Ruler · 1487 – 1546

Petru Rareș

Lived 1487 – 1546. Lord of Moldavia of Principality of Moldavia, 1527 – 1538 and 1 more term.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1487 – 1546; 59 years
In office: 16 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 29th and 32nd of 142 dated reigns · 1347 – 1862

25 before

Stephen the Great1457 – 1504

Bogdan III the One-Eyed1504 – 1517

Stephen IV of Moldavia1517 – 1527

Petru Rareș1527 – 1538

Stephen V of Moldavia1538 – 1540

Alexandru Cornea1540 – 1541

Petru Rareș1541 – 1546

Ilie II Rareș1546 – 1551

Ștefan VI Rareș1551 – 1552

Ioan Joldea1552

107 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 1527 – 1538 · 11 years · came to it aged 40 · term 1 of 2

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1538; they died in 1546

Reigned 1541 – 1546 · 5 years · came to it aged 54 · term 2 of 2

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1546, the year they died

Open in the atlas

Petru Rareș in the atlas: the article, every line they sat in, and the map in their years.
Analyse the succession of Principality of Moldavia: every reign, how each ended, and the numbers over them.
States of Europe, and every state with a page.

Wikidata Q249558 (CC0) · the reigns from Wikidata's P39 terms, the rulers' own articles read by grammar (sentences quoted above, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kokkonen & Sundell where they code the line · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.