Gjin Bua Shpata

✓ Source-basedfalling

Despot of Arta (1310-1399)

PoliticiansLived 1310 to 1399 · aged 89

Compare

Fame47.5

Momentum0.2

Languages15

In century#781

Gjin Bua Shpata was an Albanian ruler of the despotate of Arta in Western Greece with the title of Despot. Together with Pjetër Losha, he led raids into Epirus, Acarnania and Aetolia in 1358.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 4

Despotate of Arta, c. 1390

Map detail of magnate provinces in c. 1360.

Possessions of Shpata.

Politicians born in the 1310s 6

Al-Mu'tadid I47.5 Han Shantong47.0

Lorenzo Celsi47.9

Marie de Bourbon, Princess of Achaea45.7 Al-Hakim II48.9 Shihab ad-Din Ahmad45.0

About this person

Gjin Bua Shpata was an Albanian ruler of the despotate of Arta in Western Greece with the title of Despot. Together with Pjetër Losha, he led raids into Epirus, Acarnania and Aetolia in 1358. As a victor in the battle of Achelous, he was recognized in early 1360s as a Despot of Aetolia and Acarnania by Simeon Uroš Nemanjić, who ruled from Thessaly as a self-proclaimed "Emperor of Greeks, Serbs, and Albanians". He also ruled over Naupactus (1378-1399) and inherited Arta (1370s-1399) from Peter Losha. He was born sometime in the first half of the 14th century in Epirus, as his father was a ruler in the region.