Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameParvu (Matei) Cantacuzene Lord of Oltenia
Birth?
Death1769
MemoKilled in battle.
Note 1Grand Spatar. Grand Logofat. Grand Ban (Lord). First husband of Helen Crisoscoleo. Ambushed and killed with all his men of a Russian detachment ambushed by Ottoman troops. Did he have a brother Mihai, a spathar, who succeeded him?
Note 2Briefly served as an officer in Russia's Imperial Army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. Strongly anti-Ottoman.
Note 3He and his brother formed a small group of pro-Russian boyars in Bucharest, and welcomed Russian troops entering the city in November 1769.
Note 4together with polkovnik Nazary Alexandrovych Karazin (the father of Vasyl Karazin), organized a group of volunteers and Cossacks which...
Note 5on November 16, attacked and defeated the small Ottoman garrison and captured the ruling prince of Wallachia, Grigore III Ghica (who was later sent to Saint Petersburg).
Note 5Sturdza says Parvu was married to Helen Crisoscoleo but the Cantacuzene tree records one marriage only to Maria Paladi (or Palladi).
FlagsCantacuzene
FatherMatei (Parvu) Cantacuzene (?-1742)
MotherPauna Belizarie Rustea (?-?)
Other spousesMaria Palladi
SpouseHelen (Ioannis) Crisoscoleo, 5C8R
Birth?
Death?
Note 1Or Chrisoscoleo. Is it true that she married Parvu Cantacuzene which is recorded by Sturdza but not by the Cantacuzene family tree.
Flags***, Caradja, Ghika, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo
FatherIoannis ‘Ianaki’ (Iordaki) Crisoscoleo (->1768)
Mother---- (Lascar) Mamona (?-?)
Other spousesPrince Constantine (Alexander) Mavrocordato, 4C9R