Ciubăr Vodă


Ciubăr Vodă was a Hungarian aristocrat of Croatian origin, a commander of the John Hunyadi’s troops sent to support Petru III to replace the Roman II. Ciubar Voda governed Moldova for about two months after unexpected death of Peter the III before October 10 and by the end of December 1448 (possibly the end of January 1449, as in February 1449, Alexăndrel took the Moldavian throne for the first time. He is only mentioned by Grigore Ureche, as ruler of Moldova for two months after Petru III of Moldavia.

Position of Nicolae Iorga

According to Nicolae Iorga, Ciubăr Vodă is a prince who ruled for two months 1448-1449. Iorga opined that Ciubăr/Csupor was Alexander the Good’s relative and claimed that otherwise the Moldovan boyars would not have accepted a Hungarian commander, but only an individual of princely kin. However we have no proof that Csupor was anything more than a caretaker for the throne, most likely on behalf of John Hunyadi as Petru III of Moldavia had married John's sister just before being placed on the throne. Iorga also insisted that Ciubar is not a nickname, but a name of a court marshal Ciope, who lived around 1451, whose name would have given the forms of the name Ciopel, Ciopor, Ciobâr, which would mean "the Devil". However, his opinion was not shared by Romanian historians. In Hungarian, as well as in Croatian and Romanian "csupor" means "a pot".