Gropa family

{{Short description|Albanian noble family}}

{{Infobox noble house

|surname = Gropa

|estates = (eastern Albania and western Macedonia);

The region between Pogradec, Ohrid and Debar:{{when|date=March 2012}}

  • Ohrid (1377-1385)

|coat_of_arms = Stema e Gropave.png

|coat_of_arms_caption = Coat of arms of the Gropa as depicted in the 1680 catalogue "La Universita delle Insegne Ligustiche Delineate da Gio Andrea Musso" (p.13)

|country = {{ubl|Kingdom of Sicily (fl. 1273)

|Serbian Empire (1355-1355)

|Ally to Mrnjavčević family (1355-1371)Srejović;Gavrilović;Ćirković 1982, p. 24: "Андрија Гропа, пре маричке битке несумњиво вазал Мрњавчевића"

|Rival of Prince Marko and independent ruler (1371-1395)

|League of Lezhë (1444-1479)}}

|titles = Gospodar (lord)

|founded = before 1242

|final ruler = Zacharia Gropa

|dissolution = 1467 (emigration to Italy)}}

The Gropa were a noble Albanian family which ruled the region between Pogradec, Ohrid and Debar from the 12th until the 14th century.Vlora 1956, [http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_3/AH1956_1.html 5. Gropa] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127011910/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_3/AH1956_1.html |date=2012-01-27 }}: "The sphere of influence of the Gropas was no doubt concentrated in the region between Pogradec, Ohrid and Dibra. They seem to have ruled in that area for more than 3 centuries"

In the 13th century members of the Gropa family were thought to be Catholics, but in the 14th century they reconverted to Orthodoxy because of the political relations with the Archbishopric of Ohrid.

Bulgarian historical review 2003, [https://books.google.com/books?id=lD5pAAAAMAAJ&q=%22gropa%22 p. 177]

History

At the beginning of the 13th century, Pal Gropa, an Albanian nobleman, held the Byzantine title of Sevast.{{cite book |last1=Dervishi |first1=Nebi |title=Etnokultura e Fushëgropës së Ohrit |date=2005 |publisher=Çabej |location=Tetovo |page=72 |access-date=24 October 2021|url=https://www.botimpex.com/index.php?p=liber&l=4042}} As part of the Kingdom of Albania, Pal Gropa was given extended privileges by Charles I of Naples on May 18, 1273: "nobili viro sevasto Paulo Gropa »casalia Radicis maioris et Radicis minons, пeс non Cobocheste, Zuadigorica, Sirclani et Craye, Zessizan sitam in valle de Ebu".{{harvnb|Šufflay|1925|p=126}}{{harvnb|Lala|Jaritz|2008|p=20}}

A member of Gropa family, Andrea Gropa, ruled the region and the city of Ohrid as an ally of the King of Serbia, Vukašin Mrnjavčević, until his death in 1371. He then became involved in a rivalry with Vukašin's son, Prince Marko. Ruling as an independent ruler since the time of Vukašin, he became de jure independent from Prince Marko in 1371 and was referred to as Župan and Gospodar of Ohrid (Lord of Ochrid). He joined the Albanian ruler and noble Andrea II Muzaka, and managed to take Kostur, Prilep and the entire Dibër region from Marko by that year. During Andrea's reign, the Gropa family forged their own coins. The Gropa family were believed to have taken part in the Balkan coalition of the Battle of Kosovo against the Ottomans.{{cite book |last1=Ζώης|first1=Nebi |title=Etnokultura e Fushëgropës së Ohrit |date=2005 |publisher=Çabej |location=Tetovo |page=73 |access-date=24 October 2021|url=https://www.botimpex.com/index.php?p=liber&l=4042}}

Zacharia Gropa is mentioned by Athanase Gegaj as one of the military commanders of Skanderbeg's forces.{{cite book|last=Gegaj|first=Athanase|title=L'Albanie et l'Invasion turque au XVe siècle|year=1937|publisher=Universite de Louvain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usxBAAAAYAAJ&q=gropa+albania+skanderbeg|access-date=24 March 2012|page=117|isbn=9780598935991|language=fr|quote=l'intention d'y livrer une bataille décisive (i); mais Scanderbeg se retira plus loin, dans les montagnes ... un autre contingent fut confié à Moïs Dibra et le troisième à plusieurs chefs, dont Pietro Emanueli et Zaccaria Gropa.}} The Gropa family's descendants were located in Sicily at the end of the 15th century, and would later be found all over southern Italy and in Zakynthos in Greece.{{cite book |last1=Ζώης|first1=Λεωνίδας Χ|title=Λεξικόν φιλολογικόν και ιστορικόν Ζακύνθου

|date=1898|publisher=Ο Φώσκολος|location=Zakynthos |page=202 |access-date=13 January 2022|url=http://digital.lib.auth.gr/record/132919/files/003.pdf}}

Members

References

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