Grigore III Ghica

Grigore III Ghica (1724 – 12 October 1777) was twice the Prince of Moldavia between 29 March 1764 – 3 February 1767 and September 1774 – 10 October 1777 and of Wallachia: 28 October 1768 – November 1769. Biography He was the son of Alexandru Matei Ghica, with the position of dragoman, who was beheaded by the Sublime Porte and nephew of Grigore II Ghica's brother. Gregory III Ghica had a sister, Catherine (or Catinca), married to the Greek hetman Dumitru Sulgearoglu (also called Dimitrie Gheorghiadis Sulgearoglu). Catherine's descendants bore the name of her mother, Ghica, as Dora d'Istria states in her writing Gli Albanesi in Rumenia (1871): "[Costachi Ghica], Son of Catherine, sister of Gregory III, married to Demetrio Sutziaroglu. Catherine's descendants bear her mother's name." As a gentleman, he is an enemy of Austria and a friend of Russia, and the intrigues help him a lot in his policy towards the Turks. Internally, it has regularized the collection of offices and put an end to abuses. He set up a cloth factory in Chipirești, near Jijia and built a school near the Metropolitanate as a result of the reorganization of education, designed by him. Through the measures taken, he managed to bring the country to a relative well-being. A Phanariote ruler (domnitor) of the Ghica family, Grigore Ghica was assassinated by the Ottomans for opposing the annexation of the northwestern part of Moldavia (later named Bukovina) by the Habsburg Empire. Replaced with Gregory Callimachi in 1767, he won the throne of Wallachia, from where, on the occasion of the occupation of the Principalities by the Russians, he was taken prisoner and taken to Russia. He regained the throne of Moldavia after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1774. He was enthroned as lord in September 1774, but the appointing firm arrived in Iași on 9 October 1774. Austria secretly agreed with Russia and in 1775 obtained from the North Gate the west of Moldavia, which he would call "Bukovina", although the ruler and the boyars protested vehemently. Thus, the old Romanian lands, Chernivtsi, Storojineț, to a large extent Suceava with Putna of Stephen the Great and the chain of monasteries of the Romanian genius embedded in the Bucovina topic were annexed by Austria.