Sguros Bua Shpata ( Alb. Skurra Bua Shpata or Alb. Sgouros (Zgur) Bua Shpata ; d. 1403 , Angelokastron), or Sgur Bois Shpat - despot of Arta in 1399, as well as despot of Angelokastron and Lepanto from 1399 until his death in 1403 during the internecine war in the Art despot .
| Sguros Bois Spat | |||||||
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| Skurra Bua Shpata | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Guin Bois Spat | ||||||
| Successor | Wonko | ||||||
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| Successor | Paul Bois Spat | ||||||
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| Death | 1403 | ||||||
| Father | Pietro Bois Spat | ||||||
| Children | Paul | ||||||
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Legacy
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
Not long before Gin Bois Spat died in 1399 [1] , he appointed his brother Sguros Bois Spat, who then ruled Lepanto , as his successor on the throne of the Art Despot . Sguros arrived in Artu in 1399, however, soon the city was captured by the adventurer Wonko [approx. 1] [2] [3] [4] .
Sguros Shpata fled to Angelokastron and became an independent ruler of the region [5] . At the same time, the nephew of Sguros, Murik Shpat, was able to overthrow Wonko from the throne of Art and himself took control of the capital of the despotate in December 1399. Sguros remained the despot of Angelacostron and Lepanto [1] [5] .
In 1402-1403, the forces of Count Kefalia and Zakynthos Carlo I Tokko attacked the possessions of Sguros Shpat. Sgur was soon besieged in his capital by Angelokastron. Murik Shpata came to the aid of his relative and the attack of the troops Carlo Tokko was repulsed, but soon after that Sguros died from wounds received during the fighting [6] .
Legacy
The new ruler of Angelokastron and Lepanto was the son of Sguros - Paul Bois Shpat [7] . Carlo I Tokko did not abandon his goals to capture Angelokastron and Paul decided to become a vassal of the Ottoman Empire . However, the Ottoman Turks were defeated and entered into an alliance with Tokko. Murik Shpata refused to come to the rescue of Paulo and he lost to the Ottomans Angelokastron, becoming the rule of only Lepanto . However, he sold this city to Venice in 1407 or in 1408. And in 1408, Carlo Tokko managed to capture Angelokastron [5] .
Notes
- Comments
- ↑ A Greek monastic chronicle from Panteleimon’s monastery in Ioannina said that on Wednesday, October 29 (1400), the despot Gin Bois Shpat died. Immediately after this, his brother Sguros became the ruler of Arta. A few days later, a Serb-Albanian-Bulgarian vlah named Vonko attacked and expelled Sguros, and also began to repress all the leaders, elders and imprisoned them in the fort, destroying their property.
- Footnotes
- ↑ 1 2 Nicol, 2010 , pp. 164, 169.
- ↑ Banac, 1988 , pp. 328.
- ↑ Stoianovich, 1994 , pp. 132.
- ↑ Šufflay, 1925 , pp. 69–70.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Fine, 1994 , pp. 355–356.
- ↑ Fine, 1994 , p. 356.
- ↑ Nicol, 2010 , p. 170.
Literature
- Ivo Banac. The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics . - Cornell University Press, 1988 .-- ISBN 0-8014-9493-1 .
- Traian Stoianovich. Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe . - ME Sharpe, 1994 .-- ISBN 978-0-7656-3851-9 .
- Fine, John Van Antwerp. The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest . - University of Michigan Press, 1994. - ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5 .
- Nicol, Donald MacGillivray. The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479: A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages . - Cambridge University Press, 2010 .-- ISBN 978-0-521-13089-9 .
- Milan Šufflay. Srbi i Arbanasi . - 1925.