Ștefan Petriceicu Explained

Ștefan Petriceicu
Succession:Prince of Moldavia
(1st reign)
Reign1:20 August 1672 – November 1673
Predecessor1:George Ducas
Successor1:Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino
Succession2:Prince of Moldavia
(2nd reign)
Reign2:December 1673 – 22 February 1674
Predecessor2:Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino
Successor2:Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino
Succession3:Prince of Moldavia
(3rd reign)
Reign3:25 December 1683 – March 1684
Predecessor3:George Ducas
Successor3:Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino
Father:Toader Petriceicu
Birth Date:before 1663
Death Date:1690
Religion:Orthodox

Ștefan Petriceicu (Romanian: Ștefan al XI-lea Petriceicu, died 1690) was three times Voivode of Moldavia (August 1672 – November 1673, December 1673 – February 1674, December 1683 – March 1684).

Reign

The son of a boyar, Chancellor (mare logofăt) Toader Petriceicu (d. 1663), Ștefan was elected by the nobility – with the approval of the Ottoman Empire – to succeed George Ducas in 1672. The Ottomans forced Petriceicu to support their campaign against Poland at the Battle of Khotyn in 1673, but later ousted him for siding with the Poles[1] in November 1673. He returned to power briefly before Dimitrie Cantacuzino replaced him a second time in February the following year. Having retaken power once again from George Ducas in December 1683, the Ottomans eventually replaced Petriceicu permanently with Cantacuzino in March 1684.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kamiński, Andrzej S. . Republic vs. Autocracy: Poland-Lithuania and Russia, 1686-1697. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute . 1993 . 052179269X.
  2. Book: Flaut, Daniel . After the Battle of Kahlenberg: the Romanians in Central and Eastern European Policy (1683 - 1684). Romanian Review of Eurasian Studies (6:1-2) . 2010.