Documente inedite ale familiei Goia (I). Ramura lui Sandu Goia
Unpublished documents of the Goia family (I). Sandu Goia’s lineage

Summary/Abstract: The Goia family is old in Moldavia, being documented in the second half of the 16th century. Its first representatives were part of the political elite of the country, they became rich and integrated into the solidarity network of the great nobility of the time. After one of them took part in the murder of the ruler Gaşpar Graţiani (1620), the family began to decline in the social hierarchy, by being removed from public office and by the uncontrolled sharing of wealth among descendants. At the beginning of the 18th century, several branches of the family had been separated from the common trunk of the family tree, living in the Roman and Suceava counties. The collection of documents from the Doljeşti Monastery, the foundation of one of the descendants, is by far the main source of information for researching the history of this lineage. The present study is a first step in this research and represents the biographical and prosopographical reconstruction of the members of the branch of Sandu Goia (son of the vassal Dumitrache Goia and Aniţa Tăutu) and his children: Catrina, Dumitrache (monk Dosoftei) and Ştefan. This historical reconstruction is based on the 24 unique documents published in full in the Appendix.

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