Vasile Lupu

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Vasile Lupu
Maria Lupu
FatherNeculai
ReligionOrthodox
The Coat of arms of Vasile Lupu.

Lupu Coci, known as Vasile Lupu (Romanian pronunciation:

Voivode of Moldavia of Albanian and Greek
origin between 1634 and 1653. Lupu had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated intrigues and managed to hold it for twenty years. Vasile was a capable administrator and a brilliant financier and was soon almost the richest man in the Christian East. His gifts to Ottoman leaders kept him on good terms with the Ottoman authorities.

Early life

The Coci family settled in

Arbănași (modern Romania).[12][page needed] Vasile Lupu received Greek education.[13]

Reign

Romanian Athaeneum
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Lupu had held a high office under

Prince Matei Basarab and the powerful Pasha of Silistra, Abaza Mehmed Pasha). Despite having led the rebellion against Greek influence, Lupu maintained strong ties to the Greeks and the Patriarchate of Constantinople.[14]
He pursued a Greek-Orthodox policy and sought to become the new Byzantine Emperor.

His rule was marked by splendor and pomp. He was a builder of notable monuments (the unique

patron of culture and arts founding the Academia Vasiliană
). These acts also had negative effects, the tax burdens being increased to an intolerable level.

After relations between the two Princes soured, Vasile Lupu spent much of his reign fighting the Wallachian Matei Basarab, trying to impose his son Ioan to the throne in Bucharest. His army was defeated twice in 1639 at Ojogeni and Nenișori and a third time, at Finta, in 1653. After this last battle, the Moldavian boyars rebelled and replaced him with the Wallachian favorite, Gheorghe Ștefan. Vasile Lupu went into exile and died while being kept in Turkish custody at Yedikule prison in Constantinople.

Lupu built a strong alliance with hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, arranging the marriage of his own daughter Ruxandra Lupu to Khmelnytsky's son Tymofiy (Tymish), who went on to fight alongside Lupu at Finta.

Vasile Lupu made alliances with Ottoman officials, in particular with former

Grand Vizier Tabanıyassı Mehmed Pasha. Lupu's association with the latter relied on their common Albanian origin.[15]

Laws and reforms

Vasile Lupu introduced the first codified printed law in Moldavia, the Carte Românească de învățătură ("

customs
and almost identical to its Wallachian contemporary equivalent.

Endowments

Lupu founded churches and monasteries throughout his lands. The liturgical language was described as "vulgar Greek" by Robert Bargrave who travelled the lands.[17]

Education

Lupu founded the Princely High School of Trei lerarhi Church in 1640, which taught in Greek and Latin.[18]

Family

The Coci last name was carried on by Stefan Coci (son of Vasile Lupu) who married the daughter of Petru Rareș, a voivode of Moldavia, but also by the descendant of Gabriel Coci named Hatmanul. The descending line of Coci intersects with aristocratic families from Moldavia, old families such as the Bucioc, Boulesti, and Abazesti.

Vasile Lupu in a Moldovan stamp of 1999

Representation in postal stamps

Vasile Lupu is depicted in a stamp issued by the Post of Moldova in 1999 and in a stamp of Romania issued in 2019.

See also

References

  1. ^ Revista istorică. 1993. Vasile Lupu se trage din familia Coci, venită în Țările Române încă din prima jumătate a secolului al XVI-lea, era al treilea fiu al lui Nicolae Coci, ...
  2. ISBN 978-1-107-51158-3
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  3. ^ Runciman 1985, p. 341.
  4. ^ Ioan Bolovan (1997). A History of Romania. Center for Romanian Studies. p. 287. Voivode of Moldavia was an Albanian from Arbanasi, probably with distant origin from Epirus, a region of mixed population. The majority of the population of the famous region is Greek and Albanian, but there live also thousands of "real Epirotes", the Romanian-speaking Vlachs of Pindus. This has served as a base for fabrications according to which Lupu was a Greek or a Vlach (Aromanian). Some Romanian historians explain that Epirote Vlachs are in fact Romanians and for this reason it is claimed Lupu was a Romanian. However, the most interesting fabrication is that Lupu was a Bulgarian because his father lived in Arbanasi, which today is part of Bulgaria.
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  9. ISBN 978-973-27-0205-5
    . Tot atît de sigur este faptul că Nicolae Coci a fost mare comis în Moldova (martie- aprilie 1593), pe timpul lui Aron vodă Tiranul, că apoi a trecut în Țara Românească, unde a fost mare postelnic (octombrie 1593 — 22 iulie 1594), apoi din nou ...
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  11. ISBN 978-1-78831-858-7
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  12. ISBN 978-973-668-014-4
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  13. ISBN 978-1-57607-800-6
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  14. ISBN 978-0-8108-5820-6
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  15. ^ Kármán, Gábor (2020). Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage. Brill. p. 203.
  16. ISBN 978-973-7784-12-4
    . In the legislative field, he managed to print the Imperial Code of Laws in 1646 (Vasile Lupu's Code, or the Romanian Book of Learning).
  17. ISBN 978-0-904180-63-3
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  18. ISBN 978-0-8247-2026-1
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Preceded by
Prince/Voivode of Moldavia

April 1634–April 1653 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Prince/Voivode of Moldavia

May–June 1653 		Succeeded by
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