Coat of Arms of Albanian Noblility

[Johane Derite]

Albanian nobility is not well known, here is some coat of arms of some noble Albanian families:





Some of the more well known families from this image are the:

Albani Family (Pope Clement XI was from this family): https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Albani_family


Durazzo Family: https://www.wikiwand.com/it/Durazzo_(famiglia)


Castrioita Family (Skenderbeg's Family): https://www.wikiwand.com/en/House_of_Kastrioti


Arianiti Family: https://www.wikiwand.com/sv/Arianiti


Dukagjini Family: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dukagjini_family


Shpata/Spata Family: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Spata_family



A list of some more families can be found here: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Albanian_nobility




NOTE:If you are interested in these links then try different wikipedia translations for each family as its quite common that there will be more, less, or different individuals listed based
on who the person that added the info was.

 

[Johane Derite]

A few of these nobility are on this meme of notable albanians

 

[Diomedes]

You know that black and red are not supposed to go together in coat of arms, right OP?

 

[Johane Derite]

You know that black and red are not supposed to go together in coat of arms, right OP?

 

[davef]

LOL!!!! Upvoted for pic!

 

[Diomedes]

Not cool actually. This is a major mistake and I do not know how these people made it. Perhaps they were outside the sphere of the West-type chivalry.

 

[LABERIA]

Here is an interesting article about the Nobilty of Albania:

The History and Register
of The Nobility of Albania

 

[LABERIA]

double post.

 

[Joey37]

I always thought the Albanian two-headed eagle came from the Byzantine two-headed eagle.

 

[Johane Derite]

*resolved*

 

[Johane Derite]

I always thought the Albanian two-headed eagle came from the Byzantine two-headed eagle.

@Joey37 here is Robert Elsie on your question

 

[Johane Derite]

The Matrënga Family. (Matranga in Italian). In pop culture they appear in the American film "Vendetta" 1999 as there is a feud between the Matranga and Provenzano families in the backdrop of the 1891 New Orleans lynchings of Italian americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mataranga_family


Lekë Matrënga is the writer of the oldest Tosk Albanian text that we know of until now. He was part of the Matrenga Arberesh community in Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Matranga