Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino


Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino was Prince of Moldavia 1673, 1674 to 1675, and 1684 to 1685.

Life

Dumitraşcu Cantacuzène was the son of the Grand Treasurer Michel Cantacuzène and the great-grandson of Michel Cantacuzène "Chaïtanoglou", executed in 1578.
In 1663 he betrayed his kinsman and benefactor Constantin Cantacuzene in favor of Grigore I Ghica. He is then named three times to the throne of Moldavia by the Turks:
Dumitraşcu Cantacuzino fled to Constantinople where he lived until his death in 1686. He is, in Romanian and Moldavian history, the prototype of the "phanariote profiteur" who founded neither school nor hospice, only ruled 'for its exclusive benefit, acts unscrupulously and impoverishes the country.
From his union with a princess Ruxandra he left three children including: