Alexander Mavrocordatos Delibey

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Alexander Mavrocordatos Delibey
Prince of Moldavia
Reign8 June 1782 – 12 January 1785
PredecessorConstantine Mourouzis
SuccessorAlexander Mavrocordatos Firaris
Born1742
Istanbul
Died27 March 1812
HouseMavrocordatos family
FatherConstantine Mavrocordatos
ReligionOrthodox

Alexander (I) Mavrocordatos (

Prince of Moldavia
from 1782 to 1785.

Life

Son of Constantine Mavrocordatos and Catherine Rosetti, he succeeded in May 1782 to Constantine Mourouzis, deposed by the Sublime Porte following the intrigues of the Russian ambassador in Constantinople. He owes his appointment to this same ambassador.

Mavrocordatos was dismissed in January 1785 at the request of Rajtschewitsch, consul of Austria in Moldavia, who complained to the Ottoman government to have been badly received by Mavrocordatos, despite being the representative of the

mouths of the Danube
, and each Empire advanced its pawns in the region.

According to Alexandre A.C. Sturdza, Mavrocordatos was known for his "versatility and difficult character" which gave rise to his Turkish nickname "Delibey".

Sources

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    Plon
    Paris (1913), p. 243-245.
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    Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale. (1920)
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  • Mihail Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des grandes familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, M.-D. Sturdza, Paris, chez l'auteur, 1983 ASIN B0000EA1ET.
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    (2008).
Preceded by
Prince of Moldavia

1782–1785
Succeeded by