Dr & Count Prince Alexander (Nicolaos) MAVROCORDATO Phanar Branch & Princess Sultana (Ioannis) Crisoscoleo

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NameDr & Count Prince Alexander (Nicolaos) MAVROCORDATO Phanar Branch, 1C12R

Birth1636, Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

MemoArgenti says 7 Nov 1641 Wikipedia says 1637.

Death23 Dec 1709, Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

MemoWikipedia says 1719.

Burial1709, Agia Paraskevi (Sainte Vendredi des Céramistes), Hassikeui, Istanbul, Turkey

OccupationDoctor of medicine from Bologna University. Chief Drogoman to the Ottoman Sultan from 1673. Much employed in negotiations with Austria. Drew up the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699). Secretary of State and Count of the Holy Roman Empire.

Note 1The variant spelling Mavrocordato (rather than Mavrogordato) is here first attributed to Alexander (for want of better evidence of its origin). Studied medicine and philosophy in Padua and wrote many scientific works.

Note 2Doctor of medicine from Bologna University. Drogoman to the Ottoman Sultan from 1673. Much employed in negotiations with Austria. Drew up the Treaty of Karlowitz (1699). Secretary of State and Count of the Holy Roman Empire.

Note 5In his history of Chios, Alexander M Vlasto says that Alexander attended various Italian universities and in 1664 wrote a paper on the circulation of blood and practised as a doctor and lecturer in Constantinople.

Note 3His authority was supreme at the court of Mustapha ll along with Hussein Kupruli and Rami Pasha. He did much to ameliorate conditions for the Christians in Turkey. Argenti describes him as ‘L’Exaporite’ and a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1699.

Note 4Disgraced in 1703 but recalled to court by Sultan Ahmed lll. He left some historical, grammatical treatises which Britannica regards as of little value!

Note 5He started a princely branch of the Mavrocordatos family through his marriage. He spoke Greek, Slavonian, Latin, Italian, French, Turkish, Persian and Arabic.

Note 5Presumably he is the person at the head of a hand-drawn family tree (see Romanian state historical archives) with sons: Scarlet (no issue), Nicola/Nicholas ‘Voda’ and Jean/Ioannis ‘Voda’; + daughters: Elena/Helen and Roxandra.

Note 5Wikipedia says he is the son of Pandely (of Chios) & Loxandra (“one-eyed” and daughter of Scarlato of Constantinople) and that he wrote on circulation of blood in 1664.

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

FatherNicolaos (Laurentios) Mavrogordato (1599-1652)

MotherPrincess Ruxandra (Scarlatos) Beglitzi de Scarlati (1610-1684)

Marriage1670, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

SpousePrincess Sultana (Ioannis) Crisoscoleo

Birth1640

Death11 Sep 1694, Phanar, Constantinople, Turkey/Byzantium

Note 1Or Chrisoscoleo/Chrysoscoleos. Wikipedia says she was “a Moldavian princess, a granddaughter of Prince Alexandru Iliaş and Moldavia (a member of the Muşatin family)”

FatherIoannis Crisoscoleo (?-?)

MotherPrincess Cassandra (Alexander) Ilias of Bassaraba (?-?)

Children