Vojsava Tripalda was a 15th century Balkanian princess, according to some authors from a family of Polog

Polog

Polog also known as the Polog Valley , is located in the north-western part of the Republic of Macedonia near the border with Serbia.It is divided into Upper and Lower Polog...

.
She is best known as the wife of Gjon Kastrioti

Gjon Kastrioti

Gjon Kastrioti , member of Kastrioti family, son of Pal Kastrioti, was an Albanian lord and the father of Scanderbeg. He was called also Hamza Kastrioti.- Name :...

 and mother of the 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...

 national hero George Kastrioti Skanderbeg

Skanderbeg

George Kastrioti Skanderbeg or Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu , widely known as Skanderbeg , was a 15th-century Albanian lord. He was appointed as the governor of the Sanjak of Dibra by the Ottomans in 1440...

. She also had three other sons– Stanisha Kastrioti, Reposh, and Konstantin – and five daughters – Mara (married to Stefan I Crnojević

Stefan I Crnojevic

Stefan a.k.a. Stefanica Crnojević was a medieval lord of the Principality of Zeta , from the House of Crnojević that ruled it from 1451 to 1465.-Reign:...

), Angelina (married to Vladan Araniti, brother of Gjergj Arianiti), Jella (married to Gjin Muzaka), Vlaika (married to Stefan Stres Balsha), and Mamica (married to Muzakë Thopia in 1445).

Ethnicity and genealogy

The first medieval works providing some information on Vojsava's origins are:

• Marin Barleti
  Marin Barleti
  Marin Barleti . was an Albanian historian and Catholic priest. He is considered the first Albanian historian, especially because of his biography on Skanderbeg, translated in many languages in the 16th to the 18th centuries.-Life:Barleti lived in Shkodër and was a scholar and a clergyman...
  
  's biography of Skanderbeg (c. 1510), which describes her as the "daughter of a lord of the Triballi
  Triballi
  The Triballi were an ancient tribe whose dominion was around the plains of southern modern Serbia and west Bulgaria, at the Angrus and Brongus and the Iskur River, roughly centered where Serbia and Bulgaria are joined....
  
  ans," that is, of the Bulgarians.
• The Muzaka Chronicle, which was written by 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,...
  
   and was published in 1510. According to this work, she was related to 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:...
  
  .

In his biography of Skanderbeg, Fan Noli adopted the view that Vojsava came from the Muzaka family. Harry Hodgkinson

Harry Hodgkinson (writer)

Harry Hodgkinson was a British writer, journalist, naval intelligence officer and expert on the Balkans.He was appointed from 1985 to be a Chairman of the Anglo-Albanian Association.During his career he supported the Albanian cause and took up strong anti-Serb and anti-Bulgarian positions.-...

, too, considers her a member of the Muzaka family.

Boban Petrovski, an associate professor of history in the University of Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia, has suggested that Vojsava was ethnically Serbian

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

, coming from the House of Brankovic

House of Brankovic

House of Branković or Brankovići was a noble Serbian medieval dynasty. The family descent via female line through marriage from the Royal House of Nemanjić. The families rise to prominence during the time of disintegration of Serbian Empire under the last ruler of House of Nemanjić...

, although he considers it doubtful because there are no medieval sources connecting the Kastrioti and the Brankovic families. This view was also supported by Prof. Oliver Schmitt

Oliver Schmitt

Oliver Jens Schmitt is professor of South-East European history on Vienna University since 2005. and member of Junge Kurie of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and member of its Direktorium....

 of the University of Vienna. According to the Academician

Academician

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 from BAS

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy is autonomous and has a Society of Academicians, Correspondent Members and Foreign Members...

 Strashimir Dimitrov, Vojsava was a daughter of a local Bulgarian boyar

Boyar

A boyar, or bolyar , was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Moscovian, Kievan Rus'ian, Bulgarian, Wallachian, and Moldavian aristocracies, second only to the ruling princes , from the 10th century through the 17th century....

from Macedonia.