Mihai Suțu

Mihai Sutu (* 1730, † 1803) was thrice prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldavia once.

Related maternal side with the known Phanariotenfamilie the Mavrokordatos, Sutu practiced in the years 1782 and 1783 the office of dragoman (equivalent to a translator or interpreter ) from. After a brief exile on the island of Tenedos pardoned him, the Turkish Sultan and put him as a prince in Wallachia. But when in 1786 before there was a new Turkish - Austrian war, let the Sublime Porte him fall; his successor was named Nicolae Mavrogheni.

After the peace of šistov 1791, both the Ottomans and the Austrians from the Danubian principalities withdrew Sutu was once again extended to the hand of the Sultan in Bucharest. 1793 took the Sublime Porte a " prince exchange " before; as was held by the authorities in Istanbul this move for "useful", Sutu took over the steering state in Moldova, while the previous rulers in Iasi ( Jassy ), Alexandru Moruzi, new Wallachian prince was. 1795 took over from Alexandru Callimachi Sutu.

The third rule in Wallachia covered the years 1801 and 1802. The now 70 -year-old walked up to the final money-hungry despot who finally had to flee with his entire wealth to Transylvania. From there we drove him to Austria and finally to Russia, which he felt obliged in his heart. He spent the last months of life in Istanbul, where he died in poverty in 1803.

• Prince ( Moldova )
• Prince ( Wallachia )
• Born in 1730
• Died in 1803
• Man