Domenico Moncino Musachi

Domenico (Moncino) Musachi or Muzaka is the father of Vojsava Kastrioti, according to the genealogy provided in Gjon Muzaka's "Breve memoria de li discendenti de nostra casa Musachi" (Short memory of the descendants of our house Muzaka). Nothing more is known about him, except he was the brother of Gjin Maria Musachi. Domenico had another daughter, Agnese, the mother of Andrea Angeli. Judging by the name Domenico, he must have been baptized into Catholicism. That the Angeli family were relatives of Kastrioti-Skanderbeg, is attested in historical records:

The same Archbishop of Durazzo [i.e. Pal Engjëlli] was sent as Ambassador of King Ferdinand P.o of Aragon to George Castriota, Prince of Albania, and Epirotes known as Skanderbeg, to help him in the war he was waging against Giovanni, son of Raynald d'Anjou ( sic), and being called Skanderbeg at the request of the said Ambassador with a powerful army to help King Ferdinand in the Kingdom of Naples, he brought with him Count Andrea d'Angelo, Count Michele, and Count Pietro sons of Geromino d'Angelo Despot and Prince of Thessaly, nephew of the said Giorgio Castriota known as Skanderbeg, as noted by the Reverend Demetrio Franco in the life and gestures described by him of the aforementioned Prince Skanderbeg.

Pietro Pompilio Rodotà writes in his "Dell'origine, progresso e stato presente del rito greco in Italia osservato dai greci, monaci basiliani, e albanesi libri tre (Of the origin, progress and present state of the Greek rite in Italy observed by the Greeks, Basilian monks, and Albanians, in three books)" (1763):

This truth is also confirmed by the irrefutable report of Giovanni Battista Monardo; who, giving to light the life of Georgio Castriota in Venice in the year 1584. under the auspices of Girolamo Angelo Flavio, nephew of him of the female line, regrets the terrible fate of having been taken away from the world the male offspring of that famous captain...

The Muzaka were a noble Albanian family that ruled over the region of Myzeqe (southern Albania) in the Late Middle Ages. The Muzaka are also referred to by some authors as a tribe or a clan. The earliest historical document that mentions the Muzaka family (around 1090) is written by the Byzantine historian Anna Komnene. At the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century members of the Muzaka family controlled a region between the rivers of Devoll and Vjosë.