This is a list of monarchs of Moldavia, from the first mention of the medieval polity east of the Carpathians and until its disestablishment in 1862, when it united with Wallachia, the other Danubian Principality, to form the modern-day state of Romania.
See also
- List of rulers of Wallachia
Notes
Dynastic rule is hard to ascribe, given the loose traditional definition of the ruling family (on principle, princes were chosen from any branch, including a previous monarch's bastard sons – being defined as os de domn – "of domn marrow", or as having hereghie – "heredity" (from the Latin hereditas); the institutions charged with the election, dominated by the boyars, had fluctuating degrees of influence). The system itself was challenged by usurpers, and became obsolete with the Phanariote epoch, when monarchs were appointed by the Ottoman Sultans. Between 1821 and 1862, various systems combining election and appointment were put in practice. Moldavian monarchs, like Wallachian and other Eastern European monarchs, bore the titles of Voivode or/and Hospodar (when writing in Romanian, the term Domn (from the Latin dominus) was used).
Most monarchs did not use the form of the name they are cited with, and several used more than one form of their own name; in some cases, the monarch was only mentioned in foreign sources. The full names are either modern versions or ones based on mentions in various chronicles.
The list is brought up to date for the first monarchs, following the documented studies of Ștefan S. Gorovei and Constantin Rezachevici.
List
Princes of Moldavia
House of Dragoș
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| 100px || Dragoș I|| c. 1347–c. 1354 || Described as an early monarch of Moldavia, he was sent there as a representative of king Louis I of Hungary to establish a line of defense against the Golden Horde, where he ruled.
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| 100px || Sas|| c. 1354–c. 1363 || son of Dragoș
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| || Balc || c. || son of Sas
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House of Bogdan-Mușat
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| align="center" | Bogdan I the Founder
| align="center" | c. 1359–1367
|align="center"| Maria<br/>three children|| Deposed Sas
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| align="center" | Peter I
| align="center" | 1367 – July 1368
|align="center"| Unmarried||Grandson of Bogdan I, rule not universally accepted by modern historians.
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| align="center" | Lațcu
| align="center" | July 1368 – 1375
|align="center"|Anna<br/>before 1372<br/>one child|| Son of Bogdan I, deposed Petru I