President Prince Alexander (Nicolaos) Mavrocordato First President of Greece & Chariclea (Jacobus) Argyropoulo

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NamePresident Prince Alexander (Nicolaos) Mavrocordato First President of Greece, 5C8R

Birth3 Feb 1791, Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death6 Aug 1865, Egina, Greece/Hellenes

Note 1President of First National Greek Assembly. Prime Minister of Greece (1833, 1841, 1844, 1854). Ambassador to Paris 1850-54.

Note 2In 1812 he went to the court of his uncle loannes Caradja, hospodar of Walachia, with whom he passed into exile in Russia and Italy (1817). Member of the Hetairia Philiki and among the Phanariot Greeks who hastened to the Morea in 1821.

Note 3Persuaded Byron to join the Greek cause. Met the poet Shelley in Greece in 1820 who dedicated 'Hellas' to him. Taught Mary Shelley Greek.

Note 4Leader of the ‘English’ party (in opposition to the Greek ‘French’ and ‘Russian’ parties) he was identified particularly with constitutional government.

Note 5Alexandros Mavrokordatos Αλέξανδρος Μαυροκορδάτος

Note 5Did he have a daughter Harykla/Chariklea born 1836, died 1907? Lukasz Hoszowski says that his great-great grandfather, Jan Robert Hoszowski (1826-1892), married a Chariklea Mavrocordato whom he believes to have been a daughter or Prince Alexander...

Flags***, Caradja, Giustiniani Pi, GreekWarIndep, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Rosetti

FatherPrince Nicolaos (Alexander) Mavrocordato (1744-1818)

MotherPrincess Smaragda (Nicolae) Caradja (?-?)

Marriage20 Jan 1830, Athens, Greece/Hellenes

SpouseChariclea (Jacobus) Argyropoulo, 6C7R

Birth8 Sep 1808, Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Death3 May 1884, Paris, France

MemoAnother source says 13 May 1884.

BurialAthens, Greece

Flags***, Argyropoulo, Callimachi, Caradja, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Soutzo

FatherJacobus (Emmanuel) Argyropoulo (1774-1850)

MotherPrincess Mariora (Michael) Soutzo (~1759-1846)