Mihail Movilă (? – 1608) was the prince of Moldavia for a short time in 1607.

Mihail Movilă
Prince of Moldavia
(1st reign)
Reign24 September – October 1607
PredecessorSimion Movilă
SuccessorConstantin Movilă
Prince of Moldavia
(2nd reign)
ReignNovember – December 1607
PredecessorConstantin Movilă
SuccessorConstantin Movilă
Bornunknown
Died1608
Wallachia
DynastyMovilești
FatherSimion Movilă
MotherMarghita[1]
ReligionOrthodox

Life edit

He was the elder son of Simion I Movilă and became prince of Moldova after the death of his father in September 1607.[2]

He was thrown from the throne the following month[citation needed] by his cousin Constantin Movilă, pushed by his mother,[clarification needed] the ambitious Erzsébet Csomortany de Losoncz, widow of Prince Ieremia Movilă.[3]

He tried to regain his throne in November 1607 but was forced into exile the following month in the court of Radu Șerban in Wallachia, where he eventually died.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Alexandru Ioan Cuza university (2009, p. 221)
  2. ^ Kolodziejczyk (2011, p. 837)
  3. ^ "Uście (4)". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 12. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1892. p. 831.
  4. ^ Alexandru Ioan Cuza university (2009, pp. 221–222)

Sources edit

  • Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane : Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'union des principautés. E Leroux Paris (1896)
  • Nicolas Iorga Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale. (1920)
  • (in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu & Dinu C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor Volume III (après 1606), Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, București, 1977.
  • Jean Nouzille La Moldavie, Histoire tragique d'une région européenne, Ed. Bieler, ISBN 2-9520012-1-9.
  • Kolodziejczyk, Dariusz (22 June 2011). The Crimean Khanate and Poland-Lithuania: International Diplomacy on the European Periphery (15th-18th Century). A Study of Peace Treaties Followed by Annotated Documents. ISBN 978-9004191907.
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza university (2009). Medieval and Early Modern for Central and Eastern Europe. Al I Cuza University Press.
Preceded by Prince of Moldavia
September – October 1607
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prince of Moldavia
November – December 1607
Succeeded by