Alexandros Mavrokordatos

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Alexandros Mavrokordatos
Αλέξανδρος Μαυροκορδάτος
o.s.)
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byPetrobey Mavromichalis

Prime Minister of Greece
In office
12 October 1833 – 31 May 1834 (o.s.)
MonarchOtto
Preceded bySpyridon Trikoupis
Succeeded byIoannis Kolettis
In office
24 June 1841 – 10 August 1841 (o.s.)
Preceded byOtto
Succeeded byOtto
In office
30 March 1844 – 4 August 1844 (o.s.)
Preceded byKonstantinos Kanaris
Succeeded byIoannis Kolettis
In office
16 May 1854 – 29 October 1855 (o.s.)
Preceded byKonstantinos Kanaris
Succeeded byDimitrios Voulgaris
Personal details
Born(1791-02-11)11 February 1791
English Party
SpouseChariklia Argiropoulos
RelationsMavrokordatos family
Cantacuzino family
Caradja family
RelativesAlexander Mavrokordatos (great-great-grandfather)
Nicholas Mavrocordatos (great-grandfather)
Șerban Cantacuzino (great-grandfather)
Nicholas Caradja (grandfather)
John Caradja (uncle)
Charilaos Trikoupis (nephew)
EducationPhanar Greek Orthodox College
Alma materUniversity of Padua
OccupationRevolutionary
Politician
Military service
AllegianceGreece First Hellenic Republic
Greece Kingdom of Greece
Branch/service Hellenic Army
Battles/wars

Alexandros Mavrokordatos (

Phanariotes
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Biography

In 1812, Mavrokordatos went to the court of his uncle

Marseilles to buy arms and a ship to take him back to Greece.[3]

Mavrokordatos was a very wealthy, well educated man, fluent in seven languages, whose experience in ruling Wallachia led many to look towards him as a future leader of Greece.

Continental Greece), going first to the island of Hydra to secure the support of the Hydriots' warships and then to Missolonghi, where he supervised the building of the defensive works while using his wealth to create a network of patronage designed to secure him support from the western Rumeliot clans.[8] Mavrokordatos did not play the part of a national leader, and had created a deliberately complicated constitution largely to ensure that no one else could become a successful leader while he was off securing his power base in West Rumeli.[9] One observer commented about Mavrokordatos's tactics: "He imitates the cunning of the hedgehog who, they say, flattens his needles and makes himself thin to enter his burrow, and once inside fluffs them out again and becomes a ball of prickles to stop anyone else getting in".[9]

Alexandros Mavrokordatos by Peter von Hess.

He commanded the advance of the Greeks into western Central Greece the same year, and suffered a serious defeat at

First Siege of Missolonghi (November 1822 – January 1823).[2] At Peta, Mavokordatos wanted a victory by his philhellene units and his Greek soldiers trained by the German philhellene Karl von Normann-Ehrenfels to show the advantages of professional military training to the Greeks.[10] Mavorkordatos appointed Normann-Ehrenfels, formerly a captain in the Württemberg army his chief of staff.[10] At the Argos assembly in 1823, Mavrokordhatos did not seek office again, but had himself appointed as general secretary of the Executive, which made him responsible for the flow of paperwork both to and from the Executive.[11] In 1823, Mavokordatos supported the Senate in its dispute with the Executive dominated by supporters of his rival Theodoros Kolokotronis.[12] In 1824, Mavrokordatos welcomed Lord Byron to Greece and tried to persuade him to lead an attack on Navpaktos.[13] In 1824, Mavorokordhatos backed a plot by the American philhellene George Jarvis and the Scottish philhellene Thomas Fenton to murder his rival Odysseas Androutsos and Androutsos's brother-in-law Edward John Trelawny.[14]

Mavorokordhatos's English sympathies brought him, in the subsequent strife of factions, into opposition to the

Petros Mavromichalis), he was compelled to withdraw from affairs until February 1825, when he again became a Secretary of State. The landing of Ibrahim Pasha followed, and Mavrocordatos again joined the army, barely escaping capture in the disaster at Sphacteria, on 9 May 1825, on board the ship Ares.[2]

After the

Premier.[2]

From 1834 onwards, he was Greek envoy at

Russian party. Going into opposition, he distinguished himself by his violent attacks on the Kolettis
government. In 1854-1855 he was again head of the government for a few months.

He died in Aegina on 18 August 1865.[2]

Family tree

Nicolae Caradja
Smaragda Caradja

References

  1. Old Style
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  2. ^ a b c d e  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mavrocordato s.v. Prince Alexander Mavrocordato". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 917.
  3. ^ a b c Brewer 2011, p. 127.
  4. ^ Brewer 2011, pp. 127–128.
  5. ^ Brewer 2011, p. 128.
  6. ^ Brewer 2011, p. 130.
  7. ^ Brewer 2011, p. 133.
  8. ^ Brewer 2011, pp. 133–134.
  9. ^ a b Brewer 2011, p. 134.
  10. ^ a b Brewer 2011, p. 146.
  11. ^ Brewer 2011, pp. 184–185.
  12. ^ Brewer 2011, p. 191.
  13. ^ Brewer 2011, p. 207.
  14. ^ Brewer 2011, p. 266.

Works cited


Political offices
New title
President of the Executive

15 January 1822 – 26 April 1823 (o.s.) 		Succeeded by
Petros Mavromichalis
Preceded by Prime Minister of Greece
12 October 1833  – 31 May 1834 (o.s.) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Greece
24 June  – 10 August 1841 (o.s.) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Greece
30 March – 4 August 1844 (o.s.) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Prime Minister of Greece
16 May 1854 – 29 September 1855 (o.s.) 		Succeeded by


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