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Moldavian princess (1457–1511)
Maria Voichița
Doamna Maria Voichița (1457 – 26 February 1511)
[1]
[2] was a Princess consort of
Moldavia (1480–1511).
[3]
[1]
Life
Born into the powerful
House of Drăculești , Maria was daughter of
Radu III the Handsome and his wife, Maria Despina.
[3] She was niece of
Vlad the Impaler .
She married Prince
Stephen III of Moldavia in 1478.
[3]
[4]
[5] This marriage linked Stephen to the ruling family of Wallachia, and opened the possibility that he might later claim that throne.
[6]
[7]
She was regarded to have an influence upon the policy of her spouse. Additionally, she was a patron of the arts and church; for example, she is recorded as having commissioned a manuscript for the monastery of Pătrăuți.
[8]
She is buried in the
Putna Monastery ,
Romania .
[9]
Issue
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISSN
2498-4884 .
^
Romania: Pages of History . AGERPRES Publishing House. 1986.
^ Johnstone, Pauline (1967).
The Byzantine Tradition in Church Embroidery . London.
^ Eagles, Jonathan (2014). Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism: Moldova and Eastern European History . I.B. Tauris.
ISBN
978-1-78076-353-8 .
^ Sacerdoțeanu, Aurelian (1969). "Descălecători de țară, dătători de legi și datini (II)". Magazin Istoric . III (1): 37–47.
ISSN
0541-881X .
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