[4] Theodor I, who carried the high Byzantine Empire court title of Protosebastus, lived in troubled times.

The Serbian king Stefan Uroš II Milutin prepared for the submission of Albania.

As early as June 1319 he assumed the title of ruler of Rascia, Dioclea, Albania and the coastal sea coast.

[5] In order to counter the further advance of the enemies, who stormed the Angevin lands from all sides, tried Philip of Taranto from the House of Anjou from 1294 to 1332 his brother, the king Karl Martell of Hungary and the ban Wladin of Bosnia to win the league against the Serbs.

At the same time, Pope Johannes XXII admonished the "great" Albania, who had been surrendered to the Catholic Church in 1318, the Protosebastos Wilhelm Blevisti, and Theodor I. Muzaka, the Mentulo or Matarango, Count of Këlcyra (son of Theodor I), Andrea II Muzaka (son of Theodor I), Count Wladislaw Conovic of Dioclea and the sea coast, Count Wilhelm of Albania, Paulus (or Pal) Materanga (son-in-law of Theodor I) and the other barons of the country loyal to the Angevin rule (1266–1356) to persevere and, where possible, do what you can to regain the lost places.