Jerina Branković (wife of Gjon Kastrioti II)

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Jerina Branković
Full name
Jerina Branković
Noble familyBranković (by birth)
Kastrioti (by marriage)
SpouseGjon Kastrioti II
IssueFerrante
Maria
Costantino
FatherLazar Branković
MotherHelena Palaiologina

Jerina Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јерина Бранковић) or Irina (Ирина[1]), was a Serbian noblewoman and the wife of Gjon Kastrioti II. She was the third daughter of Lazar Branković and Helena Palaiologina.

Family[edit]

Jerina had two sisters, Maria of Serbia, the wife of King Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, and Milica, wife of Leonardo III Tocco of Epirus.

Jerina married Gjon Kastrioti II,[2][3] the only child of Skanderbeg, and had the following issue:

Ancestry[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Dejan Nikolić (1996). Svi vladari Srbije. Narodna biblioteka "Resavska škola". већ само кћерке - Јелачу (Јелену), Ирину и Милицу
  2. ^ Theodore Spandounes (Spandugnino), De la origine deli Imperatori Ottomani, Sathas, C. N. (ed.) (1890) Documents inédits relatifs à l'histoire de la Grèce au moyen âge, IX (Paris), p. 159
  3. ^ a b c Hopf, Carlo, ed. (1873). "Breve Memoria de li Discendenti de Nostra Casa Musachi" (PDF). vatrarberesh (in Italian). p. 284. Retrieved 2023-10-15.