A Rare 16th-Century Source Confirms the Noble Albanian Origins of Vojsava, Mother of Skanderbeg

A Rare 16th-Century Source Confirms the Noble Albanian Origins of Vojsava, Mother of Skanderbeg

A rare historical document from the mid-16th century sheds new light on the noble lineage of Vojsava, the mother of Albania’s National Hero, Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg. Published in 1551, the work “Genealogia degl’Imperatori Romani et Constantinopolitani, et de’ Re, Principi, et Signori discesi da Isaaco Angelo, et dal suo Nipote Imperatore Vespasiano” by Andrea Comneno, provides one of the earliest written sources confirming Vojsava’s Albanian…