Constantin Movilă

Constantin Movilă (1594 – July 1612) is the Prince of Moldavia from 1607 to 1611.[1] The son of Prince Ieremia Movilă and driven by his mother, the ambitious Erszébet Csomortany de Losoncz, he twice seized the Moldovan throne at the expense of his cousin Mihai Movilă, son of Simion I Movilă in 1607.[2]

Constantin Movilă
Prince of Moldavia (1st reign)
Reign	October 1607
Predecessor	Mihail Movilă
Successor	Mihail Movilă
Prince of Moldavia (2nd reign)
Reign	December 1607 – 20 November 1611
Predecessor	Mihail Movilă
Successor	Ștefan IX Tomșa
Born	1594
Died	July 1612 Wallachia
Dynasty	Movilești
Father	Ieremia Movilă
Religion	Orthodox

In 1610 he welcomed Prince Radu X Şerban of Wallachia who was exiled. The following year he was dethroned by Ştefan Tomşa, the second son of the ephemeral prince of Moldova, Ştefan VII Tomşa.

As a refugee in Poland, he attempted to regain the throne leading an army assembled by his Polish brothers-in-law.[3] Defeated at the Battle of Cornul lui Sas, he had to pass the Dniester river again, but once on the left side of the bank, he was captured by the Tatars. He escaped but then drowned in the river in July 1612 at the age of about 17[4]

References

1. Medieval and Early Modern for Central and Eastern Europe. Al I Cuza University Press. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
2. "Uście (4)". Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (in Polish). 12. Warszawa: Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego. 1892. p. 831.
3. Wasiucionek, Michal (2019). The Ottomans and Eastern Europe: Borders and Political Patronage in the Early Modern World. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781788318570. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
4. Wasiucionek, Michal (2019). The Ottomans and Eastern Europe: Borders and Political Patronage in the Early Modern World. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781788318570. Retrieved 28 October 2019.

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• Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane : Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'union des principautés. E Leroux Paris (1896)
• Nicolas Iorga Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale. (1920)
• (in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu & Dinu C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor Volume III (depuis 1606), Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, București, 1977.
• Jean Nouzille La Moldavie, Histoire tragique d'une région européenne, Ed. Bieler, ISBN 2-9520012-1-9.
• Gilles Veinstein, Les Ottomans et la mort (1996) ISBN 9004105050.
• Joëlle Dalegre Grecs et Ottomans 1453-1923. De la chute de Constantinople à la fin de l'Empire Ottoman, L'Harmattan Paris (2002) ISBN 2747521621.