Prince Constantine (Alexander) Ypsilanti of Moldavia & Wallachia & Elizabeth (Constantine) Vacarescu

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NamePrince Constantine (Alexander) Ypsilanti of Moldavia & Wallachia, 5C8R

Birth1760

Death1816, Kiev, Ukraine

Note 1Grand Drogoman of the Sultan 1796-99. Voivode (governor) of Moldavia (1797-1801 and 1806) and of Wallachia (various 1802-06). Participated in the reorganisation of the Turkish state. Escaped to Russia and died in exile in Kiev.

Note 2Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 says he joined a conspiracy to liberate Greece. On its discovery he fled to Vienna but was pardoned by the Sultan and made Hospidar of Moldavia (1799).

Note 3In 1805 he escaped to St Petersburg, returning to Bucharest in 1806 with about 20,000 Russians in another failed attempt to liberate Greece.

Flags***, Calvocoressi, Caradja, Giustiniani Pi, Mavrogordato, Maximo, Mourouzis, Query

FatherPrince Alexander (Ioannis) Ypsilanti of Moldavia (1726-1807)

MotherCatherine (Dimitrios) Mourouzis (?-?)

Other spousesRallou (Alexander) Callimachi, 6C7R

Marriageaft 1787

Married Memoi.e. presumably after the death of Rallou.

SpouseElizabeth (Constantine) Vacarescu

Birth1771

Death2 Nov 1866, Odessa, Ukraine

Note 1Sturdza sometimes calls her Catherine...

Note 2NB If the first wife Rallou died in 1787, then mother of most or all of these children must be Elizabeth. But another source claims Rallou died in 1797 in which case she may be the mother of most or all of them.

FlagsCantacuzene

FatherConstantine Vacarescu (?-?)

MotherElisabeth ‘Safta’ (Constantine) Kretulescu (?-?)

Children

1 MPrince Nicolas (Constantine) Ypsilanti, 6C7R

Birth?

Death1834, Odessa, Ukraine

2 MGregory (Constantine) Ypsilanti, 6C7R

Birth?

Death?

SpouseChariclea (Nicolas) Scanavi , 5C7R (?-1883)

Marriage?