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Voisava Balšić Voisava Balsha
Princess of Albania Princess of Zeta
Coat of Arms of the Balsha family
Princess consort of Albania
Tenure	1370–1388
Predecessor	Hélène of Anjou (As Countess of Mat)
Successor	Teodora Branković

Born	14th Century Principality of Zeta
Spouse	Karl Thopia (m. 1370; died 1388)
Issue	Gjergj Thopia Helena Thopia Voisava Thopia
House	Balsha
Father	Balsha I
Mother	Unknown

Voisava Balšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Воисава Балшић; Albanian: Voisava Balsha), also known as Vojislava, Vojsava or Voislava was an Albanian princess and member of the Balsha family.

Life

Voisava was the daughter of Balsha I, a provincial lord who held the title Lord of Zeta. ^[1]^[2] Her mother's identity remains unknown, and details about her early life are scarce. She was married to Karl Thopia, Prince of Albania around the year 1370.^[3]^[4]^[1]^[2]^[5]

Her husband Karl Thopia died in 1388, where he was buried in Saint John Vladimir's Church.^[6] Their son, Gjergj Thopia, became Karl's successor.^[7]

Family

Voisava married Karl Thopia, in c. 1370. The pair had three children:^[1]^[5]

Gjergj Thopia (fl. 1388–d. 1392), Prince of Albania, Lord of Durrës, married Teodora Branković
Helena Thopia (fl. 1388–1403), married Venetian count Marco Barbadigo (first marriage) and lord Kostandin Balsha (second marriage)
Voisava Thopia, married N. Cursachio (first marriage) and in 1394, Progon Dukagjini, Lord of Lezhë and uncle of Pal Dukagjini^[8] (second marriage)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Hopf 1873, p. 532.
^ ^a ^b Elsie 2003, p. 52.
^ Molina 2022, p. 83.
^ Numismatischer Verlag Fritz-Rudolf Künker 2008, p. 284.
^ ^a ^b Sainty 2018, p. 503.
^ Jacques 2009, p. 167.
^ Jacques 2009, p. 174.
^ Anamali 2002, p. 309.

Bibliography

Anamali, Skënder (2002). Historia e popullit shqiptar [The history of the Albanian people] (in Albanian). Botimet Toena. ISBN 978-9-9927-1622-9.
Elsie, Robert (2003). Early Albania A Reader of Historical Texts, 11th-17th Centuries. Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-4470-4783-8.
Hopf, Karl (1873). Chroniques greco-romanes inedites ou peu connues [Unpublished or little-known Greco-Roman chronicles] (in French). Weidmann.
Jacques, Edwin E. (2009). The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present - Volume 1. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-8995-0932-7.
Molina, Grabiela Rojas (2022). Decoding Debate in the Venetian Senate Short Stories of Crisis and Response on Albania (1392-1402). Brill. ISBN 978-9-0045-2093-6.
Numismatischer Verlag Fritz-Rudolf Künker (2008). Künker Auktion 137 - The De Wit Collection of Medieval Coins, 1000 Years of European Coinage, Part III: England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Balkan, the Middle East, Crusader States, Jetons und Weights. Numismatischer Verlag Künker.
Sainty, Guy Stair (2018). The Constantinian Order of Saint George and the Angeli, Farnese and Bourbon families which governed it. Boletín Oficial del Estado. ISBN 978-8-4340-2506-6.

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