Ștefan Rareș

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Petru Rareș with his wife, Ștefan and sister

Ștefan VI. Rareș also Ștefan cel Tânăr (* 1531 ; † September 1, 1552 in Cecora , today Țuțora ) was a prince of Moldova between June 11, 1551 and September 1, 1552.

biography

Gravestone of Ștefan Rareș in the Probota monastery

After the predecessor on the prince's throne, his brother Iliaș Rareș, had moved to Constantinople and wanted to convert to Islam (consummation on May 30, 1551), then was appointed Pasha of Silistra (Mehmed-Beg), he determined the only 20-year-old Ștefan on May 24, 1551 to the provincial administrator . On June 11th of that year, with the consent of the boyar , he was anointed as his successor. He was the second son of the voivode Petru Rareş from his marriage to the Serbian despot daughter Katharina Elena Brancovici (Brancović).

It was a chaotic rule both internally and externally. At first the relationship with Poland and Hungary seemed to flourish again. The Imperial Commissioner of Transylvania, General Giovanni Battista Castaldo, wrote to Emperor Ferdinand I in 1551 , saying that he had offered Stefan help so that he could keep himself on the throne. On September 27 of that year, the emperor instructed the general to send secret emissaries to Moldova to negotiate terms for an alliance, but only two days later it emerged that the prince had reconciled with his brother and now probably a pro-Ottoman one Politics.

Ștefan, surrounded by Turkish officials and courtiers, now led a life similar to that of the Ottoman rulers. Recently he was also constantly looking for quarrels with the Poles and Hungarians. Allied with the Turks, he crossed the Oituz pass to Transylvania , plundered and robbed through the Szeklerland and devastated the area around Sibiu . On his way back, however, he was intercepted by the troops of Castaldo and Stephan Báthory , who took all of his booty from him. The prince himself was just able to flee and save his life. In his delusional effort to clear the name of his apostate brother, he began a religious campaign of persecution against all non-Greek Orthodox people in the country, supported by the clergy. For example, he forced the Armenians to convert. Numerous Catholics and most of the boyars who sympathized with the Poles also left the country.

His authoritarian and very extravagant style increasingly aroused the displeasure of the other boyars. They started a conspiracy against him. They were supported by General Castaldo, who had not forgotten the hustle and bustle of Ștefans the year before. The prince was on a hunt and set up camp at the bridge of Țuțora on the Prut . On the night of September 1, 1552, his opponents attacked the royal tent and killed the ruler on the orders of the Austrian general. Subsequently, Rareș was hastily buried on the left side of the crypt of the church of the Probota Monastery , next to his father Petru, the donor of the sanctuary (1530), and his mother.

The inscription on the stone slab of the tomb says that his sister Ruxandra, daughter of Prince Petru Rareş and wife of voivod Alexandru Lăpuşneanu , had it made.

literature

  • Gheorghe Balş: "Bisericile moldoveneşti din veacul al XVI-lea", Bucureşti 1928
  • Constantin C. Giurescu: "Istoria Românilor Volumul II" (1352–1606), Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, București 1976
  • Constantin Rezachevici: "Cronologia critică a domnilor din Țara Românească și Moldova in anii 1324 - 1881, Volumul I", Editura Enciclopedică, București 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krista Zach, Cornelius R. Zach: "Modernization on installments in Romania: Claim, Implementation, Effect", Volume 90 of publications by the Institute for German Culture and History of Southeast Europe: Scientific series, Verlag IKGS, Munich 2004, p. 74 f.
  2. ^ Institute for Central European Studies (Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai"): "Colloquia: Journal of Central European History", Volumes 10-11, Verlag Presa universitară, Cluj-Napoca 2003, p. 13 f.
  3. ^ Institutul de Istorie N. Iorga: "Revista istorică", Volume 5, Issues 7-10, Editura Institutului, București 1994, pp. 797 ff.
  4. ↑ http://www.moldovenii.md/md/people/691
personal data
SURNAME Ștefan Rareș
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ștefan VI. Rareș; Ștefan cel Tânăr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Voivode of the Principality of Moldova
DATE OF BIRTH 1531
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1552
Place of death Cecora