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	Andronika Arianiti-Comneniates Muzaka

Donika Arianiti
Donika Arianiti
Lady of Albania
	Posthumous engraving by Johann Theodor de Bry
Consort of Albania
Tenure	1451-1468
Predecessor	-
Successor	Theodora Muzaka (1468-1479)
Born	1428; Kaninë, Ottoman Empire (modern day Albania)
Died	1506 (Aged 78); Valencia, Kingdom of Valencia (modern day Spain)
Burial	Royal Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Valencia
Spouse	Skanderbeg
Issue	John Kastrioti II
Names
Names
	Andronika Arianiti-Comneniates Muzaka
House	Arianiti (paternally); Muzaka (maternally); Kastrioti (by marriage)
Father	Gjergj Arianiti
Mother	Maria Muzaka
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy

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Donika Arianiti (also known as Donika Kastrioti and Andronika Arianiti)^[a], (born 1428 – died 1506) was an Albanian noblewoman and the spouse of Albanian leader and national hero Skanderbeg. She was the daughter of Gjergj Arianiti, an earlier leader in the ongoing revolt against the Ottomans.

Life

Donika was born in Kaninë, in 1428. Her father, Gjergj Arianiti was a member of the Arianiti family whose domain stretched across the Shkumbin valley and the old Via Egnatia road and reached to the east today's Bitola. Her mother, Maria Muzaka was a member of the Muzaka family whose domain was the Myzeqe region.^[1]

A month after the Treaty of Gaeta, on 21 April 1451, Skanderbeg married Donika, and thus strengthened the ties with the Arianiti family,^[2] in the Eastern Orthodox Ardenica Monastery,^[3]^[4] in Lushnje, present-day southwestern Albania. Later her sister Angelina married Serbian ruler Stefan Branković. She is venerated as a saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church.^[5]

After the Ottoman conquest of Albania, the Kastriotis were given peerage in the Kingdom of Naples.^[6] They obtained a feudal domain, the Duchy of San Pietro in Galatina and the County of Soleto (Province of Lecce, Italy).^[7] Gjon Kastrioti II, Donika's and Skanderbeg's only child, married Jerina Branković, the daughter of Lazar Branković, Despot of Serbia.^[7]

Notes

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Her name is mentioned as Andronica Comneniates in Gjon Muzaka's work about the Muzaka family.^[8] Oliver Jens Schmitt names her Andronika Arianiti in his biographical work on Skanderbeg.^[9]

References

^ Anamali, Skënder (2002), Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime (in Albanian), vol. I, Botimet Toena, pp. 255–257, OCLC 52411919
^ Frashëri, Kristo (2002), Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu: jeta dhe vepra, 1405–1468 (in Albanian), Botimet Toena, p. 181, ISBN 99927-1-627-4
^ Elsie, Robert (2000). A dictionary of Albanian religion, mythology, and folk culture. New York University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-8147-2214-8.
^ Gjika, Ilirjan. "Manastiri i Ardenices" (in Albanian). Retrieved 28 July 2010.
^ Elsie, Robert (2001). A dictionary of Albanian religion, mythology and folk culture. C. Hurst. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-85065-570-1. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
^ Gibbon, Edward (1901) [1802], The decline and fall of the Roman empire, P. F. Collier & Son, p. 467, OCLC 317326240
^ ^a ^b Runciman, Steven (1990), The fall of Constantinople, 1453, Cambridge University Press, pp. 183–185, ISBN 978-0-521-39832-9
^ John Musachi: Brief Chronicle on the Descendants of our Musachi Dynasty Archived September 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ Schmitt Oliver, Skanderbeg, Der neue Alexander auf dem Balkan, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2009, p. 45

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Her name is mentioned as Andronica Comneniates in Gjon Muzaka's work about the Muzaka family.^[8] Oliver Jens Schmitt names her Andronika Arianiti in his biographical work on Skanderbeg.^[9]

[Anamali-1] Anamali, Skënder (2002), Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime (in Albanian), vol. I, Botimet Toena, pp. 255–257, OCLC 52411919

[Frashëri2002p181-2] Frashëri, Kristo (2002), Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu: jeta dhe vepra, 1405–1468 (in Albanian), Botimet Toena, p. 181, ISBN 99927-1-627-4

[3] Elsie, Robert (2000). A dictionary of Albanian religion, mythology, and folk culture. New York University Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-8147-2214-8.

[4] Gjika, Ilirjan. "Manastiri i Ardenices" (in Albanian). Retrieved 28 July 2010.

[Elsie2001-5] Elsie, Robert (2001). A dictionary of Albanian religion, mythology and folk culture. C. Hurst. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-85065-570-1. Retrieved 26 November 2010.

[Gibbon1901p467-6] Gibbon, Edward (1901) [1802], The decline and fall of the Roman empire, P. F. Collier & Son, p. 467, OCLC 317326240

[Runciman1990pp183185-7] Runciman, Steven (1990), The fall of Constantinople, 1453, Cambridge University Press, pp. 183–185, ISBN 978-0-521-39832-9

[8] John Musachi: Brief Chronicle on the Descendants of our Musachi Dynasty Archived September 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

[9] Schmitt Oliver, Skanderbeg, Der neue Alexander auf dem Balkan, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2009, p. 45

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-'''Donika Arianiti''', also known as Donika Kastrioti, {{cref2|a}} (born 1428 – died 1506) was an [[Albanians|Albanian]] noblewoman and the spouse of Albanian  leader and national hero [[Skanderbeg]]. She was the daughter of [[Gjergj Arianiti]], an earlier leader in the ongoing revolt against the Ottomans.
+'''Donika Arianiti ('''also known as Donika Kastrioti and Andronika Arianiti){{cref2|a}}, (born 1428 – died 1506) was an [[Albanians|Albanian]] noblewoman and the spouse of Albanian  leader and national hero [[Skanderbeg]]. She was the daughter of [[Gjergj Arianiti]], an earlier leader in the ongoing revolt against the Ottomans.
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