Moreover, Komita's older sister and Maria's aunt, Andronika Arianiti was Skanderbeg's wife, further tying their connection to the Lord of Albania.

They were welcomed into the court of Queen Joanna of Aragon and in 1483, when she was 22 years old, Maria was married to Giacomo Alfonso Ferrillo, Count of Muro.

In 2012, Italian historian Raffaele Glinni published two articles in which he claims Maria as the illegitimate daughter of Vlad III of Walachia.

[10] In reality, the Misia ruled by Gojko Balsha was a coastal region between the cities of Kruja and Lezha in modern Albania.

No historical source ever mentions any meeting having taken place between Komita Arianiti and Vlad the Impaler, nor any illegitimacy rumors concerning Maria Balsha's paternity, prior to Glinni's publication.