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- Bogdan II was the father of the Stephen the Great. He had a very good relationship with Iancu de Hunedoara, who supported his accession to the throne. He was married to Doamna Oltea (Lady Oltea), who became a nun under the name of Maria. She died on November 4, 1465, and was buried at the Probota Monastery of Suceava County.
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Bogdan II of Moldavia. Bogdan II (1409 – 17 October 1451) was a prince of Moldavia from October 12, 1449, to October 17, 1451. Family. According to some historians, he was the bastard of Alexander the Good, by an unknown mother. On the contrary, according to the others, he was the brother of Alexander the Good.
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Son of Bogdan II. In his reign Moldavia reaches its zenith. Bogdan III The One-Eyed: 2 July 1504 – 22 April 1517 Anastasia 1510 no children Ruxandra of Wallachia 21 July 1513 no children: son of Ștefan III the Great; Regency of Luca Arbore, gatekeeper of Suceava (22 April 1517 – 1523) Son of Bogdan III; also called Ștefăniță. Stephen ...
The House of Bogdan, commonly referred to as the House of Mușat, was the ruling family which established the Principality of Moldova with Bogdan I (c. 1363–1367), giving the country its first line of Princes, one closely related with the Basarab rulers of Wallachia by several marriages through time.
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- Bogdan I of Moldavia
Jul 2, 2018 · When Stephen was just nineteen, his father, Prince Bogdan II of Moldavia, was murdered by the latter’s bastard half-brother, and Stephen was forced to escape with his cousin, Vlad Dracula Ţepeş (well known in western literature as Dracula), via the famous Borgo Pass.
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Geographically, Moldavia is defined by the Carpathian Mountains to the West, the Cheremosh River to the North, the Dniester River to the East and the Danube and Black Seato the South. The Prut River flows approximately through its middle from north to south. Of early 15th century Moldavia, the biggest part is located in Romania (42 percent), follow...
The original and short-lived reference to the region was Bogdania, after Bogdan I, the founding figure of the principality. The names Moldavia and Moldovaare derived from the name of the Moldova River, however the etymology is not known and there are several variants: 1. a legend featured in Cronica Anonimă a Moldovei links it to an aurochs hunting...
Moldavian fifteenth century battle flagCoat of arms of the Prince of Moldavia, in the Wijsbergen arms bookCoat of arms of the principality of Moldavia, at the Cetăţuia Monastery in IaşiCoat of arms of the Prince of Moldavia, on the Suceava bellEarly history
In the early thirteenth century, the Brodniks, a possible Slavic-Vlach vassal state of Halych, were present, alongside the Vlachs, in much of the region's territory (towards 1216, the Brodniks are mentioned as in service of Suzdal). On the border between Halych and the Brodniks, in the 11th century, a Viking by the name of Rodfos was killed in the area by Vlachs who supposedly betrayed him. In 1164, the future ByzantineEmperor Andronicus I Comnenus, was taken prisoner by Vlach shepherds aroun...
Foundation of the principality
Later in the thirteenth century, |King Charles I of Hungary attempted to expand his realm and the influence of the Roman Catholic Church eastwards after the fall of Cuman rule, and ordered a campaign under the command of Phynta de Mende (1324). In 1342 and 1345, the Hungarians were victorious in a battle against Tatars; the conflict was resolved by the death of Jani Beg, in 1357). The Polish chronicler Jan Długosz mentioned Moldavians (under the name Wallachians) as having joined a military e...
Early Muşatin rulers
The principality of Moldavia covered the entire geographic region of Moldavia. In various periods, various other territories were politically connected with the Moldavian principality. This is the case of the province of Pokuttya, the fiefdoms of Cetatea de Baltă and Ciceu (both in Transylvania) or, at a later date, the territories between the Dniester and the Bug Rivers. Petru I profited from the end of the Hungarian-Polish union, and moved the country closer to the Jagiellon realm, becoming...
For much of its history, Moldavia was part of a buffer-zone between different civilizations and cultures, including the Byzantine, Ottoman, Russian and those of such European states and powers as Austria, Poland and Hungary. Throughout Moldavia’s history, territory has been gained and lost due to conquest, diplomacy and occupation, and has not surv...
Denize, Eugen. 2004. Stephen the Great and his reign. Bucharest, RO: Romanian Cultural Institute Publishing House. ISBN 9789735774035.Dima, Nicholas. 1991. From Moldavia to Moldova: the Soviet-Romanian territorial dispute. East European monographs, no. 309. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs. ISBN 9780880332057.East, W. Gordon. 1973. The union of Moldavia and Wallachia, 1859; an episode in diplomatic history. New York, NY: Octagon Books. ISBN 9780374924508.Lugosz, Jan, Maurice Michael, and Paul Smith. 1997. The annals of Jan Długosz: an English abridgement. Chichester, UK: IM. ISBN 9781901019001.Who was Bogdan II of Moldavia? Bogdan II was the Prince of Moldavia between October 12, 1449 and October 17, 1451, when he was assassinated by Petru Aron. The assassination put Moldavia into a civil war which lasted until his son Stephen gained the Moldavian throne in 1457.
His father Bogdan II had ruled Moldavia for two years (1449 to 1451) before being killed in a stealthy raid led by Stephen's uncle, Petru Aron. Bogdan II was attending a wedding of one of his boyars (nobles)—who apparently was in collusion with Petru Aron—and the surprise was complete.
