Jevdokija Balšić

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Jevdokija Balšić (Serbian: Јевдокија Балшић; died after 1428), was a Serbian aristocrat and the wife of Esau de' Buondelmonti, despot of Ioannina.

Life[]

Jevdokija was the daughter of Đurađ I Balšić, lord of Zeta, and Theodora Dejanović, daughter Dejan, despot of Kumanovo.[1] Around 1402, Esau de' Buondelmonti, despot of Ioannina, got divorce of his second wife Irene Spata and he married with Jevdokija.[2] In 1411, they had a son, Giorgio. In that year, Esau died and was succeeded by Giorgio.[3] Jevdokija tried to take the control of Ioannina in the name of her son.[4] However, she was unpopular among the nobility of Ioannina. When she wanted to get married with a Serbian noble, she was deposed by the nobility of Ioannina;[5] they gave the city to Carlo I Tocco, Count Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos and Esau’s nephew.[6]

After she was expelled, Jevdokija went to the court of John Zenevisi, prince of Argyrokastro. Then, she traveled to Ragusa, where she lived with Giorgio until her dead after 1428.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Kašanin 1975, p. 506.
  2. ^ Höfische Kultur in Südosteuropa: Bericht der Kolloquien der Südosteuropa-Kommission 1988 bis 1990, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Südosteuropa-Kommission. Kolloquium, Reinhard Lauer, Hans Georg Majer, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1994, p. 98
  3. ^ PLP, 8147. Ιζαού.
  4. ^ Fine 1994, p. 356.
  5. ^ Nicol 2010, p. 173.
  6. ^ Zečević 2014, p. 80.
  7. ^ PLP, 6230. Εὐδοκία.

Sources[]

  • Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994) [1987]. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08260-4.
  • Kašanin, Milan (1975). Srpska književnost u srednjem veku (in Serbian). Prosveta.
  • Nicol, Donald MacGillivray (2010). The Despotate of Epiros 1267–1479: A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13089-9.
  • Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.
  • Zečević, Nada (2014). The Tocco of the Greek Realm: Nobility, Power and Migration in Latin Greece (14th – 15th Centuries). Belgrade: Makart. ISBN 978-8687115118.
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