Muzaka Muzakajt | |
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Noble family | |
Country | Medieval Albania |
Current region | Myzeqe |
Place of origin | Lekas (present-day southeastern Albania) |
Founded | 13th century |
Members | |
Connected families | Arianiti Kastrioti |
Domenico (Moncino) Musachi or Muzaka is the father of Vojsava Kastrioti, according to the genealogy provided in Gjon Muzaka's "Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi" (Short memory of the descendants of our house Muzaka). Nothing more is known about him, except he was the brother of Gjin Maria Musachi. Domenico had another daughter, Agnese, the mother of Andrea Angeli.[4] Judging by the name Domenico, he must have been baptized into Catholicism. That the Angeli family were relatives of Kastrioti-Skanderbeg, is attested in historical records:
Pietro Pompilio Rodotà writes in his "Dell'origine, progresso e stato presente del rito greco in Italia osservato dai greci, monaci basiliani, e albanesi libri tre (Of the origin, progress and present state of the Greek rite in Italy observed by the Greeks, Basilian monks, and Albanians, in three books)" (1763):
The Muzaka were a noble Albanian family that ruled over the region of Myzeqe (southern Albania) in the Late Middle Ages. The Muzaka are also referred to by some authors as a tribe or a clan.[7][1] The earliest historical document that mentions the Muzaka family (around 1090) is written by the Byzantine historian Anna Komnene. At the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century members of the Muzaka family controlled a region between the rivers of Devoll and Vjosë.