. Worthseeing is also the renovated stone tap of Arkoudorema, that is found very near to the church of Virgin Mary of Arkoudorema. The church of Panagia tou Arkoudorematos ( Virgin Mary of Arkoudorema) According to its founding inscription it was decorated with icons in 1715 and renovated in 1719. Arkoudorema is one of the most holy and hidden places in Arcadia. It is situated in the great gorge of Mainalo surrounded by fir trees. It is said that the tomb of Kallisto, mother of Arcada is here. It was the favorite church of Theodoros Kolokotronis who came here like a wounded beast to cry for the death of his first-born son. The icons have folklore details and were painted by the priest George Koulidas and the son of Panayiotis. The decoration was completed in 1751. The waters from the Arkoudorema gorge meet with those of the Elissonas River which crosses the plain of Piana. Arkoudorema is of equal historical importance with that of Limpovisi, because his embossed territory it constituted also this place suitable for reorganization of armed forces before the historical battles of 1821. Wikipedia Children: Petros Karabatsos, born in 1805 Demitrios Karabatsos was born in 1808 in Arkoudorema, Arkadia, Greece. He also was known as “Demitrakis.” Panagiotis Karabatsos, born in 1810, Arkoudorema, Arkadia, Greece Paraskevas Karabatsos, born in 1818 Pantazis Karabatsos, born in 1820 Dionysios Karabatsos, born in 1825 The Old Fountain in the Ruined and Desolate Roupaki". It is here where the family story begins with Triantaphyllos Tserginis (Sergeant), the patriarch in the family tree, who likely commandeered anywhere from a platoon to a half-company size army of local Greeks against the Ottoman Turks in the early 1500s; 300 years before the War for Independence! Roupaki, known before as Kalyvia Kotsika, is a settlement that predates 1200 A.D. Its sister village Tourkoleka is only about one mile southwest of it. In the first Ottoman census of 1462/3, Roupaki is registered as an all-Greek village with 21 houses. Tourkoleka is registered as a hamlet with 5 houses. Roupaki was abandoned in 1532, after the Turks pillaged it. I-M253 haplogroup. The following is the story, as told by the grandson of Theodoros (Falez), of how the family received the name Kolokotronis... "Lambros Botsikas, who was very heavy, had the habit of sitting down on a rock while fighting. He would not lie on the ground nor would he stand up and never retreated. In one of his encounters with the Turks he was wounded in the leg right above the knee. His comrades who were retreating were calling him to follow them, but he was not moving because he was wounded. The Turks, seeing him alone, came to take him prisoner. He then proceeded to shoot and killed two of them. His comrades, seeing him fighting, came back and chased the Turks away. But Lambros, who could not get up and participate in the fight, remained sitting. His comrades came back and saw him sitting still on the rock. Then one of them said, “Would you look at him. His bottom is glued to the rock (kotrona) and he cannot move.” Then he yelled at him “Kolokotroni, get up!” He then responded, “I have been hit and cannot move!” Since then the name Kolokotronis stayed with him and all his descendants as their last name."