Constantin Movilă
Constantin Movilă (around 1594 - July 1612 ) was Prince of Moldova in October 1607 and from December 1607 to November 1611 .
After the fall of Mihail Movilă - the son of Simion Movilă - Constantin, the son of Ieremia and Elisabeta, seized power in Iași . He was intensively supported by his mother and had close contacts with the Wallachian prince Radu Șerban and the Poles, which is why he was overthrown by the Ottomans at the same time as Șerban in December 1607. His successor on the Moldovan throne was the adventurer Ștefan Tomşa , who was appointed by the Nogay Tatars under Khan Temir on the orders of the sultan . The young Constantin escaped the Ottoman grasp with his mother Elisabeta by fleeing to their relatives in Poland in good time.
The Polish general Stefan Potocki (1568–1631) gathered an allied army with Poles, Wallachians and devoted Moldovans to bring Constantin Movila back to his throne in Suceava in early 1612.
When the coalition attacked Stefan Tomşa, it was defeated in the battle of "Cornul lui Sas" on the Prut (July 3rd / 13th 1612) by the Ottoman forces of the Tatar leader Khan Temir. Potocki and Constantin's younger brother Alexandru Movilă fell into captivity by the Tatars. The victors also captured Constantin Movilă to take him to their khan in the Budschak . On the way there he drowned while crossing the Nistru (Dniester) near Ocakow. Movilă is said to have only been 17 years old.
literature
- Xenopol, AD: Istoria Românilor din Dacia Traiană, Vol. 3, Bucharest 1888–93, pp. 489–91.
- Miron Costin: Moldauische Chronik 1593–1661, Grausame Zeiten in der Moldau, Styria Verlag Graz 1980, pages 62–67
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Movilă, Constantin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prince of Moldova |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1594 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after July 13, 1612 |