Peter Losha

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The partial principalities of the Albanian magnates in the crumbling Serbian Empire, around 1360

Peter Losha ( Albanian  Pjetër Llosha ; Serbian Петар Лоша Petar Loša , Middle Greek Πέτρος Λέοσας Pétros Léosas , † 1374 in Arta ) was an Albanian prince in southern Epirus .

Life

Peter Losha's genealogical and ethnic origins are in the dark. According to the writer Ekrem Bey Vlora , he is said to come from an Albanian aristocratic family that brought around 10,000 Albanians to the plains of Thessaly between 1220 and 1235 .

In the spring / summer of 1359 a coalition of rebellious Albanian tribes under the leadership of Gjin Bua Shpata and Peter Losha defeated the despot of Ioannina , Nikephoros II. Dukas , in the battle of the Acheloos , who died after the death of the Serbian emperor Stefan Dušan (1346-1355) returned to Epirus from Byzantine exile . The Thessalian emperor Simeon Uroš Palaiologos , a brother of Dušan and brother-in-law of Nikephoros, had to let Losha rule over the region on the Ambracian Gulf with the fortresses Arta and Rogoi ; Bua Shpata established himself as a quasi-autonomous prince in Aetolia-Akarnania , bordering to the south . Losha and Bua Shpata recognized Simeon's suzerainty , who in return granted them the despot dignity of 1359 or a little later , thus increasing the legitimacy of their rule.

The political situation for Peter Losha and the other Albanian magnates in Epirus deteriorated when in 1366 the Serbian governor of Ioannina, Thomas Preljubović , went into business for himself. The Albanian clans of Mazaraki and Malakasa , under Losha's leadership, rebelled against their new overlord and besieged Ioannina for almost three years. The conflict was only resolved in 1370 through marriage diplomacy. Losha accepted his formal status as Preljubović's vassal , who gave his daughter Irene to the son of the Albanian prince, Gjin Losha , as a wife.

Peter Losha died of the plague in Arta in 1374 . His son could not assert rule against Gjin Bua Shpata, who incorporated the despotate Arta into his territory that same year.

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literature

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  • Robert Elsie , Bejtullah D. Destani, Rudina Jasini (Eds.): The Cham Albanians of Greece: A Documentary History. IBTauris, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-78076-000-1 .
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  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Тесалија у XIII и XIV веку (= Посебна издања. Vol. 15). Византолошки институт САНУ, Београд 1974, pp. 200, 243.
  • 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 .
  • Alexandru Madgearu, Martin Gordon: The Wars of the Balkan Peninsula: Their Medieval Origins. Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD 2008, ISBN 978-0-8108-5846-6 , p. 83.
  • Donald M. Nicol : The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479. A contribution to the history of Greece in the middle ages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1984, ISBN 0-521-26190-2 .
  • Brendan Osswald: The Ethnic Composition of Medieval Epirus. In: Steven G. Ellis, Lud'a Klusáková (Ed.): Imagining Frontiers, Contesting Identities (= Creating links and innovative overviews for a New History Research Agenda for the citizens of a growing Europe. Vol. 2). Edizioni Plus, Pisa 2007, ISBN 978-88-8492-466-7 , pp. 125–154, here: p. 151.
  • Giuseppe Schirò: Cronaca dei Tocco di Cefalonia (= Scrittori bizantini. Vol. 1). Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome 1975, ISBN 88-218-0779-7 , pp. 14-17, 55, 60.
  • George Christos Soulis: The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (1331-1355) and his successors. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC 1984, ISBN 0-88402-137-8 , OCLC 59251762 , pp. 121-125.
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Katja Sturm-Schnabl : Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 6. Fascicle: Κομονηός - [Λω] χω [μαλ] άτης (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/6). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0567-3 , p. 193 No. 14983.

Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 6, p. 193.
  2. ↑ See Elsie et al., Cham Albanians , p. XXXI.
  3. ↑ Cf. Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 348 f.
  4. ↑ See Nicol, Despotate , p. 142.
  5. ↑ See Osswald, Ethnic Composition , p. 151.
  6. ↑ See Nicol, Despotate , pp. 142–145.
  7. ↑ See Nicol, Despotate , p. 142.
personal data
SURNAME Peter Losha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pjetër Llosha (Albanian); Петар Лоша (Serbian); Πέτρος Λέοσας (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian prince in southern Epirus, despot under Tsar Simeon Uroš Palaiologos
DATE OF BIRTH before 1359
DATE OF DEATH 1374
Place of death Arta