Maria Voichița

Doamna Maria Voichița (1457 – 26 February 1511) was a Princess consort of Moldavia (1480–1511), daughter of Radu III the Handsome and a niece of Vlad the Impaler. She was regarded to have an influence upon the policy of her spouse, Prince Stephen III of Moldavia, whom she married in 1478.

Maria Voichița

She had two children:

Bogdan III the One-Eyed, Voivode of Moldavia.
Maria Cneajna,[1] who married into the House of Sanguszko.[2]

She is buried in the Putna Monastery, Romania.

References

Eagles, Jonathan (2014). Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism: Moldova and Eastern European History. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78076-353-8.
Sacerdoțeanu, Aurelian (1969). "Descălecători de țară, dătători de legi și datini (II)". Magazin Istoric. III (1): 37–47. ISSN 0541-881X.

George Marcu (coord.), Dicționarul personalităţilor feminine din România, Editura Meronia, București, 2009.

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