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Callimachi family

Family tree of the Callimachi family

Callimachi, Calimachi, or Kallimachi (originally Calmaşul or Călmaşu) was a Moldavian-Greek Phanariote boyar and princely family, originating with a group of free peasants living in the Orhei area of Bessarabia. It still remains present today in modern Romania.

Members

  • Vasile Călmaşul: b. 1640, Landowner in Bucovina
  • Teodor Călmaşul: (1660–1740) vornic (headman) of Câmpulung, father of Ioan and Gavriil
  • Ioan Teodor Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1758–1761
  • Gavriil Callimachi: Orthodox monk, Metropolitan of Moldavia ?-1786
  • Grigore Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1761–1764; 1767–1769
  • Alexandru Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1795–1799
  • Scarlat Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1806; de jure only, under Imperial Russian occupation, 1807–1810; 1812–1819); Prince of Wallachia, 1821 de jure only – prevented from reaching his throne by Vladimirescu's Pandur uprising
  • Alexandros Kallimachis: Ottoman diplomat, governor of Samos Island 1850–1854
  • Scarlat Callimachi: communist activist

Sources

  • Nita Dan Danielescu. "Gavriil Callimachi, ctitorul Catedralei mitropolitane Sf. Gheorghe din Iasi" Ziarul Lumina, 2006-02-20
  • Narcis Dorin Ion. Castele, palate şi conace din România, 2003
  • Ghyka family website, genealogical tree [1]


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