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Aranites against each other, which avoided the fratricidal duel, as well as ensured the victory of his army. He retreated first to Macedonia and then to Constantinople, where he was left ignored by the Ottoman authorities. Soon thereafter, he went back to Skanderbeg, who pardoned and reinstated him. He got back the position of a commander of the Albanian border troops. According to Gjon Muzaka, it was Skanderbeg who wanted for Moisi to return and called him back, while Moisi seeing that he was not safe with the Sultan, and in order not to increase the bloodshed of the Christians returned.
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One year later he returned at the head of a fifteen thousand men-strong army, but was promptly defeated by
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172:'s sister Maria. The couple had two children. His son Çezar Arianiti (Cesare Comnino Arianiti) had one daughter named Giovanna Comminata, who lived in Naples and was married to patrician Paulo Brancaccio. His daughter Despina was married to Stanisha Konti, brother of
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168:. His mother was a noblewoman named Goisava, after whom Gjergj Arianiti's second born daughter was named. In 1445 he married Zanfina Muzaka after her divorce with Karl-Muzakë Thopia, who went on to marry
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