Blasius Matarango

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Blasius Matarango ( Albanian  Vlash Matrënga , Serbian Блаж Матаранго Blaž Matarango ; † 1367 ) was an Albanian prince.

Life

Blasius came from the noble, wealthy Matarango family in the southern Albanian coastal region between Durazzo and Valona , whose first known members are mentioned in a document from the Republic of Ragusa in 1297 . Temporary vassals of the Byzantine emperor , they accepted the suzerainty of Philip I of Taranto at the beginning of the 14th century , who recaptured Durazzo in 1304 for the Angevin kingdom of Naples . Between 1336 and 1343 their territory was incorporated into the expanding Kingdom of Serbs under Stefan Uroš IV. Dušan .

After Dušan's death on December 20, 1355, Blasius Matarango established himself as a quasi-autonomous prince north of Valona in the Myzeqe ( Karavasta ) region between the lower reaches of the Shkumbin and Seman rivers . He recognized the suzerainty of the Thessalian Nemanjidenzar Simeon Uroš Palaiologos , who in 1358 granted him the high court dignity of sebastocrator for his loyal vassal services , which at the same time increased the legitimacy of his rule over the Greek-Albanian population.

Blasius Matarango died in 1367; its territories fell to the princeps Albaniae Karl Thopia .

literature

  • Dimiter Angelov: Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85703-1 .
  • John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A critical Survey from the late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI 1994, ISBN 0-472-08260-4 .
  • Constantin Jireček : History of the Serbs. Volume 1: Until 1371. Perthes, Gotha 1911 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1967), p. 415.
  • Oliver Jens Schmitt : The Venetian Albania (1392–1479) (= Southeast European works. Volume 110). Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56569-9 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dimiter Angelov: Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204-1330. P. 319.
  2. ^ John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans… p. 357;
    Oliver Jens Schmitt: The Venetian Albania (1392-1479). P. 188.
personal data
SURNAME Blasius Matarango
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vlash Matrënga; Blaž Matarango; Блаж Матаранго (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian prince, Sebastokrator under Tsar Simeon Uroš Palaiologos
DATE OF BIRTH before 1355
DATE OF DEATH 1367