Mara Thopia (), was a member of the

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Thopia family The Thopia were one of the most powerful Albanian feudal families in the Late Middle Ages, part of the nobility of the Angevin Kingdom of Albania. Early history The first attestation of the Thopia can be found in an Angevin document from 1274 ...

and the daughter of

Niketa Thopia Niketa Thopia (, ; 1388 – d. 1415), also known as Nikola was the Lord of Krujë between 1392—1394 and 1403–1415. He was a member of the Albanians, Albanian Thopia family and an illegitimate son of Karl Thopia, the Prince of Albania (r. 1368� ...

, the Lord of Krujë.

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Mara was the daughter of

. The identity of Mara's mother is disputed. According to Shuteriqi, she was the daughter of

Komnen Arianiti Komnen Arianiti ( 1392–1407) was an Albanian nobleman of the Arianiti family, who held an area in central Albania around Durrës. His son Gjergj became a prominent leader of the Albanian-Ottoman wars. Life The Albanian Academy treats him ...

. Meanwhile, Karl Hopf suggests that Niketa Thopia married the daughter of Maurizio Bua Sgouros. Much isn't known about her early life. Mara married Balsha III in 1407. They had one daughter Jelena Balsha who was named after Balshas

mother A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ges ...

. Mara's

father A father is the male parent of a child. Besides the paternal bonds of a father to his children, the father may have a parental, legal, and social relationship with the child that carries with it certain rights and obligations. A biological fat ...

and her

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allied to drive out the Venetians. It is unknown when Balsha III divorced Mara but he was remarried to Boglia Zaharia by late 1412 or the beginning of 1413.Albanološki institut u Prištini 196
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"Poznato je takođe da se Balša III krajem 1412 ili početkom 1413 godine oženio u drugom braku ćerkom Koe Zaharije" Mara Thopia is also the Grandmother of

Catherine of Bosnia Catherine of Bosnia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Katarina Kosača, Катарина Косача; 1424/1425 – 25 October 1478) was Queen of Bosnia as the wife of King Thomas, the penultimate Bosnian sovereign. She was born into the powerful ...

. Who was the Queen of the

Kingdom of Bosnia The Kingdom of Bosnia ( / Краљевина Босна), or Bosnian Kingdom (''Bosansko kraljevstvo'' / Босанско краљевство), was a medieval kingdom that lasted for nearly a century, from 1377 to 1463, and evolved out of the ...

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* {{Citation , last=Spremić , first=Momčilo , author-link=Momčilo Spremić , editor=Jovan Ćulibrk , title=Crkvene prilike u Zeti u doba Nikona Jerusalimca , url=http://www.rastko.org.rs/bogoslovlje/nikon/simposion/mspremic-zeta_c.html , year=2004 , publisher=Svetigora, Publikum , location=Cetinje, Belgrade , language=sr , pages=73–108 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211012233/http://www.rastko.org.rs/bogoslovlje/nikon/simposion/mspremic-zeta_c.html , archive-date=11 December 2013 14th-century births Principality of Albania (medieval) 14th-century Albanian people Thopia family Arianiti family Albanian royal consorts Albanian princesses

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