Ruxandra Lăpușneanu (1538 – 21 November 1570) was a princess consort of
Moldavia
Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic alphabet, Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and for ...
by her marriage to
Alexandru Lăpușneanu in 1564. Ruxandra was the daughter of
Peter IV Rareș and Princess
Elena Ecaterina Rareș (the second daughter of
Jovan Branković
Jovan Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Јован Бранковић; ; c. 1465 – 10 December 1502) was the titular Despot of Serbia from 1493 until his death in 1502. The title of despot was given to him by Hungarian king Vladislas II of Hungary. From 14 ...
of Serbia). From 1568 until 1570 she was regent in Moldavia on behalf of her son
Bogdan IV of Moldavia.
Ancestry
References
* George Marcu (coord.), Dicționarul personalităților feminine din România, Editura Meronia, București, 2009.
1538 births
1570 deaths
16th-century women rulers
16th-century Romanian people
Royal consorts of Moldavia
Rulers of Moldavia
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