Tanusio Thopia

Tanusio Thopia was an Albanian count under the Angevins, holding lands in the Mat region. His family, one of the most powerful in Angevin Albania, vanishes from the record after 1274 until 1329, when Tanusio appears as one of the counts of Albania; in 1338 Angevin records call him Count of Matia.

He served the Angevin Princes of Taranto and Dukes of Durazzo. The Thopia, who had turned from Orthodoxy to Catholicism, held much of the land between the Mati and Shkumbin rivers by 1340.

A later tradition makes Andrea I Thopia his son or brother: Andrea abducted and married a natural daughter of King Robert of Naples and was executed with her. That would make Tanusio the grandfather or great-uncle of Karl Thopia, later Prince of Albania.