Jerina Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Јерина Бранковић) or Irina (Ирина), was a

Serbian Serbian may refer to: * Pertaining to Serbia in Southeast Europe; in particular **Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans ** Serbian language ** Serbian culture **Demographics of Serbia, includes other ethnic groups within the co ...

noblewoman and the wife of

Gjon Kastrioti II Gjon II Kastrioti (;Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi, p. 2841456–2 August 1514), was an Albanians, Albanian prince and the son of Skanderbeg, Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg, the Albanian national hero, and of Donika Kastriot ...

. She was the third daughter of

Lazar Branković Lazar Branković ( sr-cyr, Лазар Бранковић; – 20 February 1458) was Despot of Serbia from 1456 to 1458. He was the third son of Despot Đurađ Branković and his wife, Eirene Kantakouzene. He died without sons, and was succeed ...

and

Helena Palaiologina Helena Palaiologina (; 3 February 1428 – 11 April 1458) was a Byzantine princess of the Palaiologos family, who became Queen of Cyprus and Armenia, titular Queen consort of Jerusalem, and Princess of Antioch through her marriage to King John ...

Family

Jerina had two sisters, Maria of Serbia, the wife of King

Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia Stephen Tomašević or Stephen II ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Stjepan/Stefan Tomašević, Стјепан/Стефан Томашевић; – 25 May 1463) was the last sovereign from the Bosnian Kotromanić dynasty, reigning as Despot of Serbia briefly in 1 ...

, and Milica, wife of

Leonardo III Tocco Leonardo III Tocco (after 1436 – before August 1503) was the last ruler of the Despotate of Epirus, ruling from the death of his father Carlo II Tocco in 1448 to the despotate's fall to the Ottoman Empire in 1479. Leonardo was one of the last in ...

Epirus Epirus () is a Region#Geographical regions, geographical and historical region, historical region in southeastern Europe, now shared between Greece and Albania. It lies between the Pindus Mountains and the Ionian Sea, stretching from the Bay ...

. Jerina married Gjon Kastrioti II,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 the only child of

Skanderbeg Gjergj Kastrioti (17 January 1468), commonly known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanians, Albanian Albanian nobility, feudal lord and military commander who led Skanderbeg's rebellion, a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, ...

, and had the following issue: *

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(b. 1477 d. 1500),

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* Ferdinand Castriota (d. 1561), Duke of San Pietro in Galatina *

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(d. 1569)

Ancestry

References

15th-century Serbian royalty Branković dynasty Medieval Serbian princesses People from the Serbian Despotate Medieval Serbian people House of Kastrioti 15th-century Serbian women Princesses consort of Albania Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Place of birth missing {{Serbia-bio-stub