The letter which mentions Kastriot of Kanina was sent by Alexander Komnenos Asen to the Ragusan senate on September 2, 1368.
Those listed included the two voivodes (military commanders), Prodan and Mikleush, Branilo kephale of Valona, Kastriot of Kanina, Rajče, master of court (dvorodzica), Ujedja, Asen's cup-bearer, logothete Gjurica, the two judges, Stamati and Abrad and other figures.
1400), John Fine considered it "probable" that this Kastriot was an ancestor of Gjon Kastrioti and Aleks Buda tried to bridge the geographical discrepancy between the Kastriot of Kanina who lived in southern Albania and the Kastrioti who were active in north-central Albania by arguing that after the fall of the Balšić, they returned to their ancestral lands in the Dibër valley.
[8][9][10] In contemporary historiography, the figure recorded as Kastriot of Kanina in 1368 is considered to be unrelated to the Kastrioti family.
[5] The Kastrioti remained absent from archival records in comparison to other noble families until their first historical appearance at the end of the 14th century.