Stephen V of Moldavia

Ştefan Lăcustă (Eng. " Stefan grasshopper ", also Ştefan V. ) (* 1508, † 1540 in Suceava ) was from 18 September 1538 to December 1540 for the Prince of Moldavia.

As the grandson of Stephan the Great and son of Alexandru it was at Lăcustă to the first Moldavian ruler who was not elected by the indigenous population, but directly by the Sultan of Turkey is determined ( in flagrant contradiction to the Treaty of 1511). Süleyman the Magnificent expelled during his expedition against the Moldavians Petru Rareş from the throne and verleibte the Ottoman Empire the Buceag one ( the south of the Moldavian Bessarabia, now Ukraine). After the fortification Tighina was on Nistru (Russian Dniester ) built.

As of February 1539 held Lăcustă excellent relations with Poland, but he feared the return of the deposed prince Petru Rareş, which he liked to get hold of. Although Lăcustă by the Turks demanded his extradition by the Transylvanian Prince Johann Zápoľský succeeded Rareş, even to go to Istanbul to protest there before the Sultan his innocence.

At the same time a devastating locust plague took place in Moldova, the prince Ştefan owes its seemingly strange nickname.

The current foreign policy of Prince Ştefan Lăcustă was marked only in appearance of loyalty to the Turkish Sultan. The princely boyar advisers Vartic was sent to the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation Ferdinand I to the case of a military intervention by the Habsburgs against the Turks to assure him the immediate assistance of the Moldovan troops.

Because of the loss of territory in the southeast of Moldova ( Buceag ) but he failed the prince to win the sympathies of the local boyars. Even those boyars who had previously betrayed Rareş, could not be drawn on Stefan's side. Only the Boyar Cozma reüssierte against the Turks, where he struck the garrison stationed in Tighina devastating.

When the " leadership " of the prince always merciless was (even boyars were during a feast mercilessly beheaded ), he eventually fell victim to a conspiracy and was killed on Prince headquarters in Suceava in his sleep. As Moldovan rulers followed him the Hatman Alexandru Cornea.

Swell

• Nicolae Iorga: history of the Romanian people as part of its state formations. Gotha 1905, pp. 381f

• Man
• Prince ( Moldova )
• Born in 1508
• Died in 1540