Tanusio Thopia

1329–38) was an Albanian count that served Princes of Taranto Philip I and Robert, and Dukes of Durazzo John and Charles.

The rights of the Duchy of Durazzo (Durrës) and the Kingdom of Albania together were given to John of Gravina with a sum of 5,000 pounds of gold.

The Serbs were pressing hard in their direction and the Albanian nobles found a natural ally in the Angevins.

[11] According to Karl Hopf, Tanusio's son or brother Andrea, as told by Gjon Muzaka (fl.

1510), had fallen in love with the daughter of Robert of Naples when her ship, en route to the Principality of the Morea to be wed with the bailli, had stopped at Durazzo where they met.

Castle of Krujë served as the Capital of the Thopia family