Pal Kastrioti

Pal Kastrioti
Lord of Sina and Lower Gardi Segnior de Signa et de Gardi-ipostesi
Noble family	Kastrioti
Occupation	Feudal lord

Pal Kastrioti (fl. 1383—1407) was an Albanian nobleman attested in c. 1383 as the lord of two villages, Sina and Lower Gardi. According to Gjon Muzaka Pal had three sons: Konstantin, Alexius and Gjon Kastrioti, the latter who was Skanderbeg's father.

The first person to be mentioned as a Kastriot in historical documents, was a ruler (kephale or castellan in contemporary sources) of the Kanina in 1368. which belonged to the Principality of Valona. It is assumed by Ivan Božić that Pal's father received his estates in Albania from Serbian Emperor Dušan after he captured Berat, Valona and Kanina in 1345.Heinrich Kretschmayr asserts that Pal Kastrioti, the father of Gjon Kastrioti and grandfather of Skanderbeg, was in fact Kephale of Kanina in 1368. According to French historian Alain Ducellier and Albanian scholar Fan S. Noli, there is no proof that Kephale Kastriot was the ancestor of Skanderbeg.Noli further notes that, according to Andrea Engjell Flav Komneni, prince of Drisht and Bar, Skanderbeg's great-grandfather and Pal Kastrioti's father was Konstandin Kastrioti.German historian, Franz Babinger, argued in the 1960s that there seems to have been a scientific consensus that kephale Branilo Kastrioti, Skanderbeg's great-grandfather and the earliest known ancestor of Skanderbeg, was of Serbian origin. John Muzaki also, in his chronicle characterizes George Kastriote Skanderbeg as "of Serbian nature".f>

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