The Blinishti (incorrectly, Bleusi, Bleuisti, Bletisti, Blevisci[1]) were a medieval Albanian feudal family that held lands in modern northern Albania between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
The family governed a territory spanning from Gjadër in the west to Mali i Shejtit in the east, and from Fushë-Arrëz in the north to Ndërfanda in the south of their domain.
[3] The earliest attestation of the Blinishti comes from an Angevin document of 1274 outlining an agreement between Charles I of Anjou and a number of Albanian nobles.
His son, Gulielm, was given the position of Albania's marshal (marascallum regni albanie duximus ordinandum) by the Angevins on top of his older title of protosevastos given previously by the Byzantines.
[6] Following the Albanian rebellion against the Serbs in 1319-36, instigated by Pope John XXII, the Blinishti no longer appear in the historical record, their territory likely being split by the Dukagjini and Thopia families.