Andrea I Thopia

Andrea I Thopia (died c. 1340 at Naples) belonged to the Thopia, an Albanian family that by 1340 held much of the land between the Mati and Shkumbin rivers. In 1338 he inherited the County of Mat from Tanush Thopia.

His fall came through a marriage. King Robert of Naples had promised a natural daughter to a ruler in the Morea and sent her to Greece by way of Durrës; in the port she met Andrea, and the two married without the king's consent, which Robert never forgave.

Years later he invited the couple to Naples on a pretext of reconciliation and had them executed. Their two sons, George and Karl, survived in Albania; Karl rose to be Prince of Albania, yet fought the Angevins all his life, unable to forgive his parents' killing.