Bue Shpata
The Bue Shpata (also Bua Spata ) were a noble Albanian family. The oldest written source in which a member of this sex is mentioned dates to the year 1304. The Bue Shpata - or just Bue or just Shpata - gained greater power under the government of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan (1346-1355) and reputation. Nikola Bue Shpata was protovestarius of the Serbian tsar from 1345 to 1349 . His son Pjetër I was named in 1354 as Lord of Delvino and Angelokastron (since 2011 a district of Agrinio ) in the Despotate of Epirus .
The most powerful representative of the sex was Gjin Bua Shpata (also Ghin Bua Spata ) († 1400). Since 1358 he has been attested as the despot of Angelokastron and Acheloos . After 1375 he also ruled Arta and Lepanto .
Pjetër II participated under Skanderbeg (1405-1468) in the League of Lezha against the Ottomans .
The other family members living in the second half of the 15th century mostly sold their small dominions in Greece and Albania to the Republic of Venice , and some also became vassals of the Ottomans.