Grigore Brâncoveanu

Grigore Brâncoveanu
caimacam
Born1767
DiedApril 27 1832
SpouseElizabeta 'Safta' Balș
IssueZoe Mavrocordato (adopted)
HouseBrâncoveanu
FatherEmanoil Brâncoveanu
MotherZoe 'Zoița' Sturdza

Grigore Brâncoveanu was a Caimacam and ruler of Wallachia in 1818.[1][2]

Biography

Born into the branch of an old Romanian House of Craiovești, as the son of Prince Emanoil Brâncoveanu (1750-1811) and his wife, Princess Zoe 'Zoița' Sturdza (b. 1753). In 1793, he married Elisabeta Balș (d. 1857).

Although the marriage remained childless, the pair adopted Elisabeta's niece, Princess Zoe Mavrocordato (1805-1892), who was sheduled to marry Grigore's distant cousin, Gheorghe Bibescu from Oltenia. In the early 1840s, Zoe turns out to be mentally imbalanced and the couple eventually divorced.

References

  1. ^ Taki, Victor (2021). Russia on the Danube: Empire, Elites, and Reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812–1834. Central European University Press. pp. 113, 124. ISBN 9789633863831.
  2. ^ Hentea, Călin (2007). Brief Romanian Military History. Scarecrow Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780810858206.
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