Medieval Albanian pedigree of Leka Zogu

Pedigree of Leka from medieval Albania

According to genealogists, Crown Prince Leka of Albania descends, through his mother, from medieval princes of Southern Albania, particularly the Arianiti family, which provided wife to Skanderbeg - but there is no known descent from Skanderbeg to Leka.

Lineage

• lord Comino Arianiti, married daughter of Nikola Sakati, Lord of Sendir

• prinq Gjergj Comino Arianiti Golem, Lord of Cermenica, Kanina, Elbasan and Shpat, married lady Maria Musaki

• Angeljina Arianiti (see the medieval Albanian family at her ancestry), married Stepan Brankovic (1417-76) his ancestry, son of Djuradj Vukovic Brankovic and Eirene Kantakouzene

• Jovan Brankovic, Prince of Raitzen, married Jelena Jaksic

• Marija Brankovic of Rascia, married Ferdinand Frankopani, Count of Veglia, son of Bernat Frankopani, Count of Modrus and Veglia, and Luisa Marzano d'Aragona

• Catherine Frankopani de Veglia (he ancestry), married Nicholas IV of Zriny, Ban of Croatia-Slavonia, son of Miklos III Zrinyi and countess Ilona Korbavia

• Barbara of Zriny, married Elek II Thurzo, Baron of Bethlenfalva, son of Kristof I Thurzo of Bethlenfalva and Maria Magdalena Rehlinger

• baroness Felizitas Thurzo of Bethlenfalva (her ancestry), married count John James of Rottal, son of baron John von Rottal and Katherine Kauger

• count John Anthony of Rottal, married countess Helena z Wrbna of Freudenthal, daughter of George, Count z Wrbna a Freudenthal and baroness Helena z Wrbna a Freudenthal

• countess Eleanor of Rottal (her ancestry), married count Ferdinand Ernest of Valdstejna z Vartemberka, son of count Maximiliam of Valdstejna z Vartemberka and countess Catherine Barbara of Harrach

• Ernest Joseph, Count of Valdstejna z Vartemberka, married countess Maria Anna Kokorzowecz of Kokorzowa, daughter of baron Ckristopher Kokorzowecz of Kokorzowa and Eva Catherine Markwart of Hradek

• Francis Joseph, Count of Valdstejna z Vartemberka (his ancestry), married countess Maria Marketa Czernin of Chudenitz, daughter of count Herman Jacob Czernin of Chudenitz and countess Maria Josepha Slavata

• Joseph, Count of Valdstejna z Vartemberka, married countess Josepha of Trautmannsdorff, daughter of count Francis Venceslas of Trautmannsdorff and countess Maria Eleanor of Kaunitz

• George Christian, Count of Valdstejna z Vartemberka (his ancestry), married countess Elisabeth Ulfeldt of Solvesborg, daughter of count Corfitz Anthony Ulfeldt and princess Maria Elisabeth of Lobkowicz

• countess Elisabeth of Valdstejna z Vartemberka, married Joseph Karolyi, Count of Nagy-Karoly, son of Anthony Karolyi, Count of Nagy-Karoly, and Josepha Harruckeren

• countess Frances Karolyi of Nagy-Karoly (her ancestry), married Albert Sztaray, Count of Sztara and Nagy-Mihaly, son of Michael Sztaray, Count of Sztara and Nagy-Mihaly, and countess Maria Anna Eleonora Esterhazy of Galantha

• countess Sophia Sztaray of Sztara and Nagy-Mihaly, married Guyla Apponyi, Count of Nagy-Appony, son of Anthony Apponyi, Count of Nagy-Appony, and countess Theresa Nogarola

• Lajos Apponyi, Count of Nagy-Appony (his ancestry), married countess Marguerite of Scherr-Toss, daughter of count Herman of Scherr-Toss and countess Olga Strachwitz of Gross-Zauche and Camminetz

• Guyla Apponyi, Count of Nagy-Appony, married Gladys Virginia Steuart, daughter of John Steuart and Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding

• countess Geraldine Apponyi of Nagy-Appony (her ancestry), married Zog I, King of the Albanians (Ahmet Muhtar bey Zogu), son of clan chief prinq Xhemal pasha Zogolli, Lord (beylik) of Burgajet castle and Mat district, central Albania, and lady Sadijé Toptani, Queen Mother of the Albanians

• Leka, Crown Prince of Albania (and prinq Burgajet & Mati), married Susan Cullen-Ward, daughter of Alan Robert Cullen-Ward and Phyllis Dorothea Murray-Prior

• Prince Leka of Albania (prinq Leke), Crown Prince's son and heir; his ancestry

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