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Jerina Branković (wife of Gjon Kastrioti II)

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Jerina Branković
Full name
Jerina Branković
Noble familyBranković (by birth)
Kastrioti (by marriage)
SpouseGjon Kastrioti II
IssueFerdinand Castriota
Maria Castriota
Costantino
Giorgio Castriota
Alfonso Castriota
FatherLazar Branković
MotherHelena Palaiologina

Jerina Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Јерина Бранковић) or Irina (Ирина[1]), was a Serbian noblewoman and the wife of Gjon Kastrioti II. She was the third daughter of Lazar Branković and Helena Palaiologina.

Family

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Jerina had two sisters, Maria of Serbia, the wife of King Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia, and Milica, wife of Leonardo III Tocco of Epirus.

Jerina married Gjon Kastrioti II,[2][3] the only child of Skanderbeg, and had the following issue:

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Dejan Nikolić (1996). Svi vladari Srbije. Narodna biblioteka "Resavska škola". већ само кћерке - Јелачу (Јелену), Ирину и Милицу
  2. ^ Theodore Spandounes (Spandugnino), De la origine deli Imperatori Ottomani, Sathas, C. N. (ed.) (1890) Documents inédits relatifs à l'histoire de la Grèce au moyen âge, IX (Paris), p. 159
  3. ^ a b c Hopf, Carlo, ed. (1873). "Breve Memoria de li Discendenti de Nostra Casa Musachi" (PDF). vatrarberesh (in Italian). p. 284. Retrieved 2023-10-15.