Ruler · 1500 – 1568

Alexandru Lăpușneanu

Lived 1500 – 1568; monarch. Lord of Moldavia of Principality of Moldavia, 1552 – 1561 and 1 more term.

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Lived: 1500 – 1568; 68 years
In office: 13 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 1; Principality of Moldavia
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

Lord of Moldavia

Principality of Moldavia · the 36th and 39th of 142 dated reigns · 1347 – 1862

32 before

Ilie II Rareș1546 – 1551

Ștefan VI Rareș1551 – 1552

Ioan Joldea1552

Alexandru Lăpușneanu1552 – 1561

Iacob Heraclid1561 – 1563

Ștefan Tomșa1563 – 1564

Alexandru Lăpușneanu1564 – 1568

Bogdan IV of Moldavia1568 – 1572

John III the Terrible1572 – 1574

Peter the Lame1574 – 1577

100 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1552 – 1561 · 9 years · came to it aged 53 · term 1 of 2

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1561; they died in 1568

Reigned 1564 – 1568 · 4 years · came to it aged 65 · term 2 of 2

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: poison

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