Donika Kastrioti Arianiti Muzaka, Princess of the League of Lezhë

League of Lezhë

The League of Lezhë was an alliance of Albanian Principalities forged in Lezhë on the 2nd of March 1444. It was initiated and organised by Skanderbeg with the aim of uniting the Albanian principalities that had been founded in the 12th - 14th centuries, to fight the Ottoman Armies...

was an Albanian

Albanians

Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 noblewoman. A member of the Houses of Arianiti, Muzaka and Kastrioti

Kastrioti

The Kastrioti family were a noble Albanian family in the middle Ages. The Kastrioti dynasty originally hailed from the Dibër region in Albania...

 she was the wife of George Kastrioti Skanderbeg. She was the daughter of Gjergj Arianiti who stood as one of the greatest leaders' war against the Ottoman occupation. She is also mentioned as Andronica Comneniates in Gjon Muzaka

Gjon Muzaka

Gjon Muzaka wan an Albanian nobleman from the Muzaka family, that has historically ruled in the Myzeqe region, Albania. In 1510 he wrote a Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi . The work was published in Karl Hopf's Chroniques gréco-romaines, Paris 1873,...

's work about the Muzaka family

Muzaka family

The Muzaka were an Albanian noble family, first mentioned in 1190 by the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena. The family created the Muzaka Principality.-History of the Muzaka:...

 or Andronika Arianiti in O.Schmitt's book on Skanderbeg.

Her sister, Angelina of Serbia , was married to Serbian ruler Stefan Branković and is venerated as a saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church

Serbian Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Orthodox Christian churches, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Russia...

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