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Voisava, known erraneously as Voisava Tripalda ( 1402–05) was a noble woman, the wife of Gjon Kastrioti, with whom she had nine children, one of whom was the most powerful Albanian nobleman in history, proclaimed national hero George Kastrioti ''"Skanderbeg"''. ==Early sources== The earliest works mentioning Voisava are: *Marin Barleti (1450–1513), the Albanian-Venetian historian, wrote in his biography of Skanderbeg (published between 1508–10), that her "father was a Triballian nobleman" (''pater nobilissimus Triballorum princeps'').〔Barletius, l. I, fo 2: «uxori Voisavae nomen erat non indignam eo viro tum pater nobilissimus Triballorum princeps, tum forma...»〕〔Gegaj 1937, (p. 40 )〕 In another chapter, when talking about the inhabitants of Upper Debar that defended Svetigrad, he calls them "Bulgarians or Triballi" (''Bulgari sive Tribali habitant'').〔Barletius, l. V, fo. 62: "Superior Dibra montuosa est et aspera, ferax tarnen et Macedoniam tum ipsa loci vicinitate, tum similitudine morum contingens. Bulgari sive Tribali habitant"〕 The term "Triballians" (Triballoi) was used in Byzantine works as an exonym for Serbs. *Gjon Muzaka ( 1515), a member of the Albanian Muzaka family in Italy, mentioned her in his chronicle (published in 1515) as ''Voisava Tripalda'', "who was of a noble family", and alleged that the "Marquis of Tripalda" was maternally related to the Muzaka,〔Musachi, (p. 301 ): "Accio sappiate, in che modo c'era parente il Signor marchese della Tripalda, ve dico, che l'e per parte de donna... (Know that the Marquis of Tripalda is related to us by a female line);〕 and that the marquises were related to Voisava. Furthermore, in another chapter, Muzaka explains that "Tribali" is another name for Serbs. According to W. Miller,〔 and von Hahn, the surname (''Tripalda'') added by Muzaka is a corruption, a derivative from Barleti's quote on the Triballi.〔J.G. von Hahn, Reise durch die Gebiet des Drin und Wardar, p. 305: "Skanderbeg's Mutter wird von dem Despoten einmal Visava Tribalda ( *), ein andersmal Voisava Tripalda genannt, ...". ( *)(Footnote 3) "Dieser Name mag vielleicth Anlass zu der sonderbaren Angabe des Barletius S. 4 gegeben haben, dass ihr Vater nobilissimus Tribalorum princeps gewesen sei."〕〔Denkschriften Vol. 16, 1869, (p. 117 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Voisava」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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