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Lekë III Dukagjini (1410–1481), mostly known as Lekë Dukagjini, was a 15th-century member of the Albanian nobility, from the Dukagjini family. A contemporary of Skanderbeg, Dukagjini is known for the Kanuni ...
Albanian nobleman and commander of the League of Lezhë
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Moisi Golemi, also known as Moisi of Dibra (Albanian: Moisiu i Dibrës), was an Albanian nobleman and a commander of the League of Lezhë. In 1443–44 he captured all Ottoman holdings in the area of Dibër ...
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Vladan Gjurica (d. April 1465) was an Albanian nobleman and Skanderbeg's main advisor during Skanderbeg's rebellion. He is thought to be from Gjoricë, in modern-day Dibër County from which he got the ...
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Gulielm Blinishti (Latin: Gulielmus fl. 1279–1319) was an Albanian nobleman of the Blinishti family, first mentioned in 1279, during the Angevin expansion. In 1304 after the proclamation of alliance between ...
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Peter Losha (Albanian: , Serbian: , Greek: ) was a 14th-century Albanian despot of Despotate of Arta from 1359 to his death in 1374 under Simeon Uroš.
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Muriq (or Maurice) Shpata was the despot of Despotate of Arta after the death of his brother, Gjin Bua Shpata. Muriq Shpata served as the head of the Despotate until his death in 1415, where he was killed ...
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Gjin Bua Shpata (died 1399), also known as John Bua Spata, was an Albanian ruler of the Despotate of Arta. He was part of the noble Shpata family. He was also despot of Angelokastro and Acheloos (1358 ...
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Gjin Progoni (Latin: Ginius) was an archon (or lord) of Kruja, located in present-day Albania, from c. 1198 until his death in 1208. He succeeded his father, Progon of Kruja, becoming the second ruler ...
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Progon was the first Albanian ruler known by name, an archon of the Kruja fortress (modern Krujë) and its surroundings, known as the Principality of Arbanon. He ruled between 1190 and 1198. Progon was ...
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Tanusio Thopia or Tanush Thopia (Albanian: Tanush Topia fl. 1329–38) was an Angevin Albanian count that served Princes of Taranto Philip I and Robert, and Dukes of Durazzo John and Charles. He had domains ...
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Sgouros Spata (Albanian: Skurra Bua Shpata; fl. 1399–1403) was the Lord of Arta briefly in 1400, and the Lord of Angelokastron from 1401 until his death in 1403, during warfare in a civil war.
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Gregorios Kamonas (fl. c. 1215) was a Greek-Albanian Lord or Prince of Krujë (Arbanon) in ca. 1215. Demetrios Chomatenos (1216–1236) mentioned him as having the title of sebastos. He first married the ...
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The Zaguri were a noble Albanian family that resided in Kotor (present-day Montenegro), at the time part of the Republic of Venice. They were active between the 14th and 16th century. By 1505, they became ...
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The Spani family was a noble Albanian family that emerged in the 14th century. They owned large estates in and around the fortified town of Drivasto and in neighbouring Scutari. During the late 15th c ...
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The Mataranga, Matranga, Matarango or Matrangolo (Matrënga in Albanian) were an Albanian noble family during the 13th and 15th centuries. Members of this family included local rulers, Byzantine officials ...
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The House of Dukagjini is an Albanian noble family which ruled over an area of Northern Albania and Western Kosovo known as the Principality of Dukagjini in the 14th and 15th centuries. They may have been ...
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The Muzaka family was an 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. The ...
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Vonko was a Serbian-Albanian-Bulgarian-Vlach (Serv-Alvanito-Voulgaro-Vlahos) who conquered the Principality of Arta in 1400 according to a Greek monastic chronicle from the Panteleimon Monastery at Ioannina ...
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Golem (Greek: , Albanian: ) was an Albanian lord and vassal of Kruja and Elbasan in circa 1254. He married the daughter of sebastos Gregorios Kamonas and Komnena Nemanjic and was thus entitled the rule ...