Mihail Movilă (? – 1608) was the prince of Moldavia for a short time in 1607.

Life

He was the elder son of Simion I Movilă and became prince of Moldova after the death of his father in September 1607. by his cousin

Constantin Movilă Constantin Movilă (1594 – July 1612) is the Prince of Moldavia from 1607 to 1611. The son of Prince Ieremia Movilă and driven by his mother, the ambitious Erszébet Csomortany de Losoncz, he twice seized the Moldovan throne at the expense of ...

, pushed by his mother, the ambitious Erzsébet Csomortany de Losoncz, widow of Prince

Ieremia Movilă Ieremia Movilă ( pl, Jeremi Mohyła uk, Єремія Могила), (c. 1555 – 10 July 1606) was a Voivode (Prince) of Moldavia between August 1595 and May 1600, and again between September 1600 and July 10, 1606. Rule A boyar of the Movi ...

. He tried to regain his throne in November 1607 but was forced into exile the following month in the court of

Radu Șerban Radu Șerban (? – 23 March 1620) was a Wallachian nobleman who reigned as the principality's ''voivode'' during two periods from 1602 to 1610 and during 1611. A supposed descendant of Neagoe Basarab, he attained high office during the reign of ...

in Wallachia, where he eventually died.

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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (; March 23, 1847, Iaşi – February 27, 1920, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, professor, economist, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is the Romanian historian cred ...

''Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane : Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'union des principautés''. E Leroux Paris (1896) *

Nicolas Iorga Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

''Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale''. (1920) * Constantin C. Giurescu & Dinu C. Giurescu, ''Istoria Românilor Volume III (après 1606)'', Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, București, 1977. * Jean Nouzille ''La Moldavie, Histoire tragique d'une région européenne'', Ed. Bieler, . * * Rulers of Moldavia 1608 deaths Year of birth unknown People of the Long Turkish War {{Romania-bio-stub