Before this war Zeta was governed by Đurađ II Balšić. His wife Jelena Balšić was firmly opposed to his pro-Venetian policy and to his sales of Scutari, Drivast and other towns together with islands on Skadar Lake to Venetians in 1396. She did not like Venetian obstruction of the contacts between Zetan Orthodox Metropolitanate and Patriarchate of Peć, the fact they cut off Orthodox monasteries around Skadar Lake from their legally valid income and an aggressive trading policy which significantly reduced Zeta′s earnings. She had significant influence on the way her son Balša III governed Zeta after the death of Đurađ II. Even before the First Scutari War she was in dispute with Venetians about the jurisdiction of Zetan Orthodox Metropolitanate over the orthodox churches around river Bojana a
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