Bogdan IV of Moldavia

Bogdan IV (* 1553, † 1574 in Moscow) was from March 1568 to February 1572 voivode of Moldavia.

Bogdan was just 15 years old in the murder of his father Prince Alexandru Lapusneanu. For some time his mother Ruxandra took over the custody of their minor son. In foreign policy, this was entirely on the side of Poland, he took later a Polish nobleman as a wife. This very clear statement came many of the Moldavian boyars in front of the head, especially the fear of a Catholic missionary wave made ​​in the Orthodox country around. The opposition was directed against Bogdan soon before the boyar Jeremiah Golia Cernăuteanul.

When Bogdan finally - forcibly - staying in Poland, the boyars complained to the Sublime Porte. This took the concerns of the complainant seriously and established as a new Moldovan ruler Ioan Voda cel Viteaz ( Prince Johann of the Brave ).

A little later, Bogdan tried with Polish help to regain the throne. This attempt failed. Two years drew the ousted ruler of a European Fürstenhof to another, always in search of allies. In July 1574 he died before the age of 21 in Moscow.

Source

  • Nicolae Iorga: history of the Romanian people as part of its state formations. Gotha 1905, Vol I, p 394/95
  • Prince
  • Moldovans
  • Romanian
  • Born in 1553
  • Died in 1574
  • Man
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